India, Nov. 20 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate and sitting MLA from the Jamui constituency in Bihar, Shreyasi Singh was took oath on Thursday as a minister in chief minister Nitish Kumar's cabinet.

Singh, who had made her electoral debut in 2020, defeated rival candidate, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Shamshad Alam by a margin of over 54,000 votes in the recently concluded Assembly elections in Bihar.

With the NDA government formation in Bihar, Nitish Kumar took oath as the chief minister of the state for a record 10th time. The NDA registered a historic victory in the polls, bagging 202 seats in the 243-member Bihar Assembly.

The BJP emerged as the single largest party with 89 seats, followed closely by Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (Unite...