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Manjhi ministry

Government of Bihar, India (2014–15)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ127110143 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of ministers from Jitan Ram Manjhi's cabinet, starting on 20 May 2014.

Following the JD(U)'s poor showing in the 2014 general election, Nitish Kumar accepted responsibility for the defeat and resigned from the position of Chief Minister. Jitan Ram Manjhi, the Minister for SC and ST welfare in Nitish's cabinet, replaced him as the 23rd Chief Minister of Bihar.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Manjhi ministry” is government of Bihar, India (2014–15). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Manjhi, ministry and Government, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014-05-20. For this dossier, Manjhi, ministry and Government is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “government of Bihar, India (2014–15)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q127110143. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Manjhi ministry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.