Patna: After the NDA's fiasco in neighbouring Jharkhand, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday favoured that assemblies should mandatorily have a strength in excess of 100 in the interest of political stability.
Kumar, whose party JD(U) was a coalition partner in Jharkhand's outgoing NDA government, said frequent uncertainty over the fate of the government in that state and other states with small assemblies, did not augur well for development.
"No party or combination of parties has a clear majority in Jharkhand where the fate of the government depends on just a handful of independents. In my view this is more or less the situation in states where the strength of the legislative assemblies is less than 100. This leads to a hung house where there are frequent conflicts over leadership and cabinet slots," he said.
Asked whether he favoured the UPA forming the government or fresh elections in Jharkhand, Kumar said "it will all depend on what the people of the state feel and choose for themselves."
On why, like his bete noire RJD President Lalu Prasad, who was in the forefront of the oust-Arjun Munda government campaign, he did not not go to Jharkhand to save the NDA ministry, Kumar said, "I am a person who believes in the politics of mandate and not in the politics of horsetrading."
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