Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar today at 2 pm after quitting the BJP on Tuesday and announcing a new 'Grand Alliance' that includes Tejashwi Yadav and other opposition parties.

Here are the 10 latest developments in this big story:

1.      Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as Chief Minister – for the eighth time – and Tejashwi Yadav will be sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister. No other MLA has resigned as a minister today, that is known. 

2.      "The Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) of seven parties, independent, will work hard," Nitish Kumar said after his second meeting with the governor yesterday. He first resigned as Prime Minister in a government that consisted of his party, the Janata Dal United, or JDU, and the BJP; in less than an hour he returned to the Governor accompanied by Tejashwi Yadav and other opposition leaders to declare that they should be invited to form the next government based on their combined strength. 

3.      "I am resigning, I have informed all my MLAs," Nitish Kumar said after his first session as governor. He said the decision to break away from the BJP - for the second time in nine years - was based on the feedback he received in an interaction with his party legislators this morning.

4.      Even as his party met, Tejashwi Yadav, 32, held a parallel meeting with his MLAs where it was agreed that he would support Nitish Kumar in the new government. Tejashwi Yadav will serve as Deputy Chief Minister and will be sworn in along with Mr. Kumar. "The BJP has betrayed all its allies and intimidated others," he said at a press conference with Nitish Kumar.

5.      The BJP accused Nitish Kumar of "betraying the people's mandate" by swapping partners. However, this is a fixed characterization of Nitish Kumar who has drawn much criticism for his ideological flexibility and willingness to trade principles for power. BJP has announced a nationwide protest against Nitish Kumar's move.

6.      Till 2013, Nitish Kumar worked with the BJP, albeit a tumultuous one, when it became clear that Narendra Modi would emerge as the main leader of the BJP. He cut a chord with the BJP and formed the government in 2015 with Lalu Yadav and the Congress. Lalu Yadav, a veteran from Bihar, is the father of Tejashwi Yadav. In 2017, Nitish Kumar left the tripartite alliance claiming that Tejashwi Yadav's rampant corruption as a minister could not be tolerated.

7.      After he joined the BJP, the parties traded public criticism on issues big and small. In June, Nitish Kumar contradicted the Chief Minister, saying that while the Center had refused to conduct a caste census, a caste census would indeed take place in Bihar. Tejashwi Yadav supported him in this move.

8.      Nitish Kumar's anger at the BJP has crossed the danger line over reports that Home Minister Amit Shah is hunting JDU defectors. The chief minister felt that RCP Singh, a senior leader of his party who had joined the union cabinet, was being used to turn the JDU against him. So he refused to extend RCP Singh's tenure in the Rajya Sabha, which meant the latter would have to resign from PM Modi's cabinet. Over the weekend, Nitish Kumar's aides publicly accused RCP Singh of corruption; resigned from JDU in protest.

9.      Nitish Kumar believes that RCP Singh is part of a second BJP plot to undermine his position, the first being the BJP's tacit support to another regional leader, Chirag Paswan, to serve as a vote-getter for Nitish Kumar in the last general elections. . Chirag Paswan has his party candidates against JDU; BJP won. When Nitish Kumar thundered against Chirag Paswan, the BJP refused to criticize him.

10.   Nitish Kumar feels that Amit Shah is trying to change the Maharashtra model in Bihar and has ended the alliance with the BJP to prevent it. Uddhav Thackeray was forced to resign as Prime Minister after Eknath Shinde, a senior leader of his Shiv Sena party, sparked a mass revolt in alliance with the BJP. Eknath Shinde was rewarded by the BJP with the post of Chief Minister of Maharashtra.