Prabhat Kumar
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Special Correspondent @Hindustan National Bureau. Tweet are personal, RT and Like are not endorsement. #SupremeCourt, #NGT, #NHRC, #ECI #LawMinistry
In March 2000, Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister (CM) for seven days, was facing a trust vote in the Bihar legislative assembly. He needed a minimum of 12 legislators to prove his majority on the floor of the house. Had it been today, with 20 independents and 23 Congress MLAs, it would have been a cake walk. But those were different times. At that time, Lalu Prasad’s RJD with 124 members was the single largest political party in the assembly. Nitish’s Samata Party had only 34 seats. Supported by the BJP, he had the backing of 151 MLAs. This support was the key factor that influenced the governor to ask him to stake a claim to form the government. Since Nitish became the CM, rumours were rife that Lalu’s associate Shahabuddin had ringfenced 23 Congress MLAs. Nitish was helpless. In a decade of his rule, Lalu had uniquely modified the Bihar administration. It was impossible to root out the “system” in just seven days. Read full story 🔗 hindustantimes.com/opinion/after-… @shekharkahin ✍🏻
#Opinion | ‘Venezuela is under my control, and soon we’ll get Greenland. It’s necessary for the US,’ Donald Trump said recently. This is not a threat issued by some medieval tyrant, but a chilling statement issued by the sitting President of the US -- the same modern nation that claims to be the Medina of democracy. @shekharkahin ✍️ Read more about it: hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-us…
