Bihar Politics / Nitish Kumar's cabinet expanded after one and a half months; 21 ministers took oath

After a month-long wait, the cabinet of Nitish government has been expanded today. Today, a total of 21 MLAs of BJP and JDU have taken oath as ministers at Raj Bhavan. This includes 12 MLAs of BJP and 9 MLAs of JDU. Let us tell you that Nitish Kumar had joined NDA on January 28 and took oath as Chief Minister for the ninth time.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Mar 15, 2024, 07:36 PM

Bihar Politics: After a month-long wait, the cabinet of Nitish government has been expanded today. Today, a total of 21 MLAs of BJP and JDU have taken oath as ministers at Raj Bhavan. This includes 12 MLAs of BJP and 9 MLAs of JDU. Let us tell you that Nitish Kumar had joined NDA on January 28 and took oath as Chief Minister for the ninth time.

A total of 12 MLAs from BJP quota took oath

Mangal Pandey
Aruna Devi
Neeraj Bablu
Nitish Mishra
Nitin Naveen
Janak Ram
Kedar Gupta
Dilip Jaiswal
Krishnanandan Paswan
Santosh Singh
Surendra Mehta
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Nine MLAs from JDU Kota became ministers

Ashok Chaudhary, MLC, Dalit
Leshi Singh, MLA, Rajput
Madan Sahni, MLA, Sailor
Sheela Mandal, MLA, Dhanuk
Jama Khan, MLA, Muslim
Maheshwar Hazari, MLA, Dalit
Ratnesh Sada, MLA, Dalit
Sunil Kumar, MLA, Dalit
Jayant Raj, MLA, Kushwaha

Bihar can have a maximum of 36 ministers including the Chief Minister.

According to constitutional provisions, Bihar can have a maximum of 36 ministers including the Chief Minister. At present, there are a total of 9 ministers in the state cabinet including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Among them, Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha are the Deputy Chief Ministers. Apart from these, BJP's Dr. Prem Kumar, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Shravan Kumar (all three from JDU), HAM's Santosh Kumar Suman and independent Sumit Kumar Singh also took oath as ministers.