Patna 16 August : Thirty-one legislators including the Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav’s brother Tej Pratap Yadav, were sworn in on Tuesday in the context of Bihar’s cabinet under the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.As was expected as expected, the RJD as the largest political party in the state and has secured a significant part of the ministerial seats.
Ministers who took the oath on Tuesday were 16 who were from the RJD and 11 were from Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), two from the Congress one was from Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and an Independent MLA.
In the JD(U) the legislators who took oaths as ministers include: Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav Ashok Chaudhary Sharavan Kumar Lesi Singh Sunil Kumar Sheela Mandal Jayant Raj Jama Khan, Sanjay Jha and Madan Sahani.
From the RJD the ministers who are new to RJD are Tej Pratap Yadav Alok Mehta Dr.Surendra Yadav, Dr.Ramanand Yadav Samir Mahasheth, Prof.Chandrashekher Yadav, Anita Devi Jitendra Rai Sudhakar Singh Lalit Yadav Kumar Sarvajeet, Kartik Master, Surendra Ram, Mohammad Israil Mansuri (RJD), Shahnawaz Alam (RJD) and Shamim Ahmed.
From the Congress The new ministers are Afaq Alam and Murari Prasad Gautam.Sumit Kumar Singh is an Independent MLA.Santosh Kumar Suman is from the HAM.
The legislators took an oath in the Raj Bhawan.
The total number of ministers in Bihar government grew to 33.Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav have already taken the swearing of chief minister as well as deputy chief minister, respectively.
After the cabinet expansion eight ministers belong to the Yadav community, excluding Bihar Vidhan Sabha speaker: Five ministers come from the Muslim community and four Dalits two from Kushwaha two from Kurmi three from Rajput two from Bhumihar one from Bhahmin one from Sahani and one from the Vaisy caste will be representing the Bihar government.In addition, Nitish Kumar belongs to the Kurmi community, and Tejashwi Yadav is a Yadav.
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