No Opposition Leader / Party in Bihar – Constitutional Dilemma

It is the first time in Bihar that any opposition party is not able to win 10% of the seats in the state assembly. The opposition leader of previous assembly Rabri Devi has lost her both Raghopur and Sonepur seats. Now she will have to vacate her official residence.

The minimum seat to entitle for official opposition space is 10%. RJD with the alliance of LJP has 25 seats. But since the rules say "party" and not "alliance", the issue remains uncertain. The speaker of the new assembly will have to take a call. "Under the Constitution, t he RID does not qualify for the status of Opposition. According to Raghuvansh Prasad Singh senior leader of RJD and former chairman of the Bihar Legislative Council. such situation has emerged for the first time in Bihar, so this issue will be settled as per the legislative traditions in other states and Parliament.

Cabinet Ministers of Bihar- Departments & Portfolio

Bihar new Government is ready to rule under the leadership of their Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who received clear mandate. The NDA Alliance has received 206 seats out of 245 seats in the assembly. RJD won 22 seats and Congress which is the ruling party at centre was able to win only 4 seats.

On 26th November , 2010 Nitish Kumar took the oath along with his 30 cabinet ministers. The list of departments allotted to ministers are given below:

Name of the Minister	Portfolio / Departments
Nitish Kumar	Chief Minister, Home, General Administration, Cabinet Co ordination, Vigilance and other departments not allotted to any minister
Sushil Kumar Modi	Deputy CM, Finance and commercial taxes, Forest & Environment- Water Resources
Vijendra prasad Yadav	Energy, Excise & Prohibition, Registration & Parliamentary Affairs
Nand Kishore Yadav	Road Construction
Ramai Ram	Revenue & Land Reforms
Chadra Mohan Roy	PHED
Ashwini Kumar Chaubey	Health
Hari Prasad Shah	Panchayati Raj and Backwar Classes & Extremely Backward Classes Welfare
Ramadhar Singh	Cooperative
Sunil Kumar Pinto	Tourism
Parveen Amanullah	Social welfare
Shyam Rajak	Food & Consumer Production
Shahid Ali Khan	Minority Wefare and IT
Satyadeo Narayan Arya	Mines & Geology