He was followed by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad’s sons Tejaswi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav.
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“Trinamool Congress will fight in favour of strengthening the federal structure and secular fabric of our country”, said party leader and state urban development minister Firhad Hakim.
Mr Yadav’s son Tejaswi Yadav was sworn in as the deputy chief minister.
Ministers from RJD who took oath are Tejaswi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Alok Kumar Mehta, Chandrika Rai, Ram Vichar Rai, Shiv Chandra Ram, Abdul Gafoor, Chandrasekhar, Munneshwar Chaudhary, Anita Devi and Vijay Prakash. Though a few of them have posted their photographs worshiping the Sun God on the FB wall, Biscomaun Chairman Sunil Singh has mailed a few of the exclusive photographs of Chatta Pooja at Lalu Prasad Yaday’s residence to Indian Cooperative.
Nitish Kumar signs after taking oath as Bihar Chief Minister in Patna. Accepting the inivitation, the DMK chief in a letter to Nitish Kumar said, ‘Though I would very much like to attend the function at Patna and personally congratulate you and your Council of Ministers, I am sorry that I am unable to move out of Chennai.
Supporters of the JD(U), RJD and Congress from across Bihar are expected to pour into the Gandhi Maidan.
Other veterans coming down to Patna for the event include Maharashtra strongman and Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar and his party man and former Union minister Prafulla Patel.
“It’s a new start for India and Nitish should now start making preparations to come to Delhi and become the Prime Minister and we will extend our full support to him for that”, Abdullah told the media here. Venkaiah Naidu sat beside RJD President Lalu Prasad and was seen talking to him from time to time.
Prasad’s son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav took the oath immediately after Kumar in a signal that he will be the second most important member of the cabinet.
The coalition of RJD-JD(U)-Congress has won an impressive 178 of 243 Bihar Assembly seats and RJD had taken the lion’s share of seats.
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From Congress, state party chief Ashok Choudhary, Madan Mohan Jha, Abdul Jalil Mastan and Awdesh Kumar Singh will be sworn in, said state party sources.
