tna November 24, 2005
| Sushil Modi to be deputy chief minister in the 12-member NDA Cabinet. |
| Arriving to a tumultuous welcome in Patna, the region where the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) made an electoral killing, Kumar was elected leader of the Janata Dal (united) legislature party and later at a joint meeting of the BJP and JD(U) MLAs the leader of the NDA, clearing the decks for his taking over chief minister of Bihar tomorrow. |
| Bihar Governor Buta Singh later invited Kumar to form a government after he staked his claim this evening. |
