{"id":312822,"date":"2019-06-02T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312822"},"modified":"2019-06-02T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:03:46","slug":"8-jd-u-leaders-appointed-as-ministers-in-bihar-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/8-jd-u-leaders-appointed-as-ministers-in-bihar-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"8 JD-U leaders appointed as ministers in Bihar Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312823 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JD-U-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/JD-U-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/JD-U-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/JD-U-696x453.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/JD-U-645x420.jpg 645w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/JD-U.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday inducted eight new Janata Dal (United) JD-U leaders as Ministers in his Cabinet. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was given a seat, for which the party is yet to find a candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi said in a tweet, &#8220;Nitish Kumar has offered BJP to fill the vacant ministerial seat. BJP decided to fill it in future&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The newly appointed ministers are Ashok Choudhary, Narendra Narayan Yadav, Shyam Rajak, Sanjay Jha, Ram Sewak Singh, Lakshmeshwar Rai, Neeraj Kumar and Bima Bharti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Lalji Tandon administered the oath of office and secrecy to the Ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Cabinet expansion came two days after Nitish Kumar had said that his party JD-U will not be a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s new government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He had told reporters that nobody from his party would feature in the council of ministers However, he added that his party, the JD-U, remains part of NDA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday inducted eight new Janata Dal (United) JD-U leaders as Ministers in his Cabinet. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was given a seat, for which the party is yet to find a candidate. Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi said in a tweet, &#8220;Nitish Kumar has offered BJP to fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[11429,2684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312824,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312822\/revisions\/312824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}