Bihar Cabinet expansion: Bima Bharti is upset over not being chosen for the cabinet. Criticizing the move to induct Singh, she said, Leshi Singh is a minister who gets people murdered for her convenience.
A total of 31 Bihar MLAs took oath as ministers today, days after Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as the chief minister with Tejashwi Yadav as his deputy. As many as 30 members from Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) and Tejashwi Yadav-led RJD were inducted into the Bihar Cabinet and took oath at the Raj Bhavan in Patna. The RJD, which has the highest number of lawmakers in the Bihar Assembly got 16 ministerial berths and the JD(U) got 11. Meanwhile, the Congress secured only 2 berths and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) got one.
Bihar Cabinet portfolio full list: Among the ministers who took oath, 16 were from RJD, 11 from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), two from Congress, one from ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and one Independent.