CM Samrat to seek trust vote on April 24
The Samrat Choudhary government will seek a confidence vote in the second session of the 18th Bihar Legislative Assembly scheduled for April 24, an official said. It will be a one-day session, according to a notification issued by the Vidhan Sabha director Rajiv Kumar on Saturday. JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, left, with Bihar chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, right, during a meeting at the CM’s residence, 5 Deshratna Marg, in Patna on Saturday. (PTI) On December 1 last year, the inaugural session of the 18th Vidhan Sabha was convened, but the Nitish government did not seek a trust vote due to the brute majority it enjoyed with the NDA, holding 202 of the 243 seats in the Assembly. The Speaker’s unanimous election also underlined the majority. However, although the NDA arithmetic remains unchanged, with a change of guard at the top the Samrat government will seek the trust vote in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution. “Article 164(2) of the Constitution specifies that the Council of Ministers in a state is collectively responsible to the …
