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New Delhi: Janata Dal United President Nitish Kumar will take oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the fourth straight term on Monday. If reports are to be believed, BJP’s Tarkishore Prasad, the MLA from Bihar’s Katihar, might replace Sushil Modi as his deputy.
Earlier on Sunday, Nitish met Governor Phagu Chauhan and had staked claimed to form NDA government in Bihar.
In the recently concluded Bihar elections 2020, NDA secured the majority, winning 125 seats in the 243-member Assembly, the BJP was the clear leader in the combine with 74 seats, against the Janata Dal-United’s 43 and eight in the kitty of smaller allies, VIP and HAM.
Take a look at the details of swearing-in ceremony here:
Time:
The swearing-in ceremony will take place around 4-4.30 pm on Monday, November 16.
Venue:
CM and Deputy CM will be administered oath of office at the Raj Bhavan. Earlier Gandhi Maidan was chosen for a grand swearing-in event.
Ministers:
Around 16 to 17 ministers are expected to be sworn-in along with Nitish in the oath-taking ceremony today.
According to sources, there will be seven ministers each from the Janata Dal-United and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and one each from the Sahani’s VIP and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular.
Vikassheel Insaan Party chief Mukesh Sahani, who was also present at the NDA meetings, said,”We are expecting that 16 to 17 ministers to take oath in swearing-in ceremony.”
Notably, this is the seventh time when Nitish Kumar will take an oath to become the Chief Minister of Bihar. He had served as the Chief Minister of the state for little over seven days in March 2000, after which he was elected in 2005 when he served a full term.
He was re-elected to power in November 2010, after which he served for four years before resigning, and had again taken oath as Chief Minister in February 2015. He was voted to power in 2015 Assembly Election as part of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’.
However, after corruption allegations were levelled against his deputy Tejashwi Yadav in 2015, Nitish resigned only to be sworn in as Chief Minister merely 12 hours later joining hands with the BJP to form a government in the state.: Check latest update
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