Patna, April 24 -- The newly-appointed Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary is set to seek the confidence vote in the State assembly on Friday.

The process was necessitated after Choudhary took oath of office following the resignation of Nitish Kumar from the chief ministerial post.

The NDA alliance holds a comfortable majority in the Bihar Assembly with 202 MLAs as opposed to 35 of the RJD-led opposition in the 243-member House.

"The floor test will happen today and we will agree on his new appointment as CM... He will win with a huge margin... He will win with more than 200 votes," BJP leader Ram Kripal Yadav told ANI,

JDU MLA Shalini Mishra believes that Samrat Choudhary would get more votes than the number of members of the NDA. ...