The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has always maintained that Nitish Kumar would retain the post, but the dismal performance of the Janata Dal United (JDU) had put a question on it.
Gaurav, the victim, who was residing with his family in a rented accommodation in the area, was reportedly shot in the head by his friend Golu.
The chief minister is undergoing home isolation, a health department official told news agency PTI.
Soumitra Chatterjee fought a long and hard battle against COVID-19 but despite winning it, other illnesses took away one of India’s most renowned actors.
Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on the birth anniversary of 19th-century freedom fighter and tribal leader Bhagwan Birsa Munda on November 15, 2000.
It was COVID-19 encephalopathy that had made Soumitra Chatterjee’s brain weak before eventually turning it unresponsive, leading to a multi-organ failure.
Soumitra Chatterjee will be taken to Nandan in Rabindra Sadan, considered as the hub of Bengali theatre, followed by the Technician Studio in Tollygunge.
Nitish Kumar-led JDU has won 43 seats in the recently concluded Bihar elections while the BJP managed to win 74 seats in the state.
PM Modi dubbed Birsa Munda a true ‘messiah’ of the poor, saying that “he struggled throughout his life for the welfare of the exploited and deprived”.
India’s tour of Australia will kick off with the ODI series from November 27. It will be followed by the three-match T20I series and four Tests.
