Senior BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav was elected unopposed as the Speaker of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar and the leader of opposition in state assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav escorted Nand Kishore to the Speaker’s chair. Tejashwi greeted the new Speaker by touching his feet.

Nand Kishore, a seven-time MLA from Patna Sahib assembly constituency, had filed his nomination for the Speaker’s post, a day after his predecessor, Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the RJD, was voted out in a no-confidence motion during the current Budget session.