Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will expand his cabinet today. A total of 31 MLAs including one independent are likely to take oath as ministers. The RJD, which has the highest number of 79 MLAs in the Bihar Assembly, is likely to get 16 ministerial berths and the JD(U) which has 45 MLAs is likely to keep 11.

Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) is likely to get one ministerial berth and Congress, which is part of the Grand alliance, is likely to have two Cabinet berths. Left parties having 16 MLAs will not be the part of the government. Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Bihar and Tejaswi Prasad as Deputy Chief Minister on August 10.