The Bihar cabinet has expanded with seven BJP MLAs being sworn in as ministers in Patna on Wednesday.
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00:00from Bihar right now and
00:02We'll track the details of the oath-taking ceremony all seven BJP MLA's have met at
00:10I've met at the BJP office before the oath ceremony that took place
00:15So the Nitish cabinet expansion that is taking place
00:19Ahead of elections basically from the BJP there will possibly be some numbers that can be inducted
00:25And let's cut across on the ground what's happening and the ceremony that's presently on
00:56I
00:58am Mohammed Khan
01:00Seated he's being informed about the positions and the designations that are happening. The oath ceremony will follow
01:07Remember that the Bhartiya Janata Party in alliance with the Janata Dal United
01:13Are in the government right now in Bihar Prime Minister Modi was in power before just about two to three days ago
01:19and have
01:21Decided now to expand the cabinet it may be only for the next few months
01:25But it's very crucial. So there will be representation that will be political calculations made
01:38As we stay with these visuals I want to immediately bring in my colleague Rohit Singh from Patna Rohit
01:43Tell us more about the ceremony that started
01:46What are you picking up on the names that have been chosen who are set to take oath seven MLA's?
01:53Anything specific about them. Is there a reason these seven individuals have been chosen?
02:02Well, absolutely
02:04Pooja when you are in Bihar then obviously all the decisions you take
02:07That is mainly done keeping the caste consideration in mind and that is all this this time
02:12Also when the cabinet expansion is taking place today the right set of caste combination has been
02:19Considered and two from the forward caste and five from the OBC and the EBC caste
02:27have been selected to be inducted into the
02:30Nitish Kumar cabinet and as I speak right now the swearing-in ceremony has begun and all the seven
02:37faces of from the BJP quota are taking oath as the
02:42new ministers in the Nitish Kumar government and except for
02:45Jeevesh Mishra all the six other are new faces and they will be taking oath as ministers for the first time
02:51Remember Jeevesh Mishra has already been a minister in the earlier government also. So BJP this time trying to
02:58Keep the caste equations, right?
03:00And because elections are just round the corner in another seven to eight months
03:04We have elections in Bihar and absolutely nobody wants to annoy any caste any community
03:11and that is why while selecting the faces who will be the part of the Nitish Kumar cabinet caste has been kept as a
03:22Politics right now where much of politics whether it's JDU BJP the RJD primarily
03:28Focuses on caste issues as much because it's a reality and the society as well. That's the oath ceremony that's happening
03:34Rohit as we stay with the oath ceremony visuals coming in tell me this the current strength of the cabinet is about 30
03:4115 BJP ministers 13 JDU one from Hindustani Awam Morcha and an independent six seats are vacant
03:47How did BJP then managed to if you can explain that to us?
03:51Managed to have their own ministers that the JDU would not want this space to
04:00Well, I remember Pooja
04:02Before they live just while resigned as a minister today the strength of the Nitish Kumar cabinet was
04:0930 and
04:13Cabinet births were in fact
04:15vacant because the maximum strength maximum ministers who can be in Bihar is is that is 36
04:20So after his resignation the resignation of Dilip Jaiswal, the vacant seats came to seven and now BJP has
04:30Decided that they will be
04:32inducting all seven
04:35MLAs as ministers
04:37Because the seven seats are vacant and this is part of the negotiations that have taken place
04:43yesterday between the JP Nadda the national president of a BJP and
04:47Nitish Kumar when he had a one-on-one meeting with the Bihar chief minister at the chief minister's
04:53Residence and in that meeting what we are being told is that in Nitish Kumar really did not show any
04:59Keenness or any interest in getting one or two more cabinet births and he said that based on the current strength
05:06It is the BJP who can induct more ministers and that is why he gave a green signal to JP Nadda
05:13So that all the ministers all the seats that are vacant can be filled by BJP faces
05:22He also needs the BJP right now for the upcoming election so as much as you need to keep your own party leaders
05:29United you also need the BJP. Tell me about the leaders who are taking oath
05:34Let's go by one by one. Tell me about right now the ones who are taking oath Sanjay Sarogi from Darbhanga
05:40Jibesh Kumar Sunil Kumar from Bihar Sharif
05:43Or even Vijay Kumar Mandal Sikthi, Mantu from Amnoor
05:47Anything specific details that you can bring us that that the viewer watching right now will realize possibly why they would have been chosen
05:54Well
05:59Let me tell you apart from Jivesh Mishra as I was telling all the six other faces are fresh faces new faces being inducted in
06:06as ministers for the first time so that is one of the message that
06:10BJP wants to send loud and clear that they are not only banking on old faces or
06:15But they are giving chance to new leaders also who are being inducted as ministers today
06:21Secondly keeping the caste consideration in mind Jivesh Mishra comes from the forward community. That is the Bhoomiyaar
06:26So he has been inducted into the ministry
06:30Thereafter you have a Sanjay Sarogi. He comes from the Vaishya community and also belongs to Mithilanchal area
06:36Now remember Mithilanchal why Mithilanchal has been in news recently because of Makhana lot of talk being done
06:42in the in the country about Makhana and Makhana board that is going to be a set up in Bihar which was announced in the
06:48Budget of the
06:50Nirmala Sitharaman and thereafter you saw a couple of days back how Prime Minister Modi who was in Bhagalpur
06:55He said that I consume Makhana's 300 days out of 365 days
06:59So suddenly Makhana is being talked about is one of the most important food items of Bihar and it is
07:07cultivated in Mithilanchal area, so you see
07:09Mithilanchal has also been given a
07:11What you are telling us
07:13There have definitely been deliberations calculations done here looking at how Bihar can be projected ahead
07:18But also remember that as much as this is about calculations as Rohit is telling us BJP symbolism
07:24Very similar to Rajasthan and Delhi first-time MLAs new faces being given the opportunity to become ministers as well
07:31So we'll continue to track this oath ceremony seven of these MLAs are
07:34Set to become ministers in the Bihar government a short tenure temporary because eventually they'll head for elections Rohit. Thank you very much for now