NEW DELHI, March 24: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was elected JD (U) president unopposed on Tuesday with no other candidate filing nomination for the party’s top post.
The Bihar CM was already serving as the party’s president since Lalan Singh resigned from the post ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in December 2023.
Nitish Kumar (75) was elected to the Rajya Sabha in elections held recently.
Returning officer Aneel Prasad Hegde, a former Rajya Sabha MP, announced Kumar’s election as the JD (U) chief and handed over the certificate of his election to party’s working president Sanjay Kumar Jha and Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh at the party’s central office here in New Delhi.
Several other senior leaders of the party were present on the occasion.Nitish Kumar, however, was not present when his election as the JD (U) president was announced. Kumar has recently been elected as MP for the Rajya Sabha. (PTI)
