How can unelected minister stay beyond 6 months? Supreme Court asks Bihar

3 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2026 04:51 PM IST Deepak Prakash, son of RLM leader Upendra Kushwaha, was first appointed Bihar's Panchayati Raj Minister in November 2025 despite not being a legislator, and was reappointed in May 2026 after Samrat Choudhary became chief minister. (Deepak Prakash/X) The Supreme Court Thursday questioned how the Bihar Government can continue to retain a minister who has remained unelected beyond the six-month constitutional limit and asked the state to explain its position. A three-judge bench, presided over by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, was hearing a request to fix a date for hearing a plea challenging the appointment of Deepak Prakash as Panchayati Raj Minister in Bihar for the second time, without having been elected as an Assembly member.“It is a pure