Bihar Cabinet Ministers portfolios: Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the ninth Chief Minister of Bihar on Sunday at the Raj Bhawan in Patna. He was administered the oath of office by Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar. Along with Nitish Kumar, BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary, Vijay Kumar Sinha and six other leaders also took oath as ministers in the new government. Portfolios were allocated on Saturday (February 3) in the new Bihar cabinet headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who retained the Home department, while Samrat Choudhary, one of the two Deputy Chief Ministers, got finance, and Vijay Kumar Sinha, the other Deputy CM, has been given crucial portfolios of agriculture and road construction.
Bihar: Full list of Ministers and their portfolios
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
General Administration
Home
Cabinet Secretariat
Monitoring
Election
All other departments not allotted to anyone
Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary
Finance
Commercial tax
Urban development and housing
Health
Sports
Panchayati Raj
Industry
Animal and Fisheries Resources
Planning
Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sinha
Agriculture
Road Construction
Revenue and land reforms
Sugarcane Industry
Mines and Geology
Labour resources
Art, Culture and Youth
Minor Water Resources
Public Health Engineering
Ministers in Nitish Kumar Cabinet
JD(U)- Vijay Kumar Choudhary
JD(U)- Vijendra Yadav
JD(U)- Shravan Kumar
BJP- Prem Kumar
HAM- Santosh Kumar Suman
Sumit Kumar Singh (Independent)
Portfolios allocated to the cabinet ministers
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
Water Resource
Parliamentary Affairs
Building construction
Transport
Education
Information and Public Relations
Vijendra Prasad Yadav
Energy
Planning and Development
Prohibition Excise & Registration Department (Excise)
Rural work
Minority Welfare
Prem Kumar
Co-operation
Backward Class and Most Backward Class Welfare
Disaster Management
Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Tourism
Shravan Kumar
Rural Development
Social welfare
Food and Consumer Protection
Santosh Kumar Suman
Information Technology
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare
Science, Technology and Technical Education
Nitish had joined the Mahagathbandhan, also comprising the Congress and RJD, in August 2022, after he severed ties with the BJP accusing it of trying to “split” his party, the JD(U). He formed a new government with a multi-party coalition that included RJD, Congress and three Left parties.
In the current 243-member Bihar Assembly, JD(U) has 45 MLAs and the BJP 78. Kumar also has the support of one Independent member. Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha, which is already a part of the NDA, has four MLAs. The RJD (79) along with the Congress (19) and the Left parties (16) have a combined 114 MLAs, eight short of a majority.