Lalu Prasad, whose RJD is the single largest party in the 243-member house, appeared pleased when his sons took oath immediately after Nitish Kumar.
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Senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui was given the crucial finance portfolio. All those who will become ministers, their primary task would be to work in such a way that the party gets strengthened.
Summary: The probable ministers are Bihar Congress president and MLC Ashok Choudhary, Bihar Pradesh Mahila Congress president and MLA-elect Amita Bhushan and Kishanganj MLA Mohammad Jawaid.
Lalu Prasad’s youngest son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav is not simply “older” than his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav on paper.
21 out of 28 ministers of Nitish Kumar’s newly formed cabinet are facing criminal charges, according to the affidavits submitted by these leaders to the Election Commission.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi declining to attend the event, he and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which badly lost the Bihar assembly polls, was represented by party leaders and central ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu and Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Tejwasi Yadav, the 26-year-old Deputy Chief Minister, will be in charge of road construction and building construction departments.
Besides Nitish Kumar, 12 legislators each of the RJD and JD-U and four from the Congress were sworn in.
Kumar will also hold the first meeting of his new cabinet on Saturday evening at the secretariat in Patna. Grand Alliance has kept its base votes in my mind while selecting the ministers in the new government.
Tej Pratap Yadav has also been allocated three ministries in the Nitish Kumar-led Cabinet.
Several eminent persons including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and a number of Congress Chief Ministers were present at the event. But one hopes Nitish does not get bogged down and continues with his mission of providing not only a clean administration but taking one of the most backward states to new heights. Besides Congress leaders-Madan Mohan Jha and Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Abdul Jalil Mastan who has won from Amour seat in Purea district as Congress nominee also took oath as a minister.
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Apart from having revived the youth wing of the party, he also launched its online campaign on social media.
