RJD's Awadh Bihari Choudhary Elected as Bihar Assembly Speaker

The post of the speaker had fallen vacant after the resignation of the BJP's Vijay Kumar Sinha.

Veteran Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary was on Friday, August 26, elected as the Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.

Chaudhary had filed his papers on Thursday in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, and several other members of the multi-party Mahagathbandhan.

The post had fallen vacant after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Kumar Sinha resigned as speaker on Wednesday, 24 August, after members of the ruling alliance moved a no-confidence vote against him.