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The induction ceremony will take place at 12.30 pm at Rajendra Mandapam.
The prospective ministers have not yet received a call from Raj Bhavan but they received calls from the Janata Dal (United).
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will expand his cabinet on Tuesday, an official said. Induction of new members in the state cabinet will take place in the afternoon at Raj Bhavan where they will be administered the oath by Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan.
The Bihar cabinet at present has 14 members, including the chief minister. As per norms, it can have up to 36 members.
The induction ceremony will take place at 12.30 pm at Rajendra Mandapam. However, the prospective ministers have not yet received a call from Raj Bhavan but they received calls from the Janata Dal (United).
Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar on November 16, 2020 (File)
Patna:
The much-awaited expansion of the Bihar cabinet - 80 days after Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister for a fifth time - will take place at noon Tuesday, with the BJP expected to get nine berths to the eight set aside for Mr Kumar s JDU.
The difference, slight though it may be, is a reminder of reversed power equations in the ruling alliance after last year s Assembly election, in which the BJP won 74 seats to the JDU s 43.
Earlier on Monday Nitish Kumar told reporters: Whenever I will get the list from the BJP (we) will expand the cabinet. , in remarks that seemed to reinforce that shift in power.
Is Bihar entering a phase of Jungle Raj 2.0?
By IANS |
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Thu, Jan 14 2021 17:27 IST |
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Gun point. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Patna, Jan 14 : While the police in Patna are facing criticism over the sensational murder of an Indigo state head, a section of people in Bihar are apprehensive that they might be entering into a phase of Jungle Raj 2.0 .
Indigo airlines station manager, Rupesh Kumar Singh (40), was allegedly shot dead by criminals near the Shastri Nagar police station area in Patna on Tuesday.
The murder of the Indigo state head brings back the fearful memories of Airtel GM s murder at Bahadurpur Gumti in Patna in 2005, the kidnapping of Bharat Singh and a series of criminal acts which took place during the Lalu Prasad-Rabri Devi regime between 1990 and 2005. The high crime rate during that period even led to the downfall of the RJD in 2005.