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The election for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be held on December 1. The counting of votes will be taken up on December 4. According to state election commissioner C Parthasarathi, polling for the 150-member body will be held through ballot papers in view of complaints about functioning of Electronic Voting Machines.
Bihar portfolio distribution: As per the rule, Bihar can have a maximum of 36 ministers including the Chief Minister. On Monday, 15 ministers took oath including CM Nitish Kumar. The Cabinet expansion will take place after the Chhath Puja.
Delhi's draft electoral roll published Monday shows a rise of over 1.5 lakh in the total number of electors in the city compared to the last published roll this January.
The biggest name missing from the list of ministers who took oath along with Nitish Kumar was that of Sushil Kumar Modi, who had been Nitish's deputy for long. BJP's Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi have now been made Bihar deputy CMs.
Soon after taking oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the 4th consecutive time, JD(U) president Nitish Kumar said that it is the decision of the BJP to not field Sushil Modi as the deputy chief minister after the recently concluded Assembly polls.
Earlier in the day, the RJD said it will boycott the oath-taking ceremony of Nitish Kumar as chief minister, claiming the mandate in the elections was 'against the NDA' which has been changed by a 'fraud'.
Nitish along with 13 ministers will take oath on Monday evening at the Raj Bhawan in Patna. This will be the Nitish's fourth consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Bihar.
The Speaker's post has been with the JDU ever since he took over a decade and a half ago. JDU leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, who was Speaker in the previous tenure, will join Nitish Kumar's Cabinet.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Renu Devi will take oath as the deputy CM of Bihar on Monday. Devi was on Sunday elected as the deputy leader of the BJP legislature party on Sunday.
Bihar government formation: Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar CM for the fourth straight term. BJP's Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi took oath as deputy CMs.
Tarkishore Prasad won from Katihar Assembly seat. He replaces Sushil Kumar Modi as the deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.
Bihar Election Result: The Congress entered the fray as a constituent of the grand alliance led by the RJD. The Congress won just 19 of the 70 seats it contested.
JD(U) president Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar chief minister for a fourth straight term on Monday at a ceremony which was attended by top BJP leaders including Home Minister Amit Shah and party president JP Nadda. Along with Nitish Kumar, BJP leaders Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi also took oaths.
Anwar, party's general secretary and a veteran leader from Bihar, acknowledged that there were shortcomings due to which the Congress performed worse than other 'Mahagathbandhan' constituents and asserted that the high command was serious about an introspection as well as a thorough analysis of the results.
The JD(U) lost one constituency of the Bihar legislative council to an Independent candidate and held on to two others, while the other five were retained by the respective members belonging to the BJP, CPI and Congress in the polls held last month, officials said on Saturday.
The JD(U) lost one constituency of the Bihar legislative council to an Independent candidate and hold on to two others, while the other five were retained by the respective members belonging to the BJP, CPI and Congress in the elections held last month, officials said on Saturday.
All the four newly elected MLAs met at Manjhi's residence where they elected the former chief minister the leader of the legislature group.
As per ECI, 11 seats are as such where nail biting finish taken place during counting on November 10 and the margin between victory and defeat was less than 1,000 votes.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose JD(U) suffered a major slump in seats in the assembly polls on account of the rebellion by Chirag Paswan, onThursday said it is for the alliance spearhead BJP to take a call on whether to retain the LJP in the NDA.
Owaisi, who is also the Member of Parliament from Hyderabad, welcomed the MLAs at his residence by shaking hands and hugging them.
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