Patna, Feb. 26 -- As Bihar gears up for assembly polls later this year, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday expanded his cabinet with seven Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs taking oath as ministers.

Sanjay Saraogi, Sunil Kumar, Jibesh Mishra, Krishna Kumar Mantoo, Motilal Prasad, Vijay Kumar Mandal and Raju Kumar Singh took oath as ministers.

Bihar Deputy Chief Parliament, Samrat Chaudhary, congratulated the newly-inducted ministers and said they will work for Bihar's development.

"I congratulate all seven ministers who will work for the development of Bihar under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar," Chaudhary said.

Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal said that both the government and the people will benefit from the experience of new me...