Chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar He will expand his cabinet on Tuesday, nearly a week after quitting the BJP-led alliance and forming a “grand alliance” government with the support of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress.
The swearing-in ceremony of the new ministers will be held tomorrow morning at 11:30 at Raj Bhavan in Patna. On June 10, Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the eighth time and Tejashwi Yadav of RJD took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister.
RJD, which is the largest party in Bihar with 79 seats, will have 16 cabinet berths and 11 will go to Janata Dal United, ndtv informed citing sources.
It will be interesting to see which party will get important portfolios like Home, Finance, Taxes and Road Construction.
There were several meetings between the allies of the Grand Alliance before the cabinet expansion. AICC Bihar in-charge Bhakta Charan Das held discussions with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Friday, while Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav met Congress President Sonia Gandhi. There can be a maximum of 36 ministers in the Bihar cabinet.
Das had earlier said that the allocation of seats to the Congress would be “respectable” and according to the party’s strength in the House, news agency PTI informed of.
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The special session of the Bihar Legislative Assembly will be held on August 24 and 25. The Nitish Kumar government will face a floor test to prove its majority in the Bihar assembly on August 24. After the death of the RJD MLA, the strength of the Assembly was reduced to 242. The magic number in Bihar assembly is 122. Currently, the ranks of the parties are as follows: RJD (79), BJP (77), JD(U) (45), Congress (19), CPI(ML) (12), CPI (4), Hindustani Awam Morcha (S) (4), AIMIM (1), Independent (1).
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