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Prasad, Paswan sworn in as Bihar bags 5 seats in Modi Cabinet

New Delhi: Bihar has received a bounty of five ministers in the just sworn-in Narendra Modi Cabinet as against the duck the state had ended up with in UPA-II.With three Cabinet berths, one Minister of

PTI Published : May 26, 2014 23:42 IST, Updated : May 26, 2014 23:54 IST
JD(U), which had won 20 seats in the 2009 elections, was reduced to a mere two MPs this time while the former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav-led RJD won four seats. Congress bagged two seats and NCP had to be content with one.

Kumar had walked out of NDA and ended JD(U)'s 17-year-old relationship with BJP in June last year in protest against the elevation of Modi as BJP's prime ministerial candidate.

Jitan Ram Manjhi, who succeeded Kumar in the Bihar chief minister's chair, attended today's swearing in in Delhi.

While BJP is hoping to repeat its Lok Sabha showing in the Assembly elections next year, there are already indications of a realignment in the non-NDA camp there after Kumar's arch-rival in state politics, RJD, extended support to the Manjhi government in the trust vote.

Now, the good representation given to Bihar is likely to add teeth to the NDA's strength in Bihar.

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