Bihar Cupboard Growth Takes Locations Months Forward Of Polls; CM Nitish Will get 7 Ministers From BJP Quota | India Information

With Bihar elections due in November this 12 months, the Nationwide Democratic Alliance authorities led by Nitish Kumar as we speak expanded its cupboard, inducting seven extra ministers from the BJP. All of the ministers hail from totally different castes and thus are clearly an try by the ruling coalition to stability caste equations forward of the polls.

The brand new ministers are Jivesh Mishra, a Bhumihar face and MLA from the Jale seat, Bihar Sharif MLA Sunil Kumar – a Koiri face, Krishna Kumar Mantoo, a Kurmi chief and MLA from the Amnaur Seat, Arariya MLA Vijay Mandal hailing from the Kewat caste, Sahebganj MLA Raju Singh – a Rajput chief, Darbhanga MLA Sanjay Sarawagi – Marwari chief, and Riga MLA Moti Lal Prasad -a Vaishya face.

Earlier on Wednesday, Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal resigned from the Nitish Kumar cupboard to adapt together with his social gathering’s coverage of ‘one particular person, one publish’. Jaiswal, who held the essential Income and Land Reform portfolio, was inducted into the cupboard in January final 12 months after the BJP returned to energy within the state with CM Nitish Kumar becoming a member of the NDA. In July, he changed Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary because the state BJP president.

Within the 2020 meeting polls, the BJP had bagged 74 seats, RJD 75, JDU 43, and Congress 19. The NDA embody BJP, JDU, HAM, LJP-RV whereas the Mahagathbandhan consists of Congress, RJD, and Left events.