Highlights
- Kartik Kumar was given the regulation portfolio earlier within the month
- His alleged involvement in a legal case had sparked a row within the current previous
- The notification relating to the identical was issued by the state Cabinet Secretariat Department
Bihar: In a big improvement, RJD’s Kartik Kumar, who was given the regulation portfolio earlier within the month, was shifted to the sugarcane division amid the continued row over his alleged involvement in a legal case.
Shamim Ahmad, additionally an RJD chief, replaced Kumar because the regulation minister, a notification issued by the state Cabinet Secretariat Department stated.
Ahmad held the sugarcane portfolio earlier than his elevation.
The opposition BJP had been demanding Kumar’s elimination from the cupboard, alleging that an arrest warrant was pending towards him in a 2014 kidnapping case.
The Congress and CPI-ML (Liberation), constituents of the ruling Grand Alliance, had additionally requested the Nitish Kumar authorities to rethink the choice of inducting Kartik Kumar into the cupboard.
Bihar cupboard enlargement
On August 16, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expanded his new cupboard by inducting 31 new ministers, together with an enormous contingent of 16 from key ally RJD, taking care to give due illustration to all sections of society, together with minorities.
Of the council of ministers, 11 have been from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), two from Congress and one from ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM, moreover an Independent.
RJD president Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav loved a satisfaction of place, because the second-term MLA took oath within the first batch, alongside celebration veteran Alok Mehta, JD(U) heavyweights Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Yadav and Mohd Afaque Alam of the Congress.
The new cupboard, predictably, has a sizeable variety of Yadavs and Muslims, although members of different sections of the society additionally discover a place.
Three of the ministers are girls – Sheela Kumari and Leshi Singh (each JDU) and Anita Devi (RJD).
There are altogether seven Yadavs from RJD, together with the 2 sons of Lalu Prasad, moreover Bijendra Yadav of the JD(U).
Others from the populous caste group in Bihar embody Lalit Yadav, Surendra Prasad, Chandrashekhar, Ramanand Yadav and Jitendra Kumar Rai.
There are 5 Muslims – Zama Khan (JDU), Mohd Afaque Alam (Congress) and Mohd Shamim, Mohd Israil Mansuri and Shahnawaz Alam (all RJD).
Comparatively, the final Nitish Kumar cupboard in alliance with BJP, had as Muslim illustration Senior BJP chief Syed Shahnawaz Hussain moreover Zama Khan.
(With inputs from PTI)
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