Patna: Janata Dal (United) – JDU chief Nitish Kumar will take oath as Bihar Chief Minister for a record 10th time on November 20.
The swearing-in ceremony will take place at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan here, which has hosted his inaugurations in 2005, 2010, and 2015.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other prominent leaders of the NDA are expected to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Various Chief Ministers of NDA-rule states are also expected to attend the oath-taking ceremony.
Earlier Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Patna on Wednesday evening and was accorded a welcome by BJP National President JP Nadda, Bihar BJP President Dilip Jaiswal and other leaders at the airport.
Nitish Kumar was first elected as leader of the JDU Legislature Party during the meeting with the new MLAs held at his official residence in Patna on November 19. He was also unanimously elected as leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Legislature Party ahead of the formation of a new government under his leadership.
Meanwhile Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha were also elected as leader and deputy leader of the BJP Legislature Party, respectively, during the meeting held at the BJP State headquarters.
The 74-year-old Nitish Kumar has been Chief Minister since November 2005, with a brief nine-month gap in 2014-15.
The JDU supremo Nitish Kumar has staked a claim to form the government in Bihar after the NDA swept 202 assembly constituencies. He met Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Wednesday and tendered his resignation as the Chief Minister.
The NDA registered a historic landslide victory in the 2025 Bihar assembly polls, winning 202 of the 243 seats, while the Mahagathbandhan managed to secure only 35 seats. The ruling alliance secured a three-fourths majority in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, marking the second time the NDA crossed the 200-seat mark in state polls. In 2010, it had won 206 seats.
In the NDA, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 89 seats, Janata Dal (United) won 85, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJPRV) won 19, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (HAMS) won 5, and Rashtriya Lok Morcha won 4 seats.
Among opposition parties, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won 25 seats, the Indian National Congress 6, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) [CPI(ML)(L)] 2, the Indian Inclusive Party (IIP) one, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] one seat.
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) secured five seats, while the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won one seat.
The Bihar assembly elections were held in two phases on November 6 and 11. Bihar recorded a historic 67.13 per cent voter turnout, the highest since 1951, with women voters outpacing men (71.6 per cent vs 62.8 per cent).
(With inputs from ANI)
