Nitish Kumar sworn in as Chief Minister for 9th time
JDU's Bijendra Prasad Yadav emerges 'Yadav' face of Nitish-led dispensation in Bihar. He takes oath as a minister.
Bijendra Prasad Yadav was Bihar Minister for Energy, Planning, and Development under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
He has been an incumbent representative for Supaul since 1990.
BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary, Vijay Kumar Sinha take oath as ministers
JDU's Vijay Kumar Chaudhary takes oath as a minister in new Nitish Kumar-led government
#Ram and miracle .... within a week of #RamMandir #PranPratishtha ... #NDA recaptures power in #Bihar -- it has 40 #LokSabha seats.
A total of 8 leaders took oath as cabinet ministers in the new government led by Nitish Kumar.
Three from BJP – Samrat Choudhary, Vijay Kumar Sinha, Prem Kumar. Three from JDU – Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Shrawon Kumar and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) President Santosh Kumar Suman and independent MLA Sumit Kumar Singh took oath as ministers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya brought crores of people together, and asserted that the collective strength of the country was visible around the time of the event.
In the first Mann Ki Baat broadcast of this year, PM Modi said the governance of Lord Ram was a source of inspiration for Constitution makers.
"And that is why on January 22 in Ayodhya I had talked about 'Dev to Desh' and 'Ram to Rashtra'," he said. The consecration ceremony in Ayodhya has brought crores of people of the country together, he said.
"Everyone's feeling is the same, everyone's devotion is the same. Ram is in everyone's words, Ram is in everyone's heart," PM Modi said.
During this period, many people sang Ram Bhajans and dedicated them to Lord Ram, while on January 22 evening the whole country lit 'Ram Jyoti' and celebrated Diwali, he noted.
"During this time, the collective strength of the country was visible which also forms the basis of our pledge of a developed India," he said. The collective power will take the country to new heights of progress, he added. In his broadcast, PM Modi also spoke about the Padma awards and said that many people honoured with the awards recently were those who worked at grassroots and away from the limelight to make big changes.
"I am very happy that the system of Padma awards has transformed completely in the last decade. Now it has become people's Padma," he said. The contribution of each one of the Padma awardees is an inspiration for the countrymen, he said and added that many of them were those who brought glory to the country in the world of classical dance, classical music, folk dance, theatre and bhajans.
Many people from abroad have also been honoured with the Padma award, as their work is rendering new heights to Indian culture and heritage, he said.
Lauding the presence of women power in the Republic Day parade, the prime minister said out of the 20 contingents, 11 were all-women.
"We saw that even in the tableaux that went by, all the artistes were women. About one and a half thousand daughters took part in the cultural programs that took place," he said. India of the 21st century is moving ahead with the mantra of women-led development, he said. This time 13 women athletes were honoured with the Arjuna Award, he noted. Lauding organ donors, he said some people perform their duties through social service, some by joining the Army, some by teaching the next generation but there are some who even after the end of life fulfil their responsibilities towards society.
In recent years, there have been more than a thousand people in the country whose families donated their organs after their death, he said and appreciated their family members too. Modi said that the absence of a common language for the terminology of diseases, treatments and medicines in alternative medicines like Ayurveda, Siddha or Unani was a longstanding problem, and said a solution has been now found.
He said, "I am happy to share that the Ministry of AYUSH has categorised the data and terminology related to Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicine, with the help of the World Health Organisation as well. Through the efforts of both, the terminology related to disease and treatment in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha medicine has been codified."
"That slip will help one in knowing one's illness, treatment, what medicines one has been taking, for how long the treatment has been going on, what things one is allergic to," he said.
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Critical, but bird's Eyeview:
"In just over 30 years, India’s political class has travelled from condemning the demolition of the mosque, on the site of which the half-built temple now stands, as an act of sectarian vandalism, to celebrating it as the first act in the re-founding of a hitherto rootless republic. The idol of the infant Ram installed in a temple raised on the site of a razed mosque is to be the icon of this new Hindu nation.
It is a sideshow, because the movement to build a Hindu temple at Ayodhya was never an end in itself; it was a means to an end, the public assertion of Hindu supremacy over India’s religious minorities, particularly its Muslims.
The Bharatiya Janata party’s campaign for the Ram temple was a lever used to prise apart the institutional safeguards that protected India’s nominally secular democracy."
-- Mukul Kesavan is a writer based in Delhi ('The Guardian')
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