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Nitish Kumar Sworn In as Bihar Chief Minister for Record 10th Time at Gandhi Maidan

Portfolios remain to be assigned with nine cabinet berths left open for a later expansion.

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Nitish Kumar will take oath as Bihar chief minister at 11.30 am today.
Nitish Kumar’s oath-taking ceremony as the chief minister for a record 10th time will be a grand show matching the scale of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)’s landslide victory, a leader of his Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) said.

Overview

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah attended the Patna ceremony, where Governor Arif Mohammed Khan administered the oath.
  • The new government includes 27 members in total, with Nitish Kumar plus 26 ministers drawn from the BJP, JD(U) and smaller allies.
  • Party shares in the council are 14 from the BJP, eight from JD(U), two from LJP(RV), and one each from HAM(S) and RLM, with portfolios to be announced on Friday.
  • Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha took oath and continue as deputy chief ministers under the NDA administration.
  • The NDA won 202 of 243 seats in the assembly elections (BJP 89, JD(U) 85, LJP(RV) 19, HAM 5, RLM 4), and the cabinet features new faces such as Shreyasi Singh and Deepak Prakash, who must secure a House seat within six months.