{"id":5787,"date":"2025-11-20T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:18:33","slug":"nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-cm-for-historic-10th-term-modi-shah-attend-grand-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-cm-for-historic-10th-term-modi-shah-attend-grand-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar Takes Oath as Bihar CM for Historic 10th Term; Modi, Shah Attend Grand Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JD(U) president <strong>Nitish Kumar<\/strong> was sworn in as Bihar\u2019s Chief Minister for the tenth time on Thursday at a grand ceremony, which saw the presence of Prime Minister <strong>Narendra Modi<\/strong> and Union Home Minister <strong>Amit Shah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>BJP chief <strong>Jagat Prakash Nadda<\/strong> and the party\u2019s Bihar election in-charge, Dharmendra Pradhan, were also among the leaders who flew in for the event. Governor <strong>Arif Mohammed Khan<\/strong> administered the oath of office to Kumar and his 26-member council of ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar had stepped down from the chief minister\u2019s post a day earlier and subsequently approached the Governor to stake claim to form a new government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>My heartiest congratulations to all the colleagues who took oath as ministers in the Bihar government. This is a splendid team of dedicated leaders, which will take Bihar to new heights. My best wishes to all of them!<\/strong><\/em>\u201d Modi wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Modi, whose popularity had significantly contributed to the NDA\u2019s sweeping victory in the state elections, delighted the audience by twirling his <strong>\u2018gamchha\u2019<\/strong> in his trademark manner near the end of the event.<\/p>\n<p>A massive stage was set up at Gandhi Maidan, attended by several chief ministers from NDA-governed states, including N Chandrababu Naidu (Andhra Pradesh), Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Devendra Fadnavis (Maharashtra), Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam) and Rekha Gupta (Delhi).<\/p>\n<p>Among the key leaders who took the oath were <strong>Samrat Choudhary<\/strong> and <strong>Vijay Kumar Sinha<\/strong>, the BJP legislative party\u2019s leader and deputy leader, both of whom served as deputy chief ministers in the previous NDA administration.<\/p>\n<p>Three ministers sworn in are members of the Bihar Legislative Council \u2014 JD(U) national general secretary <strong>Ashok Choudhary<\/strong>, a close confidant of Kumar; state BJP president <strong>Dilip Jaiswal<\/strong>; and Hindustani Awam Morcha leader <strong>Santosh Kumar Suman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shreyasi Singh<\/strong>, a celebrated shooter who secured a second consecutive win from Jamui, joined the cabinet as a fresh face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD(U) president Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Bihar\u2019s Chief Minister for the tenth time on Thursday at a grand ceremony, which saw the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-cm-for-historic-10th-term-modi-shah-attend-grand-ceremony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[1036,1037,1038,1039,1040,1041,1042,1043,1044,1045,1046,1047,1048,1049,1050,1051,1052,1053],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inn","category-national","tag-amit-shah-attends-bihar-cm-oath","tag-ashok-choudhary","tag-bihar-chief-minister-oath-2025","tag-bihar-cm-oath-ceremony-2025","tag-bihar-government-2025","tag-bihar-political-news","tag-bihar-politics-latest-updates","tag-dilip-jaiswal","tag-jagat-prakash-nadda","tag-jdu","tag-jdu-government-formation-bihar","tag-nitish-kumar","tag-nitish-kumar-10th-term","tag-nitish-kumar-alliance-government","tag-samrat-choudhary","tag-santosh-kumar-suman","tag-shreyasi-singh","tag-vijay-kumar-sinha","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}