At a time when Leader of the Opposition and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav is on Jan Vishwas Yatra across Bihar slamming the BJP in public meetings, three mahagathbandhan legislators — two from the Congress and one from the RJD — on February 27 changed sides and sat with the NDA MLAs in the Assembly.
In another development, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the premises of RJD MLA Kiran Devi and her husband, who is a former party legislator, in a money laundering case.
In a sudden move, two Congress MLAs, Murari Prasad Gautam and Siddhrath Saurabh, along with RJD legislator Sangita Kumari refused to sit in their allotted seats in the Assembly and sat along with NDA legislators. Mr. Gautam, Congress MLA from Chenari in Rohtas district, was Panchayati Raj Minister in the previous mahagathbandhan government, while Mr. Saurabh is young party MLA from Bikram constituency of Patna district. Ms. Sangita Kumari represents the Mohania (SC) seat in Kaimur district. The Congress has 19 MLAs in the Assembly. All the three legislators reached the Assembly on Tuesday along with State BJP president and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary. The buzz in political circles is that they would contest the next Assembly polls in 2025 on BJP ticket.
