Their appointment exhibits that BJP, whereas accepting Nitish as CM but once more regardless of having an enormous numerical superiority, shouldn’t be going to play second fiddle because it did within the three earlier coalitions with JD(U) – 2005-2010, 2010-2013 and 2017-2020. BJP’s selection for speaker, a place it claimed in 2020 on grounds of vastly superior numbers and which it’s prone to retain and, extra crucially, whether or not it secures extra departments from Nitish will present whether or not the assertiveness extends to a revision of the phrases of commerce to the saffron celebration’s benefit.In choosing Sinha, an higher caste Bhumihar, as speaker in 2020, BJP had brushed apart the suggestion that Kumar could be extra snug with figures like Nandkishore Yadav who has served as minister below him.After his appointment as Bihar BJP chief, Samrat Choudhary began sporting a turban and vowed to not take it off till he had dislodged Nitish. The saffron headgear was firmly in place when he took oath, however there’s little chance of him worrying concerning the threat of lack of face.He’s a Kushwaha (alternatively often known as Koeri) and the place of deputy CM is the best public workplace that somebody from the intermediate caste has achieved, barring the freak appointment of Satish Kumar as CM for 5 days within the unstable late Nineteen Sixties. Choudhary’s elevation suits in with the plan to broaden assist among the many Kushwahas by weaning them away from Nitish’s ‘Luv-Kush’ (Kurmi-Koeri) coalition.Prem Kumar, the opposite minister who was sworn in from BJP is a widely known face and belongs to the MBC Kahar caste, whose members have over the previous few a long time began calling themselves Chandravanshis.JD(U) ministers Shravan Kumar (Kurmi) and Vijay Narayan Chaudhary (Bhumihar) are amongst Nitish’s trusted lieutenants. Bijendra Prasad Yadav has additionally been a minister below Nitish in all his governments. Nonetheless, his appointment this time takes on significance. Yadav’s assist for former celebration chief Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan’s advocacy for a break-up with BJP was an enormous issue within the collapse of the final NDA coalition. His return to a coalition with BJP additionally demonstrates that Nitish’s newest change has the assist of his celebration.