Nitish Kumar Oath Taking Ceremony: He will take oath as Bihar Chief Minister this afternoon.
New Delhi:
Nitish Kumar takes oath for a fourth straight term as Bihar Chief Minister this afternoon, and 14 other ministers will be sworn in along with him. His new deputies – BJP’s Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi – will be among those who will take oath today at the event that will be attended by Home Minister Amit Shah. BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi – Deputy Chief Minister to Nitish Kumar for much of his 15-year rule – has been replaced. He is likely to be sent to the centre as a Union Minister. The NDA won the state election last week with a wafer-thin majority and got 125 of Bihar’s 243 assembly seats, three above the halfway mark.
The NDA’s campaign hinged largely on speeches by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who visited the state at least four times during the month-long poll campaign and was seen sharing stage with Nitish Kumar.
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav has decided not attend the oath-taking ceremony of Bihar Chief Minister-designate Nitish Kumar of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) scheduled to be held in Patna today. The RJD said it was boycotting the event as the mandate was against the NDA. Read Here
Nitish Kumar will take oath as a Bihar Chief Minister for a fourth straight term this afternoon, and 14 other ministers will be sworn in along with him.
