Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is all set to be elected as leader of the NDA on Wednesday ahead of the formation of a new government under his leadership in the state on November 20.

Kumar, who will take oath as Bihar CM for a record 10th time, will be first elected as leader of the JD(U) legislature party at 11 am on Wednesday and after that, the leader of the NDA at 3.30 pm, before tendering his resignation to Governor Arif Mohammad Khan as head of the outgoing government, sources said.

He will also submit a letter of support from all alliance partners of the NDA to the governor for the formation of the new government.

The current assembly will be dissolved on Wednesday.

Several other ministers will also take oath along with the CM at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan.

Accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, several ministers and Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit.Kumar, Kuamr on Tuesday took stock of preparations for the swearing in ceremony.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, several other Union ministers and CMs of NDA-ruled states are expected to attend the programme. A large number of security personnel have been deployed in the state capital and around Gandhi Maidan, officials said.

Intense lobbying is underway among the NDA partners to finalise allocation of cabinet berths, and build a consensus over the post of Assembly Speaker ahead of the swearing-in ceremony. Both the BJP and the JD(U) have staked claim for the post of Speaker, sources said.

The NDA stormed back to power in Bihar, winning 202 seats in the 243-member assembly, with BJP bagging 89, JD(U) 85, LJP(RV) 19, HAM 5 and RLM 4.

Reacting to NDA’s landslide victory, Jan Suraaj Party leader Prashant Kishor on Tuesday claimed that Kumar’s JD(U) would have been limited to just 25 seats had his government not given Rs 10,000 to over 60,000 beneficiaries in each constituency just before the assembly elections and promised Rs 2 lakh to 1.5 crore women across the state under a self-employment scheme.

He accused the NDA government of promising Rs 40,000 crore of people’s money, and rolling out a large chunk of it just ahead of the elections.

Talking to reporters, Kishor said that his Jan Suraaj Party made an honest effort to make people understand the issues facing them but failed to make a mark in the polls, and that he took full responsibility for the debacle.

To a question, he said, “Yes, I failed to understand Bihar, unlike Nitish Kumar, BJP leader Samrat Choudhary and others who divided people on caste and religious lines and bought votes of people using money… To not get votes is not a crime… at least I have not indulged in corruption or divisive politics.”

Kishor said he would “definitely quit” politics if the NDA government fulfils its poll promise and gives Rs 2 lakh each to Rs 1.5 crore women under self-employment initiatives.

Meanwhile, the on-going family feud in RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s family escalated on Tuesday with his daughter Rohini Acharya slamming those who accused her of giving a “filthy kidney” to her ailing father and challenged them to an open debate with her on the issue.

Acharya also asked these people to donate their kidneys to millions of patients needing the organ “in the name of Lalu ji”.

Following the RJD’s poll debacle, Acharya on Sunday alleged that she has been “sworn at” and accused of extracting “crores of rupees and a party ticket” in exchange for a “filthy kidney” that she gave to her ailing father. She has also claimed that she had been “driven out” of her parents’ home by the cohorts of her younger brother Tejashwi Yadav.

“Those people who want to do something in the name of Lalu Ji should stop pretending to show false sympathy. They should come forward to donate their kidneys to those millions of poor people who are counting their last breaths in hospitals and need kidneys in the name of Lalu Ji,” Acharya said in a post on X.

The 47-year-old, who is based in Singapore, said, “Those who dare to call a married daughter who donates a kidney to her father wrong should muster the guts to have an open debate with that daughter on an open platform”.

Those who call a daughter’s kidney “filthy” should be the first to start the great act of donating kidneys to the needy, she said.

“The Haryanvi Mahapurush should do it, sycophant journalists should do it, and the Haryanvi devotees and troll followers who never tire of abusing me should do it,” she said in the post.

The “Haryanavi” jibe was apparently aimed at Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Yadav, a close aide of Tejashwi Yadav.

“Those whose blood dries up at the mere mention of donating a bottle of blood, give sermons on donating kidneys?” she asked.

Acharya also shared a video on her X handle in which she was seen (though her face was not visible) screaming at a journalist who allegedly said something about the incident, involving her, which she did not like.

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