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Bihar cabinet expansion LIVE updates: RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav and four other MLAs take oath as ministers
The two-member cabinet in Bihar comprising chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will be expanded on Tuesday when about 30 members will be inducted from different constituents of the 'Mahagathbandhan' or the Grand Alliance. Stay with TOI for all updatesRead Less
JD(U) MLA Leshi Singh and others take oath as ministers in the Bihar cabinet.
RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav and four other MLAs take oath as ministers
RJD leaders Tej Pratap Yadav, Alok Mehta, Lalit Yadav, Surendra Yadav and Kumar Sarvjeet are expected to take the oath as ministers at Raj Bhawan today
RJD announces names of 15 legislators
The RJD announced the names of 15 MLAs for the cabinet and included Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav's elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav also. Other RJD MLAs are: Kumar Sarwajeet, Lalit Yadav, Surendra Yadav, Alok Mehta (MLC), Anita Devi, Surendra Ram, Samir Mahaseth, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Momammad Shamim, Kartik Master (MLC), Ramanand Yadav, Chandrashekher Yadav, Sudhakar Singh and Jitendra Rai.
JD(U) MLA Leshi Singh confirms cabinet berth, ahead of Bihar cabinet expansion
Ahead of Bihar cabinet expansion, Janata Dal (United) MLA Leshi Singh on Tuesday confirmed that she will be getting a post in the cabinet and thanked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for it. "I thank the Chief Minister for giving me a berth in his cabinet and making a worker like me, a minister. I also thank the people who have brought me here. Mahagathbandhan Government will work well, the pace of development will increase and work will be firmly done," Leshi Singh said.
Bihar cabinet expansion shortly, 31 ministers likely to be inducted
Hindustani Awam Morcha's Santosh Suman is also likely to return as a minister. The party, founded by his father and former CM Jitan Ram Manhi, has four MLAs and it had quit the NDA expressing solidarity with Nitish Kumar.
This entire Mahagathbandhan, and now Nitish Kumar has come (into the alliance), so the map of 2024 is clear up to a great extent
Manoj Jha, RJD's Rajya Sabha MP
There will be no difference (b/w party's alliance with RJD & that with BJP) as leader is the same. Work will be done well. Nitish Kumar will take Bihar to new heights & it's the demand of the nation that he lead the country, lead Opposition in the country: Leshi Singh, JD(U) MLA
The session was initially under question as Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha refused to quit and prompted the ruling alliance to move a no-confidence motion against Sinha.
Meanwhile, the new Nitish Kumar led-Mahagathbandhan government in Bihar will go for a floor test on August 24 to prove its majority in the state assembly.
JD(U) is likely to drop a few who may have been deemed to be close to the BJP and former JD(U) president RCP Singh, accused of trying to split the party at the ex-ally's behest.
Sources in Congress said, Kasba MLA Afaque Alam and Chenari MLA Murari Gautam have been handpicked as part of its strategy to ensure representation of a minority and a Dalit, respectively, from the Congress side.
Nitish Kumar's JD(U) is likely to retain most of its senior ministers in the previous NDA government including Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Ashok Choudhary, Shravan Kumar, Leshi Singh and Madan Sahni. Md Jama Khan also be retained.
From the RJD camp, there seems to be little doubt over the induction of Tej Pratap Yadav, the maverick elder son of Lalu Prasad. Along expected lines, the party is likely to allot a number of berths to those from the Yadav caste, who form its core base.
It will be the first expansion of the newly-formed Grand Alliance govenrment
Earlier, JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar and RJD's Tejashwi Prasad Yadav took oath as the chief minister and deputy chief minister on August 10.
Congress' state in-charge Bhakt Charan Das has said that the party is tipped to get three ministerial berths, two of which will be filled on Tuesday.
An in-principle agreement has been reached that the RJD, which is the largest party in the state assembly, will have a lion's share of ministerial berths, followed by Kumar's JD(U).
The state cabinet can have up to 36 ministers, including the chief minister. The induction of ministers on Tuesday is expected to keep a few berths vacant for future expansion.
