‘I, Nitish Kumar, solemnly swear…’: Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar CM for record 10th time

Kumar is among the 10 longest-serving CMs in the country. At 74, Kumar also achieved another milestone of extending his 19-year stint as CM and breaking into the national top-10 list of longest-serving heads of government. His frequent switching sides in his political career earned him the nickname ‘Paltu Ram’, whereas he is also called ‘sushashan babu’ for good governance.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Dilip Jaiswal, Mangal Pandey, Sanjay Singh Tiger, Rama Nishad, Arun Shankar Prasad, Ram Kripal Yadav, Nitin Nabin and Surendra Prasad Mehta were sworn in as ministers.

The JD(U)’s Lesi Singh, Madan Sahni, Sunil Kumar, Mohammad Jama Khan, and Santosh Suman of the HAM(S) also took oath as ministers. While Deepak Prakash is from the Rashtriya Lok Morcha and Sanjay Kumar Singh and Sanjay Kumar are from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas).

Governor Arif Mohammed Khan administered the oath of office and secrecy to them.

On Wednesday, Nitish was unanimously elected leader of the NDA at a meeting of its 202 legislators in the Central Hall of the Assembly. He was felicitated with a huge garland at the meeting where Union Minister and BJP Bihar in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan, LJP (RV) chief Chirag Paswan, RLM chief Upendra Kushwaha and HAM (S) patron Jitan Ram Manjhi were also present.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha as the leader and deputy leader of the BJP’s legislature party, respectively.

The NDA stormed back to power in Bihar, winning 202 seats in the 243-member assembly, with the BJP bagging 89, JD(U) 85, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) 19, Hindustani Awam Morcha 5 and RLM 4.

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