IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1354 of 2011 Patna Nagrik Parishad through its Secretary, Arbind Kumar Sinha S/o Late Sarbeshwar Prasad Sinha, Registered Office- B/2, Housing Colony, Kankarbagh, Patna-20 ........... ....... ..... ............Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through its Chief Secretary, Bihar, Patna 2. Principal/ Private Secretary to Sri Sushil Kumar Modi, Dy Chief Minister, Government of Bihar, Patna 3. Principal Secretary to Sri Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister, 1- Anne Marg, Government of Bihar, Patna 4. Bihar Vidhan Sabha, through its Chairman, Patna 5. Bihar Vidhan Parishad, through its Chairman, Patna 6. Principal Secretary to the Governor of Bihar, Patna .. .. .....Respondents ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Sunil Kumar, Advocate For the State: Mr. Lalit Kishore, AAG I For the respondent no.4: Mr. D. K. Sinha, Sr. Advocate ------------ 2 21-01-2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Petitioner has preferred this writ petition by way of Public Interest Litigation with a prayer that the State of Bihar should not describe any person as Deputy Chief Minister because that term is not mentioned in the Constitution of India and the oath prescribed for Ministers also does not contemplate any oath for the office of Deputy Chief Minister. Many practices develop in a democracy as per requirement of the times and such practices may include labeling some Minister as Deputy Chief Minister. If such 2 labeling violates any Statutory or Constitutional provision then the State may be prohibited from conferring such labeling upon any Minister. However, in the present case we could not be shown any Statutory or Constitutional provision debarring the State from describing a Minister as Deputy Chief Minister. Hence, we do not find any good reason to entertain this writ petition. It is, accordingly, dismissed. BKS/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J.)