Live: Nitish Kumar sworn-in as Bihar Chief Minister

Lalu Yadav's son Tejaswi Pratap Yadav takes oath as deputy CM

Patna

: Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister on Friday for consecutive third term. RJD leader Lalu Prasad's both sons -- Tejaswi and Tej Pratap – also took oath as ministers in Nitish government. Galaxy of leaders descended on Patna to witness the swearing-in ceremony.

Bihar Congress President Ashok Choudhary and senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui among others, take oath.

Here are the highlights:

Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan, Shrawan Kumar, Jai Kumar Singh, Alok Kumar

Mehta take oath as minister in Nitish Kumar's cabinet.

Tej Pratap Yadav takes oath of office in Nitish Kumar's cabinet. He makes an error and is asked to repeat oath.

Lalu’s son Tejaswi Pratap Yadav takes oath as deputy CM of Bihar.

Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar Chief Minister.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Farooq and Omar Abdullah with Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav and Lalu Yadav.

RJD chief Lalu Yadav with strategist Prashant Kishor at Gandhi Maidan.

RJD had won 80 seats in the Bihar poll followed by JD(U) 71 and Congress 27 totalling 178 in the 243-member Legislative Assembly.

Leaders including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Himachal Pradesh counterpart Virbhadra Singh are present at the swearing in ceremony of the new Bihar government.

With so many political leaders to attend the ceremony, the event is also being seen as the culminating point for a possible future political alignment. JD(U) and RJD leaders, including Mr Lalu Yadav and JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav, see this as “the rise of a strong opposition” against the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre.

These two leaders hope to build a strong consensus among all non-BJP parties “to form an alliance keeping the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in mind”.