Bihar’s longest-serving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Thursday sworn in for a record 10th term at a grand ceremony in Patna. Besides Kumar, 26 ministers were sworn in on the occasion -- 14 from the BJP, 8 from JDU, LJP(RV) 2, HAM 1 and RLM 1. From the JD(U) quota, all the inductees were ministers in the previous government. They include Mohammad Zama Khan, the lone Muslim MLA in the NDA, which won 202 seats of the 243-strong assembly.

Who is Mohammad Zama Khan?

Mohammad Zama Khan is a well-known politician from Kaimur district in Bihar. He recently won the Chainpur Assembly constituency in the state by 8,362 votes, defeating Brij Kishor Bind of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Zama won first won the Chainpur seat on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket by a margin of nearly 35,000 votes in

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