Choudhary to be elected Bihar assembly speaker tomorrow

PTI | December 1, 2010



Uday Narain Choudhary is all set to be elected unopposed speaker of the Bihar assembly for the second term on Thursday.

Choudhary's nomination to the post of speaker was proposed by state water resources minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary and seconded by road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav.

Altogether six sets of nominations on behalf of Choudhary were submitted to the secretary of the state assembly S P Sharma.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, besides a host of state ministers, were present on the occasion.

Meanwhile, 25 more newly-elected MLAs on Wednesday took oath in the state assembly.

Pro tem speaker and eight-time MLA Sadanand Singh (Congress) administered them the oath.

BJP minister Ramadhar Singh also took oath.

Altogether 211 newly-elected legislators of the house had taken oath on Tuesday. Rest of the seven newly-elected MLAs are likely to take oath on Wednesday.

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