Bihar: Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar on Wednesday expanded his cabinet with seven Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs taking oath as ministers.
Official sources said that Sanjay Saraogi, Sunil Kumar, Jibesh Mishra, Krishna Kumar Mantoo, Motilal Prasad, Vijay Kumar Mandal and Raju Kumar Singh took oath as ministers.
Bihar Deputy Chief Parliament, Samrat Chaudhary, congratulated the newly-inducted ministers and said they will work for Bihar’s development.
“I congratulate all seven ministers who will work for the development of Bihar under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar,” Chaudhary said.
Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal said that both the government and the people will benefit from the experience of new members of the cabinet.
“Those who have been made ministers today have a long experience and both the government and the public will benefit from it,” Jaiswal said.
Earlier, Dilip Jaiswal had announced his resignation as minister citing party’s ‘One Person, One Post’ norm.
“I am going to resign from the post of Revenue Minister. ‘One person, one post’ is the principle on which the party works. I am thankful that the central leadership has given me the responsibility of the party’s state unit,” Jaiswal told reporters.
Jaiswal was appointed Bihar BJP chief on January 18 this year.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s son, Nishant Kumar, on Tuesday urged the people of the tate to support his father in the assembly elections due later this year.
Assembly elections in Bihar are likely to be held in October-November this year.