Patna, April 18 -- The newly formed Samrat Choudhary government will seek a confidence vote during the second session of the 18th Bihar Legislative Assembly on April 24, despite the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)'s continuing majority, a Vidhan Sabha official said.

It will be a one-day sitting before the scheduled monsoon session in July. A notification about the session was issued by the Vidhan Sabha director Rajiv Kumar on Saturday.

On December 1, the inaugural session of the 18th Vidhan Sabha was convened, but no trust vote was sought by the Nitish Kumar government due to the brute majority it enjoyed, with the NDA holding 202 of the 243 seats in the Assembly. The Speaker's unanimous election also underlined this majority.

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