Nitish cabinet may be expanded, know who can become ministers?
The brake imposed on cabinet expansion in the state for a long time may be removed. Nitish cabinet may be expanded on march 15. By march 14, the formalities for the election of 11 Legislative Council seats will be completed. After this there may be cabinet expansion. The nda government was formed on january 28, but the cabinet expansion has not been done till now.
The Grand Alliance is continuously besieging the Nitish government over the delay in cabinet expansion. Currently, there are nine ministers in the current nda government including cm Nitish. bjp has delayed in finalizing the list of its ministers. The budget session of bihar Legislature was also going on, hence the cabinet expansion has been delayed. According to the number of assembly members, a total of 36 ministers including the chief minister can be formed. There is vacancy for 27 ministers. It is possible that some posts may be kept vacant. In view of the lok sabha elections, caste equation will also be taken care of in the cabinet expansion.
Who can become a minister?
Currently, Samrat Chaudhary, Vijay Sinha, prem Kumar are ministers from bjp quota. Samrat and Vijay Sinha are also deputy CMs. Both have 9-9 departments. Keeping in view the future politics, bjp can give a chance to about 40% new data-faces in the cabinet who are young. The remaining 60% old data-faces can be repeated in the cabinet from bjp quota. According to sources, this time bjp can give a chance to new data-faces like Shreyasi Singh, Nitish Mishra, Pawan Jaiswal, Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul. Among the old data-faces, Narayan Prasad, Ramsurat Rai, Nitin Naveen, Rampreet Paswan, Janak ram etc. may get a chance.
Talking about JDU, nitish kumar is the CM. He has home Department, General Administration and some other departments. Vijay Chaudhary, Vijendra Yadav, shravan Kumar are also ministers from JDU quota. Independent mla Sumit Singh is also a minister from JDU quota. According to sources, in the cabinet expansion, Nitish can repeat most of the old data-faces of JDU in the cabinet. Can give a chance to two new data-faces. Talking about new data-faces, Maheshwar Hazari may return to the cabinet. Damodar Rawat may also get a chance. This time, among the old data-faces, ashok Choudhary, Jama Khan, Lacey Singh, Jayant Raj, sunil Kumar, Ratnesh sada etc. may get a place in the cabinet.