Chief minister Nitish Kumar (right) welcomes Bihar's governor-designate Lal Ji Tandon at Patna airport on Wednesday. Tandon is slated to take oath at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday.

Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav, road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav, health minister Mangal Pandey, education and law minister Krishan Nandan Prasad Verma, chief secretary Deepak Kumar, director-general of police KS Dwivedi, and other ministers and senior officials were present at the airport to welcome Tandon.

Text by Dev Raj, picture by Nagendra Kumar Singh