{"id":330922,"date":"2021-02-09T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330922"},"modified":"2021-02-09T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:02:56","slug":"nitish-kumar-expands-bihar-cabinet-bjps-shahnawaz-hussain-inducted-as-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nitish-kumar-expands-bihar-cabinet-bjps-shahnawaz-hussain-inducted-as-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar expands Bihar cabinet, BJP&#8217;s Shahnawaz Hussain inducted as minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/nitish-kumar-expands-bihar-cabinet-bjps-shahnawaz-hussain-inducted-as-minister\/shah-nawaz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-330923\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330923 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz.jpg 959w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz-696x485.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/shah-nawaz-603x420.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a>Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday expanded his Cabinet with the induction of 17 new ministers at a function at the Raj Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Governor Phagu Chouhan administered the oath of office to the new ministers \u2013 eight from the BJP, seven from the JD(U) and one each from Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Former Union minister and BJP national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain was the first to take the oath. Others who took oath from the BJP include Nitin Nabin, Samrat Chaudhary, Neeraj Kumar Singh, Janak Ram, Subhash Singh, Alok Ranjan Jha and Narayan Prasad. Whereas from JD(U) Sanjay Kumar Jha, Shravan Kumar, Madan Sahni, Lesi Singh and Sunil Kumar took the oath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">CM Nitish Kumar said that the allocation of portfolios will be notified soon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday expanded his Cabinet with the induction of 17 new ministers at a function at the Raj Bhavan. Governor Phagu Chouhan administered the oath of office to the new ministers \u2013 eight from the BJP, seven from the JD(U) and one each from Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Vikassheel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":330923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[11429,2684,13910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330922"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330925,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330922\/revisions\/330925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}