The new ministers include Jibesh Kumar, who was a member of the state Cabinet till August 2022. Kumar quit the NDA, accusing the BJP of trying to \”break\” his JD(U) Other inductees are Sanjay Saraogi, a fifth-term MLA from Darbhanga, and Sunil Kumar, from Nalanda. Two of the new ministers belong to the upper castes, which make for a little over 10 per cent of the population in Bihar, but have been the BJP’s most loyal voters over decades. The development took place on a day state BJP president Dilip Jaiswal, the former minister for revenue and landforms, gave up his cabinet berth citing the party’s policy of \”one person, one post\” The total number of ministers in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar cabinet now stands at 36, the maximum permissible in the state with a 243-strong assembly. The also has a legislative council, which also has seven new members.
The new ministers include Jibesh Kumar, who was a member of the state ….
