Putting to rest days long speculations and political turmoil in Bihar, Nitish Kumar took oath as the chief minister of the state for the 9th time on Sunday evening, hours after he resigned from the post following his exit from the Mahagathbandhan.
Governor Rajendra Arlekar administered the oath of office to Nitish at a function held at Raj Bhavan.
Earlier in the day, Nitish in his fifth flip-flop in a decade announced his decision to end the alliance with his ruling partners—RJD and Congress—and to form a fresh government with the support of BJP.
Nitish resigned as the chief minister, saying "things were not working well" for him in the Mahagathbandhan and the opposition bloc INDIA, and staked claim to form a new government with the BJP.
The developments have taken the INDIA bloc, formed to take on the BJP in the national level ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, back to the drawing board.
