India, Nov. 21 -- On November 20, Nitish Kumar took the oath as the chief minister of Bihar for the record tenth time, the highest for any chief minister in India. Along with Kumar, 26 other ministers were also administered the oath of office on Thursday. To be sure, the current strength of the Council of Ministers (CoM) is lower than what it has been in the past and we will likely see more ministers being sworn in later.

This, however, should not stop us from analysing the latest CoM on various aspects. How is Nitish Kumar's current Council of Ministers (CoM) different from his previous ones? Ideally, one should have asked this question vis-a-vis all CoMs Bihar has had, but a gap in data availability - there is no official list of Bihar...