• Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led NDA government wins trust vote

• Nitish Kumar-led NDA govt secures 129 votes amid opposition walkout in Bihar assembly
  
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• RJD indulged in corrupt practices during its rule in Bihar, will initiate probe: CM Nitish Kumar in assembly

• BJP was scared of 'Mahagathbandhan' govt in Bihar: RJD's Tejashwi Yadav in assembly

• Always considered Nitish Kumar as 'Dashrath', don't know what reasons forced him to ditch Mahagathbandhan: RJD's Tejashwi
  
• Can PM Narendra Modi guarantee that Nitish Kumar will not do another volte-face: RJD's Tejashwi in Bihar assembly
  
• People want to know why you keep switching camps: Tejashwi targets Nitish

• 3 Rashtriya Janata Dal MLAs sit with ruling NDA in assembly
• Dy CM Samrat Chowdhary walks out of Assembly ahead of vote
  

• No-confidence motion against Bihar Assembly Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary (RJD) passed in the State Assembly with 126 votes in favour
  

• No-confidence motion against Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary, an RJD leader, taken up

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• RJD workers stage protest in Bihar ahead of no-trust vote
  
• Pro-Tejashwi slogans in House as Governor highlights govt schemes
  
• '3.63 lakh people given government jobs since 2020': Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar

• Rule of law prevails in the state.....that is the top priority of the government. To improve law and order strength of (police) force has been increased: Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar

• Bihar assembly floor test at noon today: reports NDTV

• Chants of 'Jay Shree Ram' were heard in the House, while some Opposition leaders also raised slogans of 'Mitti me mil jayenge, BJP me nahi jayenge (We'll turn into dust but not join BJP)' outside the Assembly: reports Indian Express

• Slogans of 'Jai Shree Ram' heard inside the House: reports Indian Express

• Bihar Assembly session begins: reports NDTV
  
• Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrives at Bihar Legislative Assembly for the floor test of his government at Vidhan Bhawan in Patna: reports PTI

The NDA government in Bihar, formed as a result of JD(U) president Nitish Kumar’s latest volte face, will on Monday seek trust vote in the assembly where the numbers are stacked in its favour, but the opposition snaps at its heels.

The inaugural day of the budget session will commence with the Governor’s customary address to members of the bicameral legislature after which the assembly will take up the no-confidence motion against Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary before the trust vote.

Chaudhary, who belongs to RJD, the largest constituent of the 'Mahagathbandhan' which Kumar quit a fortnight ago, has made it clear that he will not step down despite the motion moved by legislators of the NDA soon after the new government was formed.

The NDA, which includes JD(U), BJP, former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha and an Independent, has a combined strength of 128 MLAs in the 243-strong assembly, six more than the majority mark.

The absence of a few MLAs at the JD(U) legislative party meeting on Sunday and a couple of legislators at the BJP’s two-day training workshop in Bodh Gaya, has provided cannon fodder to the 'Mahagathbandhan' which has been claiming that the NDA will fall short of 122 votes it must garner in order to remove the Speaker.

However, both JD(U) and the BJP have dismissed such misgivings, claiming all legislators will be present inside the House. However, leaving nothing to chance, the JD(U) put up many of its MLAs, after the legislative party meeting, at a city hotel.

Likewise, many BJP MLAs, upon return from the workshop, were asked to stay back at the residence of Vijay Kumar Sinha, who has taken over as a deputy chief minister.

The 'Mahagathbandhan' has a combined strength of 114 MLAs, eight short of the majority mark, but claims that while all its legislators were firmly intact, quite a few in the NDA camp were unhappy over the sudden change of tack by JD(U) and BJP and might turn the tables on the new government.

In a show of solidarity, notwithstanding the sudden loss of power, a number of legislators belonging to the 'Mahagathbandhan', which comprises RJD, Congress, CPI(ML), CPI and CPI(M), have been staying at the residence of the coalition’s leader Tejashwi Yadav, who lost the deputy CM’s post as a result of Kumar’s abrupt parting of ways.

Meanwhile, state BJP president Samrat Choudhary, who is also a deputy CM, has warned of “stern action” against any attempts at horse trading.

Nitish Kumar, who has been sworn in as the chief minister for a record ninth term, has also been closely monitoring the situation within the JD(U), having attended the legislative party meeting as also a luncheon held a day earlier which was seen as a warm-up exercise ahead of the crucial trust vote.