Veteran BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav elected Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly

After Choudhary’s removal from the Speaker’s chair, Deputy Speaker Maheshwar Hazari of JD (U), was conducting the proceedings of the House.Yadav started his political journey in 1978 when he became the councillor of the Patna Municipal Corporation and deputy mayor of Patna in 1982.First elected as an MLA in 1995, Yadav, had also served as a minister in the Nitish Kumar government several times in the past.BJP’s selection of Yadav for the post of Speaker is being seen as an attempt to strike a balance between Extremely Backward Class (EBC), Other Backward Class (OBC) and upper caste balance in the new ruling dispensation.



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