Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as the Bihar chief minister again on November 20 at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, The Hindu reported.

This will be the tenth time that Kumar will take oath as the state’s chief minister.

On Monday, the incumbent chief minister submitted the Cabinet’s recommendation to dissolve the current Assembly to Governor Arif Mohammad Khan. All ministers subsequently tendered their resignation.

The Assembly will be formally dissolved on Wednesday, after which Kumar will resign, the newspaper reported.

The ruling National Democratic Alliance won the Bihar Assembly elections on Friday, bagging 202 of the 243 total seats, according to the Election Commission data.

The tally of the Opposition Mahagathbandhan was 35 seats.

As part of the NDA, Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) won 85 seats, almost doubling its tally of 43 seats from the 2020 polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest in terms of seat share after winning 89 of the 101 constituencies it contested, while the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) won 19.

From the Opposition alliance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal won 25 seats, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation clinched two. The Congress won six seats.

A party or an alliance needs 122 seats in the 243-member Assembly to form the government.

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