Bihar Floor Test LIVE updates: CM Nitish Kumar wins trust vote amid Opposition walkout

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• 12 Feb 2024, 03:41 PM

  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's govt wins floor test after 129 MLAs support resolution

   

  WATCH  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's government wins Floor test after 129 MLAs support the resolution.
  
  The opposition walked out from the State Assembly. pic.twitter.com/Xr84vYKsbz

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

   

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 03:40 PM

  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's government wins floor test after 129 MLAs support him.

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 03:27 PM

  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addresses the State Assembly ahead of the Floor Test

   

  WATCH | Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addresses the State Assembly ahead of the Floor Test of his government today. pic.twitter.com/hk48WLeRdy

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

   

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 02:23 PM

  Tejashwi Yadav targets Nitish in Assembly

  "The people of Bihar want to know why you keep switching camps," Tejashwi Yadav targeted Nitish Kumar in the Bihar Assembly.

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 02:22 PM

  Former Bihar Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav says, "I feel bad for JDU MLAs because they will have to go among the public and answer. If someone asks you why Nitish Kumar took oath 3 times, what will you say? Earlier you used to criticise them (BJP) and now you are praising them, what will you say? We (RJD) will say that we have given jobs."

  #WATCH | Bihar Floor Test: Former Bihar Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav says, "I feel bad for JDU MLAs because they will have to go among the public and answer. If someone asks you why Nitish Kumar took oath 3 times, what will you say? Earlier you used to criticise them… pic.twitter.com/8ZTkpUHipx

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 01:24 PM

  No-confidence motion against Bihar Assembly Speaker and RJD leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary passed in the State Assembly.  

  125 members voted in favour of the resolution; 112 against.

  #WATCH | No-confidence motion against Bihar Assembly Speaker and RJD leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary passed in the State Assembly.
  
  125 members voted in favour of the resolution; 112 against. pic.twitter.com/GOiNI6oIhR

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 10:47 AM

  Former Bihar CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) leader Jitan Ram Manjh also reached Bihar Assembly.

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 10:47 AM

  Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav arrives at the state Assembly in Patna.

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 10:17 AM

  Bihar Assembly Speaker and RJD leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary arrives at the Bihar Assembly in Patna, ahead of the floor test of the NDA government led by CM Nitish Kumar.

  #WATCH | Bihar Assembly Speaker and RJD leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary arrives at the Bihar Assembly in Patna, ahead of the floor test of the NDA government led by CM Nitish Kumar. pic.twitter.com/lECL4SF0eV

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 10:15 AM

  RJD MLA Bhai Virendra says, "Yes, we have (majority mark). I have all the numbers...We will be ahead in the floor test..."

  #WATCH | RJD MLA Bhai Virendra says, "Yes, we have (majority mark). I have all the numbers...We will be ahead in the floor test..." #BiharPolitics pic.twitter.com/BchLjjKH6s

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 10:14 AM

  #WATCH | RJD MLA Bhai Virendra shows victory sign as he arrives at the Bihar Assembly in Patna, ahead of the floor test of the NDA government led by CM Nitish Kumar.
  
  "Mahagathbandhan is united...," he says pic.twitter.com/OsPZ4Xxvvs

  — ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 09:12 AM

  Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal United (JDU) exuded confidence that the party's president will win the trust vote during the crucial floor test scheduled on Monday, two weeks after he ditched its alliance with the RJD and formed a government with the BJP. The trust vote will follow after Nitish took the oath as the chief minister of Bihar for the record ninth time.JD(U) national secretary Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, "Under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar, we will get the majority and the government will complete its tenure."

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 06:20 AM

  On the police deployment outside Tejashwi's residence, RJD spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav told ANI, "This has never happened (earlier) in any state in independent India. It's a legislative meeting (underway at Tejashwi's residence). Agar BJP kare (meeting) to 'raasleela' agar RJD kare toh 'character dheela (if BJP holds a similar meeting its deemed fine, but when the RJD goes into a huddle, they are frowned upon)."

  #WATCH | Patna: On force deployed outside Tejashwi Yadav's residence, RJD Spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav says, "This has never happened (earlier) in any state in the independent India. It's a legislature's meeting...Agar BJP kare (meeting) to 'raasleela' agar RJD kare (if the… pic.twitter.com/GqpqO2LxAJ

  — ANI (@ANI) February 11, 2024

  
• 12 Feb 2024, 06:16 AM

  A heavy security cordon was thrown around the residence of the Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, in Patna, a day before the crucial floor test of the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in the state.

  Amid huddles and shifting of MLAs to secure locations in the state or beyond ahead of the crucial trust vote, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alleged that the police personnel "wanted to enter (Tejashwi's) residence on any pretext and orchestrate untoward incidents against party MLAs".

  #WATCH | Bihar: Heavy security force present outside the residence of former deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, in Patna.
  
  The Floor Test of the NDA government led by CM Nitish Kumar will be held in the Assembly today, February 12. pic.twitter.com/FEs87U0vin

  — ANI (@ANI) February 11, 2024