• Source:JND

Bihar Portfolio Allocation: Following the swearing-in of the new Bihar cabinet on Thursday, November 20, under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, portfolio allocations for BJP ministers were announced today. Samrat Choudhary has been assigned the Home Ministry, a key portfolio that was earlier held by Nitish Kumar in previous NDA governments.

BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha, who was elected as the deputy leader of the party’s legislative wing, has been assigned Department of Revenue and Land Reforms. Mangal Pandey, the BJP MLA, continues to hold the crucial Health Ministry portfolio in the new cabinet and will also oversee the Law Department.

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Bihar Portfolio Allocation: Full List

A total of 26 ministers were sworn in on Thursday during a grand ceremony at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Friday announced the allocation of portfolios in the new Bihar cabinet, including ministers from the BJP, JD(U), LJP(R), HAM, and RLM.

In the Bihar portfolio allocation, LJP(R) has been allocated two departments, Sugarcane Industries and Public Health Engineering, while HAM received the Water Resources portfolio, and RLM was given the Panchayati Raj Department.

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Nitish Kumar - Chief Minister, General Administration, Cabinet Secretariat Vigilance, Election and other departments not allocated to any minister

Samrat Choudhary (BJP) - Home Ministry

Vijay Kumar Sinha (BJP) - Land & Revenue; Mines & Geology

Mangal Pandey (BJP) - Health; Law

Dilip Jaiswal (BJP) - Industry

Nitin Naveen (BJP) - Road Construction; Urban Development & Housing

Ramkripal Yadav (BJP) - Agriculture

Sanjay Tiger (BJP) - Labour Resources

Arun Shankar Prasad (BJP) - Tourism; Art, Culture & Youth Affairs

Surendra Mehta (BJP) - Animal & Fisheries Resources

Narayan Prasad (BJP) - Disaster Management

Rama Nishad (BJP) - Backward & Extremely Backward Class Welfare

Lakhedar Paswan (BJP) - Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe Welfare

Shreyasi Singh (BJP) - Information Technology; Sports

Pramod Chandravanshi (BJP) - Cooperation; Environment, Forest & Climate Change

Santosh Kumar Suman (HAM) - Minor Water Resources

Deepak Prakash (RLM) - Panchayati Raj

Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (JDU)- Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs, Information and Public Relations and Building Construction

Bijendra Prasad Yadav (JDU) - Finance, Energy, Planning and Development, Excise and Prohibition and Commercial Taxes

Shrawan Kumar (JDU) - Rural Development and Transport

Ashok Choudhary (JDU) - Rural Works

Leshi Singh (JDU)- Food and Consumer Protection

Madan Sahni (JDU) - Social Welfare

Sunil Kumar (JDU) - Education and Science and Technology

Mohammad Zama Khan (JDU) - Minority Welfare

Sanjay Kumar Paswan (LJP-RV) - Sugarcane Industries

Sanjay Kumar Singh (LJP-RV) - Public Health Engineering


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