Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi elected leaders of JD(U), BJP legislature parties

Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi were today unanimously elected leaders of JD(U) and BJP legislature parties in Bihar, a day after NDA notched up a landslide victory.

Kumar will be sworn as the chief minister with Modi as his deputy at the Gandhi Maidan at 2.30 pm tomorrow. Governor Devanand Konwar would administer oath of office and secrecy.

The 115-member JD(U) Legislature Party, at a meeting here, elected Kumar as its leader. Kumar's name was proposed by senior party leader and Bochaha MLA Ramai Ram and seconded, among others, by Sahid Ali Khan, elected to the state assembly
from Sursand, besides state JD(U) chief Vijay Kumar Choudhary.

Modi was elected unanimously the leader of the 91-member BJP Legislature Party at a separate meeting held here in presence of senior party leaders, including Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Dharmendra Pradhan and state party chief C P Thakur.

Modi's name was proposed by senior party MLA Nand Kishore Yadav and seconded by his colleagues, including Ashwini Choubey and others present at the meeting.

Addressing the newly-elected members of his party, JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav said it was an "unprecedented victory" as Nitish Kumar had tried his level best to bring to the grass-roots level the ideology of veteran socialists late Ram Manohar Lohia and late Karpoori Thakur.