Patna, April 24: The BJP-led government in Bihar on Friday won a vote of confidence in the state assembly, where Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary gave assurance of speedy economic development, with investments worth Rs 5 lakh crore in one year.
The motion seeking a vote of confidence, moved by Choudhary, who became the first BJP leader to head a government in the state, was passed through voice vote in the 243-strong House, where the ruling NDA enjoys a brute majority with 202 seats in its kitty.
The House also passed another motion censuring the opposition’s stance on the women’s reservation bill.
The debate on the motion of confidence saw acrimonious exchanges between the ruling side and the opposition, which seemed resolute to make its voice heard, moving past the trauma of decimation it faced in the assembly polls held last November.
Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav gave a brief but fiery speech, in which he touched upon various issues, including the raging debate on reservation for women in the legislatures, which has been revived since a bill seeking to link the quotas to delimitation fell in Parliament as it did not get a two-thirds majority.
Yadav raised the issue of a “quota within quota”, a line toed by his RJD and other INDIA bloc parties on the ground that reservation for women must not result in a decline in the representation of Dalits, OBCs and extremely backward classes. (PTI)
