{"id":328665,"date":"2020-11-16T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328665"},"modified":"2020-11-16T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:31:38","slug":"nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar Chief Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328666 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nitish-kumar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/nitish-kumar-1.jpg 643w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/nitish-kumar-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/nitish-kumar-1-540x420.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/>Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar on Monday evening took oath as the Bihar chief minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath of office to Nitish Kumar in the\u00a0presence of senior BJP leaders,\u00a0including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president JP Nadda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is Nitish Kumar\u2019s fourth straight term as the Chief Minister of Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP&#8217;s Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi took oath as Deputy chief ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), comprising BJP Janata Dal (United) JD(U), Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) secured 125 seats in the 243-member state Assembly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP won 74 seats, JD(U) won 43 seats, VIP and HAM won 4 seats each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) unanimously elected Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar as\u00a0the leader of its legislature party in Bihar on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar on Monday evening took oath as the Bihar chief minister. Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath of office to Nitish Kumar in the\u00a0presence of senior BJP leaders,\u00a0including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president JP Nadda.\u00a0 This is Nitish Kumar\u2019s fourth straight term as the Chief Minister of Bihar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,2684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328665"}],"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=328665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328668,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328665\/revisions\/328668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}