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 SET TO TAKE OATH TODAY
Chief Minister: Nitish Kumar (JDU)
Deputy Chief Minister: Tarkishore Prasad (BJP)
Deputy Chief Minister: Renu Devi (BJP)
Minister: Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (JDU)
Minister: Santosh Suman (HAM). He is the son of Jitan Ram Manjhi. Santosh is a member of the Legislative Council
Minister: Mukesh Sahni. He heads the VIP. Interestingly, the former Bollywood set designer lost elections from Simri Bakhtiyarpur
Minister: Vijendra Prasad Yadav (JDU). He won from Supual
Minister: Ashok Choudhary will also take oath. He is the working president of Janta Dal-United
Minister: Mewa Lal Choudhary of the JDU will take the path. Choudhary won from Tarapur in Munger district. He had won from here in 2015
Minister: Sheela Mandal of the JDU to take oath today. Sheela Mandal won from Phulparas in Madhubani. Sheela defeated Kripanath Thakur of Congress and Bonod Kumar Singh of the LJP
Ministers: BJP leaders Mangal Pandey and Ram Prit Paswan will also take oath on Monday.
Speaker: Meanwhile, BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav is set to be the Speaker in the new Assembly. Nand Kishore won from the Patna Sahib Assembly seat.
