Governor Arif Mohammad Khan administered oath to Narendra Yadav at Raj Bhawan in Patna. Photo: X@Jduonline
Janata Dal (United) leader Narendra Narayan Yadav, who won an eighth consecutive term in the 2025 assembly elections, was on Monday (Nov 24, 2025) sworn in as the interim Speaker of the Bihar Assembly. Governor Arif Mohammad Khan administered the oath to Mr Yadav at the Raj Bhawan in Patna.
Narendra Narayan Yadav, 74, has been winning parliamentary elections from Alamnagar constituency in Madhepura district since 1995 and is among the top JD(U) leaders in the state. Mr. Yadav defeated Vikashil Insaan Party (VIP) candidate Nabin Kumar by more than fifty five thousand votes in the assembly polls.
Mr. Yadav will now administer oath to the newly elected legislators in the Assembly and lead the election of the new Assembly Speaker.
There is buzz in political circles that a senior BJP leader, Prem Kumar, who won from Gaya town for the ninth time, may be elected as the new chairman. A new session of the State Assembly is likely to be convened from December 1 for four to five days. Mr. Kumar was a minister in the previous Nitish Kumar government but was dropped from the cabinet on this occasion amid suggestions that the BJP might nominate him for the Speaker’s post.
In the recently concluded assembly elections, the BJP won 89 seats out of 243, becoming the single largest party in the state.
Published – 24 Nov 2025 20:22 IST
