{"id":666468,"date":"2026-05-06T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=666468"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:07:54","slug":"maithili-thakur-in-the-race-for-ministerial-post-pm-narendra-modi-will-be-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/666468\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithili Thakur in the race for ministerial post; PM Narendra Modi will be witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/666468\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-666469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bihar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>Patna: The suspense surrounding the expansion of the Samrat Chaudhary cabinet in Bihar politics has now ended. New ministers will be sworn in at a grand swearing-in ceremony to be held at the capital&#8217;s historic Gandhi Maidan on Thursday, May 7th. The event will be graced by the presence of prominent leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and JP Nadda, and the police administration has made strict security arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>In this cabinet expansion, the NDA has sought to balance the experience of veterans with the enthusiasm of new faces to navigate the upcoming political landscape. Sources indicate that approximately 27 ministers are expected to be sworn in, with a clear portfolio balance between the BJP and JDU. This time, emphasis has been placed on representing experienced leaders, as well as youth and diverse social classes.<\/p>\n<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to return experienced names like Vijay Kumar Sinha, Mangal Pandey, and Dr. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal. Furthermore, the names of international shooter Shreyasi Singh, Ramkripal Yadav, Surendra Mehta, and Sanjay Singh Tiger are also likely to be confirmed. To strengthen social alignment, names like Maithili Thakur, Sangeeta Kumari, and Nitish Mishra are also being strongly discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The Janata Dal United (JDU) is likely to reinstate old faces like Ashok Choudhary, Shravan Kumar, Leshi Singh, Madan Sahni, and Jama Khan. Among the NDA constituents, Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Singh from the LJP (Ram Vilas), Santosh Suman from the Hum Party, and Deepak Prakash from the RLM are considered certain to secure cabinet positions.<\/p>\n<p>Tight security arrangements have been made in Patna in view of the arrival of the Prime Minister and other VVIP dignitaries. According to police headquarters, security arrangements are being ensured under the strict Blue Book standards. Additional police forces will be deployed at every corner from the airport to Gandhi Maidan, and drone surveillance will also be installed to ensure the ceremony passes smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna: The suspense surrounding the expansion of the Samrat Chaudhary cabinet in Bihar politics has now ended. New ministers will be sworn in at a grand swearing-in ceremony to be held at the capital&#8217;s historic Gandhi Maidan on Thursday, May 7th. The event will be graced by the presence of prominent leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and JP Nadda, and the police administration has made strict security arrangements. In this cabinet expansion, the NDA has sought to balance the experience of veterans with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":666469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666471,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666468\/revisions\/666471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}