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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday expanded his cabinet, which is less than two months old, by inducting 21 ministers..
At a ceremony organised inside the Raj Bhavan, 12 members of ally BJP and nine of the chief minister's JD(U) were administered the oath of office by Governor Rajendra Arlekar...
A host of dignitaries, including the chief minister and his two deputies, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, were present at the function during which chants of 'Jai Shri Ram', 'Narendra Modi Zindabad' and 'Abki baar 400 paar' were raised by BJP leaders, ebullient at return to power in the state which has also boosted the party's prospects in the Lok Sabha polls...
The ministers from the BJP include Renu Devi, who was a deputy CM until Kumar pulled the plug on the alliance in August 2022, and her then-cabinet colleagues Mangal Pandey, Nitin Nabin, Neeraj Kumar Singh 'Bablu' and Janak Ram...
Besides, BJP leaders Hari Sahni, the leader of the opposition in the legislative council, Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, Kedar Prasad Gupta, Krishnannandan Paswan, Surendra Mehta and Santosh Kumar Singh have made it to the state cabinet for the first time...
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