Nitish Kumar Takes Oath as Bihar Chief Minister for Record 10th Time; 26 Ministers Join New NDA Cabinet
Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar Chief Minister for a record 10th time; 26 NDA leaders sworn in as Cabinet Ministers at a grand ceremony attended by PM Modi and top national leaders. Full list of ministers and key highlights.
Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the 10th time during the NDA government’s swearing-in ceremony at Gandhi Maidan, Patna.
Thursday saw the grand meeting at Gandhi Maidan where aboard, Bihar saw Shri Nitish Kumar get sworn in as its Chief Minister an umpteenth time. The governor of the state, Arif Mohammad Khan, as it was the occasion, administered the oath with the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief J. P. Nadda, as well as many NDA Chief Ministers.
Kolodays ost election, NDA Legislature, unanimously elected the leader of JD(U), just a day after he resigned from the governor's post to stake claim to form a new government.
26 Ministers Sworn In
Following Nitish Kumar’s oath, 26 leaders took oath as Cabinet Ministers — 14 from the BJP, 8 from JD(U), 2 from Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), and one each from HAM(S) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha.
Key ministers sworn in include:
JD(U):
Vijay Kumar Choudhary
Bijendra Prasad Yadav
Shravan Kumar
Ashok Choudhary
Lesi Singh
Madan Sahani
Sunil Kumar
Mohammad Zama Khan
BJP:
Samrat Choudhary
Vijay Kumar Sinha
Mangal Pandey
Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
Nitin Nabin
Ram Kripal Yadav
Sanjay Singh Tiger
Arun Shankar Prasad
Surendra Mehta
Narayan Prasad
Rama Nishad
Lakhendra Kumar Raushan
Shreyashi Singh
Pramod Kumar
Other Allies:
Santosh Kumar Suman – HAM(S)
Deepak Prakash – RLM
Sanjay Kumar & Sanjay Kumar Singh – LJP (RV)
Deepak Prakash, son of RLM chief Upendra Kushwaha, also took oath as Cabinet Minister. Kushwaha, who did not contest the Assembly polls, is likely to join the Legislative Council.
Top Leaders Attend Swearing-In Ceremony
The event witnessed the presence of several national leaders, including:
PM Narendra Modi
Union Home Minister Amit Shah
BJP President J.P. Nadda
Chief Ministers Yogi Adityanath, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Mohan Majhi, Devendra Fadnavis, Bhupendra Patel, and N. Chandrababu Naidu
Union Minister Chirag Paswan, whose party secured ministerial berths, called it a “historic day” and remembered his father Ram Vilas Paswan.
Nitish Kumar’s son, Nishant Kumar, also extended gratitude to all leaders present and congratulated his father on his 10th oath-taking.
NDA Celebrates Historic Mandate
Union Minister Nityanand Rai said the people of Bihar had “created history,” while Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat expressed confidence that the new government would turn Bihar into a “growth engine of Viksit Bharat.”
Large crowds, including thousands of Jeevika Didis benefiting from state welfare initiatives, gathered at Gandhi Maidan as cultural performances by BJP leaders Manoj Tiwari and Pawan Singh energised the venue ahead of the ceremony.
