Nitish Kumar Government wins trust vote
The Nitish Kumar Government comfortably won trust vote in the Bihar Assembly.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-07-28 09:12 GMT
Patna
While a total of 131 members voted in favour of the confidence motion, moved by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, 108 members voted against the motion, announced Speaker Vijay Kumar Choudhary.
The confidence motion was put to vote after acrimonious debate between members of Treasury and Opposition Benches in the House.
Defending his decision to return to the NDA, Mr Kumar said he was finding it difficult to continue in the grand alliance and so he returned to the NDA in the interest of the state.
Hitting back at the Opposition for accusing him of violating people's mandate, the Chief Minister said the people of the state had given their mandate to the grand alliance to run the government in a transparent manner and not to defend members of a family involved in corrupt practices.
Mr Kumar said no leader of the country could teach him lesson of secularism as he knew very well how some people were using secularism to hide their sins.
He said power should be used as a tool for serving common people and not for indulging in luxury.
The Chief Minister said the case of Bhagalpur riot was closed but when he came to power in the state, the case was revived.
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