The cabinet portfolios of 18 ministers in CM Nitish Kumar government has been announced and this time, BJP’s Samrat Choudhary has been given the Home Department, which was with Nitish Kumar since 2005. Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha continue to remain the Deputy CMs.
The NDA alliance won the Bihar assembly elections with a thumping majority by winning 202 seats of the 243-member house.
So far, the ministerial berth of all the BJP leaders in the cabinet, LJP(RV), HAM and RLM have been announced.
Here is who got what in Bihar under Nitish 10.0
Samrat Choudhary – Home Department
Vijay Kumar Sinha – Land and Revenue Departments
Mangal Pandey – Health and Law Departments
Dilip Kumar Jaiswal – Industry Ministry
Nitin Nabin – Road Construction Department and Urban Development and Housing Department.
Ram Kripal Yadav – Agriculture Ministry
Sanjay Singh Tigar – Labour Resources
Arun Shankar Prasad – Tourism Department and Art, Culture and Youth Affairs
Surendra Mehta – Animal and Fisheries Resources
Narayan Prasad – Disaster Management Department
Rama Nishad – Backward and Extremely Backward Class Welfare Department
Lakhendra Kumar Raushan – Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare Department
Shreyashi Singh – Information Technology and Sports Departments
Pramod Kumar – Cooperation and Environment–Forest–Climate Change departments.
Sanjay Kumar (LJP-RV) – Sugarcane Industries Department
Sanjay Kumar Singh (LJP-RV) – Public Health Engineering Department
Santosh Kumar Suman – (HAM) – Minor Water Resources Department
Deepak Prakash – (RLM) – Panchayati Raj Department
Bihar cabinet structure
The BJP has 14 ministers in the cabinet, while the JD(U) has nine including CM Nitish Kumar. Chirag Paswan‘s LJP(RV) got two ministers, whereas Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM(S) and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLM got one minister each. Two women ministers have been inducted in the Bihar Cabinet.
Apart from Nitish Kumar, 26 other leaders also took oath as ministers of the state cabinet.
