On Thursday, Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the CM of Bihar for a record tenth time. His two deputies, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha, took their oaths later. The new cabinet of ministers in Bihar has been officially unveiled as chief minister Nitish Kumar allocated the departments to the NDA leaders on Friday. Kumar has kept the general administration department, cabinet secretariat and vigilance portfolios.
Among the other notable names was deputy chief minister and BJP leader Samrat Choudhary, who will be leading the home affairs department. On Thursday, Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the chief minister of Bihar for a record tenth time at a grand ceremony in Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan. After Kumar, his two deputies, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, both from the BJP, took their oaths.
Twenty-four other ministers took the oath in groups of six. They included eight from the Janata Dal (United), 14 from the BJP, two from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and one each from the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha.
Here’s who got what in the new Bihar cabinet:
Bihar cabinet unveiled: Who got what?
Nitish Kumar – General Administration; Cabinet Secretariat; Vigilance; Any department not allocated to any minister
Samrat Chaudhary – Home
Vijay Kumar Sinha – Revenue and Land Reforms; Mines and Geology
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary – Water Resources; Commercial Taxes; Information and Public Relations; Parliamentary Affairs
Bijendra Prasad Yadav – Energy; Planning and Development; Food and Consumer Protection; Weights and Measures; Commercial Tax (Excise)
Shravan Kumar – Rural Development; PHED (Public Health Engineering)
Mangal Pandey – Health; Law
Dr Hetal Kumari Jayswal – Industries
Ashok Choudhary – Rural Works
Leshi Singh – Food and Consumer Protection
Nitin Nabin – Road Construction; Urban Development and Housing
Madan Sahni – Social Welfare
Satya Kumar Yadav – Agriculture
Amrendra Pratap Shahi – Minority Welfare
Sunil Kumar – Water Resources
Md Jama Khan – Minority Welfare
Sanjay Singh ‘Tiger’ – Labour Resources
Arun Shankar Prasad – Tourism
Suresh Mehta – Animal and Fisheries Resources
Narayan Prasad – Disaster Management
Renu Devi – Backward and Extremely Backward Class Welfare
Sanjeev Kumar ‘Arun’ – Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare
Shreyasi Singh – Information Technology; Sports
Dr Prem Kumar – Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Ram Surat Kumar – Revenue; Land Reforms
Sanjay Kumar Singh – Public Health Engineering
Deepak Prakash – Panchayati Raj
In the recently concluded elections, the NDA returned to power in the state, winning 202 seats in the 243-member assembly.
The BJP won 89 seats, JD(U) secured 85, LJP (RV) won 19, HAM got five, and RLM finished with four seats.
