The BJP, the single largest party in the 243-strong assembly with 89 MLAs, elected Choudhary as its legislature party leader soon after Nitish Kumar, who heads the JD(U) and became a Rajya Sabha MP last week, submitted his resignation to Governor Syed Ata Hasnain as the chief minister

Varma landed at Mumbai airport along with his wife Sudha Dev Varma. The oath-taking ceremony is scheduled to be held at Lok Bhavan in south Mumbai on March 10