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Power-struggle in Bihar

Pandemonium in parliament as NDA nominee made CM
PATNA. Mar 3: A Hindu nationalist leader was invited today to form a government in India's Bihar state, but on condition he prove his majority in 10 days to end a looming constitutional crisis, reports AFP.
The invitation sparked an uproar in the federal parliament as national opposition leaders met Indian President K R Narayanan to lodge their protest.
Bihar Governor Vinod Pandey swore in Nitish Kumar as state chief minister after the Kolitician voluntarily resq led is post in Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's cabinet.
State elections last month badly fractured Bihar's 324-seat legislature, with Kumar's al-
liance of parties — headed by Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist BJP party — winning 122 seats.
Tne regional RJD picked up 124 seats, making it far and away the largest single party in the new legislature.
But Kumar, a firebrand Bi-hari politician, was asked to form the state government after he claimed the additional support of 29 other lawmakers, which would still leave him 11 short of a simple majority.
Pandey gave him 10 days to prove his strength in the legislature. but the governor's decision to call Kumar left maverick RJD party leader Laloo Prasad Yadav and his allies fuming.
"The RJD has emerged the
single largest party and we ave the names of 171 legislators to the governor when we staked our claim." Yadav *old reporters in state capital of Patna.
"This move by the government is completely unconstitutional." said Yadav, who became Bihar chief minister in 1991. Yadav handed the post over to his illiterate wife Rabri Devi in 1997 ahead of his arrest in a financial fraud.
The installation of the Hindu nationalist-backed Kumar as chief minister in Bihar sparked protests in parliament with opposition members accusing the centre of "murdering democracy."
RJD and Congress members disrupted proceedings and said the Bihar governor had acted in an autocratic manner and demanded his resignation. The uproar led to the adjournment of parliament.
National opposition leaders in New Delhi met President Narayanan late today and urged him to force the state governor to "rescind" Kumar's installation as chief minister.
Leaders from India s main opposition Congress party, the RJD. the communists and other political groups spoke to the President over the explosive political situation developing in Bihar.
The president should restrain the Bihar governor... and the governor should rescind his order." Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader in Sonia Gandhi's Congress party, said after the meeting.
The leaders also staged a protest inside parliament after the house had adjourned.
The Communist Party of India flayed Kumars appointment and warned it would launch a nationwide protest.
The action of the Bihar governor Is totally undemocratic and brazenly violates all the norms set out In this regard.
The influential Communist Party of India-Marxist also flayed governor Pandey for Ills controversial decision'
Both contending sides in Bihar are wooing the communists, fringe parties with one or two seats in the local house, and a string of Independent candidates for their legislative sup-
India's main opposition Congress party has extended Its support to Yadav's RJD party.
Gandhi's Congress was mauled In the state election, winning 23 seats in Bihar. India's second most populous province which sends 54 members to the 545-seat national parliament.
Yadav's opponents say the RJD's 10-year rule in Bihar has pushed the region into a state of political and social and anarchy. and financial bankruptcy.