LIVE: Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister today, Sushil Modi as deputy CM
Author yuvamind
NEW DELHI: After a day resignation ,
Nitish Kumar on Thursday took oath again as the
Chief Minister of Bihar for the sixth time.
Kumar became again Chief Minister after separation from alliance partner Lalu Prasad ' s RJD and joined hands with the opposition BJP where Bhartiya Janta Party senior leader
Sushil Modi also took oath as a
deputy Chief Minister today.
66-year-old Kumar took sworn today by Governor
Keshari Nath Tripathi at the Rajendra Mandapamat the
Raj Bhawan in Patna.
The Governor has asked Kumar to prove majority on the floor of the House within two days, after the JD(U) walked out of the barely two-year-old alliance with the RJD and Congress.
Kumar and Modi took oath in the presence of Union Health minister J P Nadda and BJP leader Anil Jain.
Kumar quit the post last night after a fall out with the alliance partner RJD over corruption charges against Lalu Yadav and some of his family members, including son Tejashwi, who was the deputy CM in the previous dispensation