Big Shift in Bihar Cabinet as Newly Formed Govt Announces Portfolios: Who Got What

Patna:

A day after Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the 10th time, the newly formed government announced portfolios for its ministers on Friday.

In Big Shift, JDU Gets Finance, BJP Gets Home

According to an official notification, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has retained the General Administration Department, Cabinet Secretariat, and Vigilance portfolios, while Bihar Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary has been allotted the Home portfolio.On the other hand, the Finance portfolio, which has been held by the BJP whenever it has entered into an alliance with the JD(U), has gone to the Nitish Kumar-led party this time. Senior leader Bijendra Prasad Yadav got the Finance and Commercial Tax departments.

Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha Gets Revenue & Land reforms and Mines & Geology departments

Another Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha got Revenue & Land reforms and Mines & Geology departments, the notification said.While senior JD(U) leader Shrowan Kumar has been given portfolios of Rural Development and Transport departments, his party colleague Ashok Chowdhary got the Rural Works department portfolio.JD(U) leader Vijay Chowdhary has been given the portfolios of Building Construction, Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs, while Madan Sahni of the same party got the Social Welfare department portfolio, the notification said.The BJP's Shreyasi Singh has been given portfolios of Sports and Information and Technology, while her party's Arun Shankar Prasad got the Tourism department. Sanjay Tiger, also of the BJP, has been given the Labour Resources department, it said.

What Other NDA Allies HAM, LJP-Ram Vilas Have Got

Deepak Prakash of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party and HAM(S)'s Santosh Suman have been given the portfolios of Panchayati Raj department and Minor Water Resources department, respectively.LJP (RV) MLAs Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Singh became Sugarcane and Public Health Engineering Department ministers.Other members of the Cabinet included Mangal Pandey (Health and Law), Dilip Jaiswal (Industries), Leshi Singh (Food Consumer and Protection), Nitin Nabin (Road Construction and Urban Development and Housing), Ram Kripal Yadav (Agriculture), Sunil Kumar (Education, and Science, Technology and Technical Education department).Mohd Zama Khan (Minority Affairs), Surendra Mehta (Animal and Fishery Resources), Narayan Prasad (Disaster Management), Rama Nishad (Backward Class and Extremely Backward Classes welfare), Lakhendra Kumar Roshan (SC and ST Welfare) and Pramod Kumar (Cooperative) are also the remaining members of the Cabinet, the notification said.Nitish Kumar was on Thursday sworn in as the Bihar chief minister for a record 10th term here at a grand ceremony.Along with 74-year-old Kumar, 26 ministers took the oath of office: 14 from the Bharatiya Janata Party, eight from Janata Dal (United), two from Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ram Vilas), and one each from Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM).With inputs from PTI