NDA’s Vijay Sinha Becomes Bihar Assembly Speaker in Historic Vote
According to norm, the Speaker is generally chosen by consensus of all the parties. The last time polls were held to elect Speaker of the house was in March 1969.
The National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) candidate Vijay Kumar Sinha beat his Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) rival Awadh Bihari Choudhary by 12 votes to become the Speaker of the 17th state assembly of Bihar in a rare voting session marked by ruckus over an alleged ‘poaching’ audio clip of Lalu Prasad Yadav.
While Sinha’s offer was upheld by the solitary LJP MLA, the Mahagathbandhan’s (MGB) offer was pillared by the MLAs of Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. Three MLAs – Jitan Manjhi (who didn’t cast a ballot as he was managing the house as the supportive of tem speaker), one MLA of AIMIM, and the solitary BSP MLA didn’t cast a ballot.
In the midst of analysis by the resistance, which had a problem with the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the house and requested a mystery polling form, the BJP MLA from Lakhisarai was chosen the Speaker in the principal such political decision that the state gathering saw in more than 50 years. By and large, the speaker is picked by agreement of the house. The last time a political race was held for Bihar’s gathering speaker was back in March 1969.
The MGB’s up-and-comer, five-time MLA of the RJD, Awadh Bihari Choudhary made sure about 114 votes. Vijay Kumar Sinha of the BJP made sure about 126 votes.
Furor resulted in the house when Mukesh Sahani, organizer of VIP which is essential for the decision partnership, in his complimentary message to the speaker said that the individuals who sang excellencies about popular government “ought not to settle on decisions from prison”. He was voicing his issue with the unsubstantiated sound bite of Yadav, without taking the RJD patriarch’s name.
लालू यादव ने दिखाई अपनी असलियत
लालू प्रसाद यादव द्वारा NDA के विधायक को बिहार विधान सभा अध्यक्ष के लिए होने वाले चुनाव में महागठबंधन के पक्ष में मतदान करने हेतु प्रलोभन देते हुए। pic.twitter.com/LS9968q7pl
— Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) November 25, 2020
In the sound bite, Yadav is supposedly heard conversing with an NDA MLA requesting that he stay missing on a democratic day in the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic. “When the speaker goes then we will see (about overturning the current government),” he supposedly says.
The MGB had apparently not considered pitting its own up-and-comer with NDA thinking about the arrangement of Nand Kishore Yadav as Speaker. Notwithstanding, when the BJP concocted the name of supposed upper position applicant Lakhisarai MLA Vijay Kumar Sinha, the RJD chose to field Awadh Bihari Choudhary, an MLA from Siwan, and a Yadav, for the post.
While Sinha is a senior head of his gathering and was a pastor in the past Nitish Kumar government, Choudhary is a fifth term MLA and individual from the get-together since the 1980s.
The numbers were probably not going to support the MGB from the beginning, as the NDA has 126 MLAs against MGB’s 110 and there are eight others, including AIMIM’s five MLAs. Be that as it may, the resistance attempted to accomplish numerous different destinations by challenging this political race, which included making an impression on its Yadav electors, who stood positively behind the RJD in the ongoing Bihar get together surveys. Another goal was to guarantee that Congress MLAs, about whom gossipy tidbits about changing sides to the NDA were doing adjusts, remained inside the overlap of the MGB.
As indicated by standard, the Speaker is commonly picked by agreement of the multitude of gatherings. Throughout the entire existence of the Bihar gathering, deciding in favor of the seat of the Speaker has happened just twice – once in March 1967 and the other time in March 1969. Something else to note about this political decision is that gatherings don’t generally give a whip for such surveys since they require MLAs to stand up and report their yes or no against the name of the applicants.
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