Nitish Kumar has been sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar for the 10th time. On Thursday, 26 of other ministers were also sworn in. Bihar can have a total of 36 ministers, but only 27, including the Chief Minister, were sworn in. This means that nine ministerial positions are currently vacant, which may be added later. Ministers from all five NDA alliance parties in Nitish's current cabinet are represented by the BJP, JDU, Lok Janshakti Party, Hindustani Awam Morcha, and Rashtriya Lok Morcha.

The BJP has the highest number of ministers, with 14. Besides Nitish Kumar, eight ministers are from the JD(U), meaning a total of nine JD(U) leaders are in the cabinet. Chirag Paswan's party, the LJP, has two ministers. Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha's parties have one minister each.

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