Patna: Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) chief Samrat Chaudhary took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar on Wednesday.
Chaudhary arrived on the Bihar Lok Bhawan governor’s residence early within the morning to take over as CM, changing Nitish Kumar, who served because the state chief for greater than a decade earlier than deciding to hitch the Rajya Sabha.
Bihar Governor Syed Ata Hasnain administered the oath of workplace to Samrat Chaudhary at Lok Bhawan in Patna. Following the resignation of Nitish Kumar, he’ll change into the primary Chief Minister of Bihar from the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP).
The 57-year-old has a giant job as he’s set to succeed Nitish Kumar, who turned CM for a document tenth time in 2025 after the NDA registered a landmark victory within the meeting elections.
His elevation marks the tip of the period of Nitish Kumar’s ‘sushasan’ (good governance) and the start of a brand new chapter for the NDA in Bihar.
Chaudhary’s rise to energy has been outstanding given his humble beginnings as a politician. He began his profession with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) within the Nineties and later joined the BJP in 2018.
Samrat Chaudhary was born in 1968 and comes from a household with deep roots in politics. His father Shakuni Chaudhary was a six-time MLA from Tarapur constituency. His mom Parvati Devi gained the identical seat from the now-defunct Samta Occasion in 1998.
Till the BJP and JD(U) renewed their alliance in 2024, Chaudhary had been Nitish Kumar’s sharpest critic. In 2022, he publicly declared that he wouldn’t take away his saffron turban (generally generally known as muleta in Bihar) till Nitish Kumar was faraway from energy.
He was appointed because the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion in 2023 and later turned the deputy chief minister of Bihar in 2024.
Speculations about Nitish Kumar’s exit from nationwide politics intensified after the NDA efficiently defended its rule within the 2025 meeting elections. Samrat Chaudhary, together with his sturdy affect inside the OBC neighborhood and his aggressive political type, has all the time been within the race to succeed the CM.
Earlier in the present day, earlier than taking oath, Union Minister Chirag Paswan met Mr Chaudhary and wished him good luck in his future tenure.
Mr. Paswan wrote to
Chaudhary’s appointment is being seen as a strategic transfer to strengthen the get together’s actions among the many OBC neighborhood, particularly the Koeri/Kushwaha group. (Ani)
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