JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as the 34th Chief Minister of Bihar tomorrow.
The swearing-in ceremony of Kumar will take place at the historic Gandhi Maidan at 2.30 PM, official sources said here today.
Governor Devanand Konwar will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Kumar, they said.
Konwar will also administer the oath to other members of the ministry, including Sushil Kumar Modi of the BJP, who will be the Deputy Chief Minister.
Preparations are in full swing to spruce up the sprawling Maidan for the function.
Nitish, Modielected leaders of JD(U), BJP legislature parties
Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi were today unanimously elected leaders of JD(U) and BJP legislature parties in Bihar, a day after NDA notched up a landslide victory.
Kumar will be sworn in as the chief minister with Modi as his deputy at the Gandhi Maidan at 2.30 pm tomorrow. Governor Devanand Konwar will administer oath of office and secrecy.
The 115-member JD(U) Legislature Party, at a meeting here, elected Kumar as its leader. Kumar's name was proposed by senior party leader and Bochaha MLA Ramai Ram and seconded, among others, by Sahid Ali Khan, elected to the state assembly from Sursand, besides state JD(U) chief Vijay Kumar Choudhary.
Modi was elected unanimously the leader of the 91-member BJP Legislature Party at a separate meeting held here in the presence of senior party leaders, including Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Dharmendra Pradhan and state party chief C P Thakur.
Modi's name was proposed by senior party MLA Nand Kishore Yadav and seconded by his colleagues, including Ashwini Choubey and others present at the meeting.
Addressing the newly-elected members of his party, JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav said it was an “unprecedented victory” as Nitish Kumar had tried his level best to bring to the grass-roots level the ideology of veteran socialists late Ram Manohar Lohia and late Karpoori Thakur.
