Nitish Kumar Sworn-in as Bihar Chief Minister

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar, who led the Grand Alliance to victory in the assembly elections, on Friday took oath as the chief minister of Bihar.

In fact, Lalu’s sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav have both joined the Nitish Cabinet and the former has been mad deputy chief minister.

JD(U) minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav who held finance in the outgoing Nitish Kumar cabinet, will look after energy now.

Besides Nitish Kumar, 12 legislators each of the RJD and JD-U and four from the Congress were sworn in as ministers. In distinction, Bihar, helped by financial reforms carried out by Nitish Kumar authorities, witnessed marginal fall within the proportion of inhabitants under the poverty line. The Bihar chief minister told reporters after the three-hour meeting that he has given clear instructions to officials that “crime has to be curbed in all circumstances”. Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray himself was invited by Mr Kumar but he has expressed his inability to attend the ceremony. The soft-spoken former Delhi Daredevil member took oath as deputy chief minister of Bihar on Friday to serve his people with the same humility and modestness with which he has lived his life and played his cricket.

A large duty lies on the shoulders of Nitish Kumar, who took oath as chief minister of Bihar, for the third straight time period.

Many critics have suggested that he would have done well to make seasoned party leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui as the deputy chief minister instead of Tejashwi. Lalu Yadav took to Twitter to highlight the incident, saying that the PM committed grievous mistake while taking oath on 26 May 2014. Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM)’s Sitaram Yechury and D Raja also attended the event. Lalu Prasad Yadav has shown the trust only in his family, not his party.

From Congress party – Ashok Choudhary, Madan Mohan Jha, Abdul Jalil Mastan, Awdesh Kumar Singh.

A class 9 pass-out jibe does not stick as the debate over a person’s education qualifications being the benchmark for a position seems to have been settled by the Modi government itself previous year after its choice of the country’s education minister. JD(U) followed it by winning 71 seats while Congress won 27 and thus the grand-coalition made a total of 178 seats out of 243.