Twenty-four other ministers — eight from the Janata Dal (United), 14 from the BJP, two from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and one each from the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha — took oath in batches of six.

Nitish Kumar took oath as the chief minister of Bihar for a record 10th time on Thursday at a grand ceremony in Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan, completing an extraordinary political triumph that saw the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) score a landslide victory in the recently concluded elections.

After Kumar, his two deputies Samrat Choudhury and Vijay Kumar Sinha, both from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were sworn in. Twenty-four other ministers — eight from the Janata Dal (United), 14 from the BJP, two from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) a

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