Bihar: Z security for both deputy CMs along with Nitish son

PATNA: (Apr 19) The Samrat Choudhary government in Bihar on Saturday granted Z security cover to Deputy Chief Ministers Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav, besides Nishant Kumar, a greenhorn whose father Nitish resigned as the CM earlier this week.

The announcement was made by the state home department through a couple of notifications, barely three days after the change of guard, which saw the two veteran JD(U) leaders being sworn into the cabinet and designated as deputy CMs.

According to the notification, which announced Z security for Nishant, who joined the JD(U) a month ago, but is yet to be elected to the legislature, the Z-plus cover enjoyed by senior BJP leader Vijay Sinha, who held the deputy CM's post along with Samrat Choudhary in the Nitish Kumar government, has been downgraded.