Overview
- Swearing-in is scheduled for 11:30 am at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan with extensive security and crowd controls, with officials and party leaders anticipating over three lakh attendees.
- Nitish Kumar resigned from the outgoing government, was asked by the governor to serve as caretaker, and was unanimously chosen as leader of the NDA legislature party.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda and several allied chief ministers, including N. Chandrababu Naidu, are expected at the event.
- Sources indicate a provisional cabinet plan of roughly 16 BJP and 14 JD(U) ministers with a few berths for LJP(RV), HAM-S and RLM, though final portfolios and the full list are pending confirmation.
- BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha are expected to continue as deputy chief ministers, and party veteran Prem Kumar is tipped by sources for the Speaker’s post.