Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday pledged to work like a soldier after taking oath as Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time. Speaking to reporters after the swearing-in ceremony, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary thanked the people of Bihar for “trusting” Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the assembly elections. Samrat Chaudhary said that I especially thank the women of Bihar who voted in large numbers… Bihar trusted Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
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Chaudhary said that I am a soldier and will work like that… I had said on the very first day that we will win 100 seats in the first phase, and ultimately we won 102 seats in the first phase. There was so much accuracy in the reports of our workers. Samrat Chaudhary termed the NDA’s landslide victory with 202 seats out of 243 as “victory for the people of Bihar”. He said that this is the victory of the people of Bihar, the democracy of Bihar, the hard work of the people of NDA in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar and all the allies of NDA. Strong workers of Bihar worked hard and established democracy in Bihar. He did not allow goonda rule to come in Bihar.
BJP leaders Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha took oath as deputy chief ministers, while Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar took oath as chief minister for the tenth time. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) were present on the occasion. Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan administered the oath. A total of 25 ministers took oath in the new NDA-led cabinet, including Vijay Kumar Choudhary (JD-U), Bijendra Prasad Yadav (JD-U), Shravan Kumar (JD-U), Mangal Pandey (BJP), Dilip Kumar Jaiswal (BJP) and Ashok Choudhary (JD-U).
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The ceremony was held at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna, where Nitish Kumar’s swearing-in ceremonies had been held in 2005, 2010 and 2015. The site is also politically significant because it was here that Jayaprakash Narayan called for “total revolution” in 1974. The 2025 Bihar Assembly elections were being seen as a crucial test for Nitish Kumar, who has been a central figure in state politics for nearly two decades. The 74-year-old leader has been serving as the chief minister since 2005, except for a brief gap of nine months in 2014-15.