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

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
• Green bear

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.