JD(U) likely to elect new head of legislature party at Patna meet on April 20

The JD(U) is expected to elite its caller legislature person connected April 20 pursuing the resignation of Nitish Kumar arsenic Chief Minister and his consequent replacement by the BJP’s Samrat Choudhary, who took oath arsenic Chief Minister connected April 15. The JD(U) legislature enactment gathering is to instrumentality spot successful Patna astatine Mr. Kumar’s caller code 7, Circular Road. The person of JD-U legislature enactment volition play an important relation successful the contiguous NDA authorities led by Mr. Choudhary. Mr. Kumar was, earlier, enactment person successful the State legislature.

Since Mr. Kumar’s resignation arsenic Chief Minister connected April 14, the enactment station has been vacant. Speculation is rife that elder person Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, presently 1 of 2 Deputy Chief Ministers from the JD(U), could beryllium elected the legislature enactment leader. Mr. Choudhary, 69, seven–term MLA from Sarainranjan constituency successful Samastipur district, is considered precise adjacent to Nitish Kumar. Party sources told The Hindu, that the different Deputy CM, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, 79, who is simply a nine-term MLA from Supaul constituency, is considered a little apt imaginable due to the fact that of his failing health.