Patna (Bihar) [India], November 23 : Janata Dal (United) leader Rajeev Ranjan Prasad on Sunday said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has constituted a "balanced and forward-looking" council of ministers, asserting that a new "roadmap will be laid down in Bihar for infrastructure development".
Speaking to ANI, Prasad praised Nitish Kumar and highlighted the significance of the key portfolios distributed in the new cabinet.
"Nitish Kumar has formed a balanced council of ministers. The Home Ministry is with Samrat Chaudhary, while the JDU has the Finance and Commercial Taxes Ministry, another important portfolio. A new roadmap is being laid down in Bihar for infrastructure development," he said.
JD(U) leader's remarks came after Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Chief Minister of the State for a historic 10th time in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other NDA leaders on November 20 after the landslide victory of NDA in the Bihar assembly polls.
Earlier in the day, Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha questioned the Congress party's decision to hold a December 14 rally at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, stating that the matter "doesn't even exist" and arguing that if names had actually been removed from voter lists, "people would have come out on the streets."
Speaking to ANI, Kushwaha said, "There are many issues in the country that are connected to the people. If Congress raises those issues, it could benefit them in the future, but the SIR issue doesn't even exist. In Bihar, they (the opposition) are talking about the theft of people's votes; if people's names were removed from the voter list, people would come out on the streets, although nothing like that happened..."
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is conducting the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls across 12 states and Union Territories, with the final voter list scheduled to be published on February 7, 2026.