Nitish Kumar returns as Bihar CM; gets two deputy chief ministers for first time: Know all about Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi
Nitish Kumar was again as Bihar chief minister for a file seventh time on Monday, heading a 14-strong council of ministers together with two deputy chief ministers. Kumar was administered the oath of workplace by Governor Fagu Chauhan at a easy ceremony at Raj Bhavan which was attended, amongst others, by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP nationwide president J P Nadda, however boycotted by the opposition ‘Mahagathbandhan’, a grand alliance of 5 events led by the RJD.
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The swearing-in of the 69-year-old chief marked the beginning of a tenure when his JD(U) stands enfeebled by an electoral setback and the BJP has emerged approach too stronger than its regional ally for the primary time. The BJP has dropped as Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, a veteran chief. While the destiny of Modi, who’s a member of the state legislative council, stays unclear, the celebration has handpicked two of its MLAs Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi for the Deputy CM’s submit.
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Both took oath as ministers and sat on the dais alongside Kumar. Since deputy chief minister is just not a constitutional submit, their elevation will come into impact with a cupboard decision and subsequent gazette notification. Bihar bought two deputy chief ministers for the primary time and in addition bought the primary lady deputy chief minister of the state.
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Kumar, on his half, sought to keep away from the speculations round his former deputy and replied curtly when approached with queries by journalists, saying “This is the BJP’s decision. You should pose your questions to the BJP leadership”. “Congratulations to Nitish Kumar Ji on taking oath as Bihar’s CM. I also congratulate all those who took oath as Ministers in the Bihar Government. The NDA family will work together for the progress of Bihar. I assure all possible support from the Centre for the welfare of Bihar,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.
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Tarkishore Prasad: Four-time MLA Tarkishore Prasad took oath on Monday. Prasad has been elected MLA for the fourth time from Katihar seat of Bihar. He belongs to the Vaishya group. He began his political profession with Akhil Vidyarthi Parishad and has additionally been related to the Sangh. He is counted among the many fiercest leaders of the celebration. Prasad has received the election for the fourth consecutive time by defeating Dr Ram Prakash Mahato of RJD by 12,000 votes.
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Tarkishore Prasad has an outdated affiliation with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. His household is initially from the Talkhua village of Saharsa district. He belongs to the Kalwar Vaishya society, which has the standing of backward class in Bihar. Tarkishore Prasad contested for the primary time within the 12 months 2005 and defeated Dr Ram Prakash Mahato by 165 votes in a really shut contest. He then received the 2010 after which 2015 meeting elections by a substantial margin. This time he managed to win the election with an enormous distinction of ten thousand.
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Earlier he had instructed information company ANI, “There are indications that Renu ji (BJP leader Renu Devi) and I will take oath as Deputy Chief Ministers of Bihar today. This is a good step towards women empowerment. This is a huge responsibility, and the party has kept their belief in me. I’ll try to work upon it. Everything is good in NDA. We already had decided our Chief Minister. We are working for the development of Bihar.”
Renu Devi: Bettiah MLA Renu Devi took oath on Monday as deputy CM of Bihar. She belongs to the Nonia caste of the EBCs in Bihar. She too began her political journey with Durga Vahini, a company related to the RSS. She has been the president and nationwide vp of Bihar Pradesh Mahila Morcha and in addition a minister within the Bihar authorities. She has reached the Bihar Assembly after profitable from the Bettiah seat on this election. The celebration has chosen her because the deputy chief of the Legislative Party this time.
She had earlier stated, “I will fulfil the responsibility given by the party because I have been in the party since the 80s and have been doing the responsibility given to me, I am a worker and the party has given the responsibility to a worker.” She had stated that the Prime Minister has labored for girls, will proceed to work below the management of Nitish Kumar in Bihar.
Of the 14 ministers sworn in on Monday, seven are from BJP, 5 from JD(U) and one every from HAM and VIP. While 4 of them belong to the higher castes, the normal help base of the BJP, three are Dalits and the remaining from the customarily disorganised however numerically highly effective sections of the opposite backward courses (OBC) and intensely backward courses (EBC).
Besides Renu Devi, who belongs to the EBC group Nonia, Sheela Kumari Mandal, an OBC from the JD(U) is the opposite lady minister who made a profitable electoral debut within the just lately held polls. The different faces are Ashok Choudhary, who held a ministerial portfolio within the earlier authorities and JD(U)’s state working president, Santosh Kumar Suman, whose father Jitan Ram Manjhi is a former chief minister and HAM president, and Ram Prit Paswan, a senior BJP chief from Madhubani in north Bihar.
From the Vikassheel Insaan Party, the inductee is its founding chief Mukesh Sahni who plunged into politics a few years in the past after giving up a profession as a set designer in Bollywood. Sahni’s celebration has received 4 seats although he made the reduce regardless of having misplaced. The RJD-led ‘Mahagathbandhan’ boycotted the ceremony claiming the general public mandate within the elections was towards the NDA however it was altered by “fraud”.
The NDA received 125 seats within the 243-member meeting towards 110 clinched by the opposition Grand Alliance to pave the best way for a fourth successive time period for Kumar in workplace however with diminished clout following a debilitating slide within the variety of JD(U) lawmakers that got here all the way down to 43 from 71 in 2015.
The drastic fall within the variety of JD(U) MLAs, as was anticipated, noticed the BJP, which hitherto performed a second fiddle to Kumar, drive a tough discount and stroll away with a bigger share within the ministerial pie, and appears set to pocket the Speaker’s chair as nicely.
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