Bihar Chief Minister-designate Nitish Kumar will take oath today. Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah will also attend the oath-taking ceremony of Bihar Chief Minister-designate Nitish Kumar in Patna today. The event will also be attended by BJP president JP Nadda.
The constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which won the Bihar Assembly election, approved Kumar’s name for the top job at a meeting on Sunday. There are chances the JD(U) having 43 MLAs could get 12 ministerial berths while the BJP having 74 MLAs could get 18 ministers with one ministerial berth to be allotted to both Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), as per the reports.
Full List of Ministers to Take Oath Today
Nitish Kumar- Chief Minister (JDU)
Tarkishore Prasad- Dy CM (BJP)
Renu Devi -Deputy CM (BJP)
Nand Kishore Yadav- Speaker (BJP)
Mangal Pandey- BJP
Rampreet Paswan- BJP
Vijendra Yadav- JDU
Vijay Choudhary- JDU
Ashok Choudhary- JDU
Mewalal Choudhary- JDU
Sheela Mandal – JDU
Santosh Manjhi- Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM)
Mukesh Mallah-Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP)
HAM president Jitan Ram Manjhi, a former Chief Minister, has ruled himself out of joining the new ministry and is said to be lobbying for his son Santosh Suman who is a member of the legislative council, PTI reported.
The maximum number of ministers in the cabinet permissible in the government is 36 as the size of the council of ministers can be only 15% of the total number of seats in the Assembly, which stands at 243.
