PATNA: Nitish Kumar was on Wednesday unanimously elected as leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) legislature party, paving the way for him to take oath as Bihar chief minister for a record tenth time at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan on Thursday.

He will soon move to Raj Bhavan to tender his resignation as head of the outgoing NDA government and stake claim to form the new government.

Earlier in the day, Nitish Kumar was elected leader of the Janata Dal (United) legislature party at a meeting of party MLAs in Patna. “Nitish Kumar has been elected as leader of JD(U) legislature party. It will be followed by his election as leader of NDA legislature party,” JD(U) MLA Ajeet Kumar said. He added that after being elected, Kumar would go to Raj Bhavan to hand over the letter of

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