PM Modi congratulates Nitish Kumar on being sworn in as Bihar CM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday congratulated Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi on being sworn in as the chief minister and the deputy chief minister respectively and said he looked forward to working together for Bihar's prosperity.

"Congratulations to @NitishKumar ji & @SushilModi ji.Looking forward to working together for Bihar's progress &prosperity," he tweeted Kumar and Sushil Modi were administered the oath ofoffice by Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at the Raj Bhawan in Patna on Thursday.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 27, 2017

Prodded by Kumar, the JD(U) had walked out of the NDA in July 2013, ending the 17-year-old alliance, after NarendraModi was nominated head of the BJP's campaign committee forthe 2014 Lok Sabha polls. 

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