<p>Patna: The inaugural session of the 18th <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bihar">Bihar</a> Assembly will commence on Monday, December 1, when all the 243 newly-elected members will take oath as MLA.</p><p>The oath will be administered by Pro-tem Speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav, senior JD (U) leader, who was appointed (as Pro-tem Speaker) by Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/nda">NDA</a> stormed to power in Bihar with Nitish Kumar registering his fifth consecutive term, wherein the saffron alliance won 202 seats, while the Mahagatbandhan was restricted to 35 seats. The AIMIM won five seats, while the BSP one.</p><p>Ahead of the Bihar Assembly session, the Mahagatbandhan, the Hindi avtaar of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, met and elected Tejashwi Yadav as their leader. Tejashwi will formally be declared as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly.</p>.Ten in 26 ministers from Nitish's Cabinet are dynasts, RJD sparks nepotism row.<p><strong>All is not well</strong></p><p>However, all is not well within the Mahagatbandhan with the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress</a> favouring annulment of its ties with the RJD. A large section of the Congress, during the feedback session with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, in New Delhi last week, argued that “over-aggressive stand by the RJD” made lakhs of voters to turn away from the Mahagatbandhan candidates, fearing a return of Jungle Raj of Lalu-Rabri era.</p><p>“The Congress is free to break its alliance with the RJD. But they should remember that even the six Congress candidates, who won in Bihar, wrested their seat due to the RJD,” said Bihar RJD president and former Minister Mangni Lal Mandal.</p><p>“The Congress is blaming the RJD for the poll debacle, where as the fact is the RJD leaders were never in favour of any tie-up with the Congress as the grand old party had neither any worker on the ground nor it had any concrete strategy to fight the Nitish-led NDA in Bihar,” said the State RJD president.</p><p>Stunned by the aggressive stand by the RJD, the Congress is now treading a cautious path. “Right now, our aim is to counter the BJP-led alliance and not fight amongst ourselves,” said Bihar Congress spokesperson Rajesh Rathore.</p>
<p>Patna: The inaugural session of the 18th <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bihar">Bihar</a> Assembly will commence on Monday, December 1, when all the 243 newly-elected members will take oath as MLA.</p><p>The oath will be administered by Pro-tem Speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav, senior JD (U) leader, who was appointed (as Pro-tem Speaker) by Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/nda">NDA</a> stormed to power in Bihar with Nitish Kumar registering his fifth consecutive term, wherein the saffron alliance won 202 seats, while the Mahagatbandhan was restricted to 35 seats. The AIMIM won five seats, while the BSP one.</p><p>Ahead of the Bihar Assembly session, the Mahagatbandhan, the Hindi avtaar of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, met and elected Tejashwi Yadav as their leader. Tejashwi will formally be declared as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly.</p>.Ten in 26 ministers from Nitish's Cabinet are dynasts, RJD sparks nepotism row.<p><strong>All is not well</strong></p><p>However, all is not well within the Mahagatbandhan with the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress</a> favouring annulment of its ties with the RJD. A large section of the Congress, during the feedback session with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, in New Delhi last week, argued that “over-aggressive stand by the RJD” made lakhs of voters to turn away from the Mahagatbandhan candidates, fearing a return of Jungle Raj of Lalu-Rabri era.</p><p>“The Congress is free to break its alliance with the RJD. But they should remember that even the six Congress candidates, who won in Bihar, wrested their seat due to the RJD,” said Bihar RJD president and former Minister Mangni Lal Mandal.</p><p>“The Congress is blaming the RJD for the poll debacle, where as the fact is the RJD leaders were never in favour of any tie-up with the Congress as the grand old party had neither any worker on the ground nor it had any concrete strategy to fight the Nitish-led NDA in Bihar,” said the State RJD president.</p><p>Stunned by the aggressive stand by the RJD, the Congress is now treading a cautious path. “Right now, our aim is to counter the BJP-led alliance and not fight amongst ourselves,” said Bihar Congress spokesperson Rajesh Rathore.</p>