Nitish Kumar to Expand Cabinet and May Announce Ministers’ Portfolios Soon
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Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar is likely to expand his cabinet soon with new ministers. The cabinet secretariat is expected to issue a notification about portfolio distribution on Monday evening, as reported by the news agency PTI.
Today, the Bihar Chief Minister chaired a meeting of his new cabinet to distribute portfolios. After the cabinet meeting, leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents, however, remained quiet about the distribution of portfolios. Besides Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Prem Kumar, Vijendra Yadav, and Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Hindustan Awam Morcha’s Santosh Kumar Suman and Independent MLA Sumit Kumar Singh were sworn in as ministers on Sunday.
The BJP leaders indicated that the cabinet will be further expanded in a day or two to accommodate legislators belonging to other castes, minority groups, and women. Those expected to be included in the Nitish Kumar cabinet include BJP leaders Shahnawaz Hussain, Nitin Nabin, Rampreet Paswan, Jana Ram, Shreyashi Singh, and JD(U) leaders Sunil Kumar Singh, Madan Sahni, Lesi Singh, Sheila Mandal, Jayanti Raj, Ashok Choudhary, and Sanjay Jha.
Separately, the BJP has submitted a notice of a no-confidence motion to the assembly secretary against Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary of RJD. In the notice, they expressed a lack of confidence in the present speaker as a new government has assumed power. The motion was signed by legislators of the BJP as well as the JD(U); lobbying has started for the post of Assembly Speaker. The BJP is expected to retain the post, and the names of senior BJP leaders Nand Kishore Yadav and Amrendra Pratap Singh are being considered for the position.
Meanwhile, Nitish Kumar has asserted that there is no question of now leaving the NDA. “I was with them (NDA) earlier too. We went on different paths, but now we are together and will remain so. I came back to where I was (NDA), and now there is no question of going anywhere else,” the Bihar Chief Minister said.
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