New Delhi: Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for a file tenth time in Patna on Thursday within the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a lot of Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) stalwarts.
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan additionally administered the oath of workplace to 26 ministers. Of those, 14 are from the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), eight from the Janata Dal (United) or JD (U), two from the Lok Janshakti Get together (Ram Vilas) or LJP (RV), and one every from the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) or HAM (S) and Upendra. Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) led by Kushwaha.
Nitish has stored most of his former workforce members in his cupboard, together with some who’ve been accused of corruption and fraud within the run-up to the elections. For instance, Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Get together returned as deputy prime ministers.
Two-thirds of the ministers are from Scheduled Castes (5), Different Backward Courses (7), Economically Backward Courses (6) and eight are from the overall class. The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Bharatiya Janata Get together President JP Nadda, Residence Minister Amit Shah, NDA Chief Minister and others.
In Bihar, the NDA received 202 out of 243 seats, recording a landslide victory, adopted by the BJP with 89 seats, JD(U) with 85 seats, LJP(RV) with 19 seats, HAM(S) with 5 seats and RLM with 4 seats.
In the meantime, Chaudhary had courted controversy within the run-up to the polls. The BJP chief is a two-time MLA from Parvata constituency, which is a part of Khagaria district. Jan Suraj Get together (JSP) chief Prashant Kishor got here underneath fireplace after he raised severe allegations of mendacity about his age and academic background and linked him to the decades-old Shilpi Gautam homicide case.
Kishor had additionally accused Bihar state Bharatiya Janata Get together president Dilip Jaiswal of homicide and illegally taking up the administration of a college. Like Chaudhary, Jaiswal has additionally returned to the Bihar cupboard, the place he beforehand served as income minister for a brief interval.
Lalu Yadav’s confidant Ram Kripal Yadav, a former Labor minister who switched to the Bharatiya Janata Get together in 2014, was additionally inducted into the cupboard. He defeated the RJD candidate from Danapur.
Based on senior BJP leaders, the NDA centered on counting on skilled figures who have been a part of the earlier authorities in Bihar. “There’s a sturdy emphasis on continuity and house is being given to newcomers, however the authorities will likely be led by somebody with expertise.”
The ministers to be appointed embody Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Vijendra Kumar Yadav, Shravan Kumar, Mangal Pandey, Dilip Kumar Jaiwal, Reshi Singh, Ashok Chaudhary, They embody Madan Sahni, Nitin Navin, Ram Kripal Yadav, Santosh Kumar Suman, Sunil Kumar, Mohd Zama Khan, Sanjay Singh Tiger, Arun Shankar and Surendra. Mehta, Narayan Prasad, Rama Nishad, Lakhendra Kumar Roshan, Shreyash Singh, Pramod Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Paswan, Kumar Singh, Deepak Prakash.
Shreyash Singh, 34, an Olympic shooter and two-time MLA, was additionally nominated as a minister.
(Edited by Tony Lai)
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