Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar won the confidence vote at the onset of the budget session of the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. Kumar got 140 votes in his favour.
Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition party, staged a walkout just after the trust vote to register its protest.
The ruling Janata Dal (United) in Bihar on Tuesday issued whip to party legislators, including the dissident group of MLAs led by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, to vote for the Nitish Kumar government seeking a trust vote in the State Assembly.
Kumar, who replaced Manjhi as Chief Minister on February 20, won the vote of confidence soon after the Governor's address to the legislature on the first day of the budget session on Wednesday.
Manjhi had resigned from his post alleging "threat and intimidation" by the rival group of MLAs led by Kumar. Along with a group of loyalists, he launched a political front, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), to "expose the real face of Kumar."
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