The foundation day of Bihar state legislative assembly would be celebrated on February 7, Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said today.
Members of both houses of Bihar legislature would donate blood to mark the foundation day celebration, Chaudhary told reporters.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be present during the celebration.
Bihar and Odisha were carved away from Bengal Presidency in 1912 to form a new province. Lord Satyendra Prasad Sinha was the first Governor of Bihar and Odisha province.
On February 7, 1921 he had inaugurated the present building of Bihar legislature and on the same day the first meeting of legislators of the new province of Bihar and Odisha was held under chairmanship of Walter More.
In course of time bi-cameral legislature-- state legislative assembly and state legislative council were set up in Bihar in the light of Government of India Act 1935, he added.
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