AgenciesThe Bihar cabinet expansion will take place tomorrow (August 16) at 11:30am, news wire agency ANI has claimed.
JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, who recently sworn in as Bihar chief minister for a record eighth time, is expected to retain the all-important Home portfolio, while the RJD may get most of the departments that were previously with the BJP, news wire agency PTI had claimed earlier quotuing a highly-placed source.
He said an in-principle agreement has been reached about the composition of the new cabinet, which is likely to have "35 members or more", drawn from Kumar's JD(U), the RJD and the Congress. Kumar, who is being commended by opposition parties for joining the "anti-BJP camp", also had a telephonic talk with Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the political situation.
According to broader contours of the power sharing formula, the RJD will have the largest number of ministers, in recognition of the fact that it has a higher number of MLAs, the PTI report added.
"The JD(U) is likely to have 13 ministers, the RJD has settled for 16. The Congress will be given four berths, while former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM will have one member in the cabinet," the source said.
A broad understanding is said to have been reached among the alliance partners on the names, barring the Congress, which needs the same to be approved by the party high command in Delhi.
The JD(U) is likely to reinstate as many of its ministers as possible from the previous cabinet.
Kumar himself will be keeping Home, which helps him have a control over the police. He is likely to also keep the departments related to welfare of extremely backward castes and minorities, which form his core constituency.
While Tejashwi Yadav is certain to become the deputy CM, it is not yet decided which portfolios he will keep.
JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, who recently sworn in as Bihar chief minister for a record eighth time, is expected to retain the all-important Home portfolio, while the RJD may get most of the departments that were previously with the BJP, news wire agency PTI had claimed earlier quotuing a highly-placed source.
He said an in-principle agreement has been reached about the composition of the new cabinet, which is likely to have "35 members or more", drawn from Kumar's JD(U), the RJD and the Congress. Kumar, who is being commended by opposition parties for joining the "anti-BJP camp", also had a telephonic talk with Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the political situation.
According to broader contours of the power sharing formula, the RJD will have the largest number of ministers, in recognition of the fact that it has a higher number of MLAs, the PTI report added.
"The JD(U) is likely to have 13 ministers, the RJD has settled for 16. The Congress will be given four berths, while former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM will have one member in the cabinet," the source said.
A broad understanding is said to have been reached among the alliance partners on the names, barring the Congress, which needs the same to be approved by the party high command in Delhi.
The JD(U) is likely to reinstate as many of its ministers as possible from the previous cabinet.
Kumar himself will be keeping Home, which helps him have a control over the police. He is likely to also keep the departments related to welfare of extremely backward castes and minorities, which form his core constituency.
While Tejashwi Yadav is certain to become the deputy CM, it is not yet decided which portfolios he will keep.
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