Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM, 26 Ministers take oath, including one Muslim and three women

JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) was sworn successful arsenic the Chief Minister of Bihar for a grounds 10th clip astatine the Gandhi Maidan successful Patna.

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Altogether 26 Cabinet Ministers took oath, retired of which 14 are from BJP, 8 from JD(U), 2 from LJP (RV) and 1 each from HAM (S) and RLM.

The NDA authorities has inducted 9 caller faces into the Cabinet, including LJP (RV)’s Sanjay Kumar Singh, who defeated Lalu Prasad’s lad Tej Pratap Yadav successful the Mahua Assembly constituency. Of the 26 ministers, Mr. Kumar’s Cabinet features lone 1 Muslim member.

Governor Arif Mohammed Khan administered the oath of bureau and secrecy to them.

The swearing-in ceremonial was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP nationalist president J.P. Nadda and respective different apical leaders of the NDA. The lawsuit was besides attended by the Chief Ministers of respective NDA ruled States.

Mr. Kumar (71), who is simply a subordinate of the legislative assembly (MLC), did not contention the Assembly elections.

He is among the 10 longest-serving CMs successful the state and has been successful powerfulness for 19 years.

In the recently-held polls, the NDA stormed backmost to powerfulness successful the eastbound State, winning 202 seats successful the 243-member Assembly, with BJP bagging 89, JD(U) 85, LJP(RV) 19, HAM 5 and RLM 4.

(With inputs from PTI)