Nitish Kumar takes oath as as Bihar CM

Nitish has formed the government in Bihar as a leader of the Grand Alliance which includes Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD and the Congress.

Tejaswi Yadav has been appointed as Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.

RJD had won 80 seats in the Bihar poll, followed by JD(U) 71 and Congress 27 in the 243-member Legislative Assembly.

“Where is the justice done to the own party men?”

Apart from Nitish Kumar, twelve members from Janata Dal the Rashtriya Janata Dal and four from the Congress were administered the oath of office. The ceremony also saw the presence of Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu and BJP leader Sushil Modi.

In 2005, he teamed up with the BJP – a party he had opposed for years – to take power in the state again and end the 15 long years of reign by Lalu Prasad.

The others were CPI-M’s Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s D. Raja, former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad, M.K. Stalin of DMK and former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. Tejashwi took to Twitter on Saturday to justify his appointment as Nitish Kumar’s deputy to be the right choice.

The Chief Minister will look after home, general administration and information and public relations, highly placed sources in the Raj Bhawan said, adding that the list has been approved by the Governor Ram Nath Kovind. Tejawi will become Deputy Chief Minister.

Tejaswi and Tej Pratap arrived together for the first meeting of the state Cabinet today at state secretariat.

Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui has been given the Finance portfolio, while Mr Bijendra Prasad Yadav, who held Finance in the previous Nitish Kumar government, will now handle Energy.

Born in 1951 at Bakhtiyarpur in Patna district to an Ayurvedic physician and Congress leader, Nitish Kumar plunged into politics in the early 1970s at a time when Bihar was in ferment.

State Congress president Ashok Choudhary has been allotted human resources department, the sources said. Among 28 ministers, there were only two women with one each coming from RJD and JD(U).