Bihar political crisis: Nitish Kumar quits NDA, joins Grand Alliance

On Tuesday morning, Nitish called a meeting of all elected representatives of the JD(U) and said he pre-empted a conspiracy by the BJP to break his party

Bihar Chief Minister (CM) Nitish Kumar on Tuesday broke the alliance between his party, the Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging ‘conspiracy’ by the BJP to break the JD(U) and resigned as CM. He reached out to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and other Opposition parties, including the Congress, which have agreed to support him.

Nitish and Tejashwi Yadav will take oath as Bihar chief minister and deputy CM, respectively, at 2 pm on Wednesday, officials said.

All Opposition parties, except for the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), or CPI (ML), will join