Nitish Kumar elected JD(U) president unopposed

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar was elected JD (U) president unopposed on Tuesday with no other candidate filing nomination for the party’s top post.

The Bihar CM has been serving as the party’s president since Lalan Singh resigned from the post ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in December 2023. Kumar (75) was elected to the Rajya Sabha in elections held recently. Returning officer Aneel Prasad Hegde, a former Rajya Sabha MP, announced Kumar’s election as the JD (U) chief and handed over the certificate of his election to the party’s working president Sanjay Kumar Jha and Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh at the party’s central office here.