Bihar is moving quickly toward installing a new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government after the ruling coalition secured a massive mandate in the assembly elections, winning 202 of 243 seats. Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar is set to take oath at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior Union ministers are expected to attend. This will be Nitish Kumar’s tenth swearing-in as chief minister.

The scale of the victory has raised expectations from the new government. Even as the administration prepares to take office, core issues such as employment, which dominated the campaign, remain unresolved. The mandate is likely to influence the composition of the new cabinet under Kumar. In the outgoing cabinet, the Bharatiya Janata Party held t

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