After the cabinet expansion in Bihar, departments have been divided among the ministers. Apart from Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary, 15 leaders from BJP quota have been made ministers. Whereas 13 ministers have been made from JDU quota. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav from JDU had already taken oath as Deputy CMs. Two ministers have been made from Chirag Paswan’s party LJP (R), while one minister each from Jitan Ram Manjhi’s party HAM and Upendra Kushwaha’s party RLM.
While BJP has kept the Home Department with itself, it has given the Finance Department to JDU. While education is with BJP, health has been given to JDU. Agriculture department has gone to BJP’s quota, while building construction, transport and social welfare have been given to JDU. An attempt has been made to create balance in the distribution of departments between JDU and BJP.
Who got which department from BJP?
- Samrat Chaudhary (Chief Minister)- General Administration, Home, Cabinet Secretariat, Surveillance, Elections, Civil Aviation, all such departments which are not allotted to anyone.
- Vijay Kumar Sinha- Agriculture Department
- Dilip Kumar Jaiswal- Revenue and Land
- Ramkripal Yadav- Cooperative
- Nitish Mishra- Urban Development and Housing, Information Technology
- Shreyasi Singh- Industry, Sports
- Mithlesh Tiwari- Education
- Rama Nishad- Backward Class and Most Backward Class Welfare
- Kedar Prasad Gupta- Tourism
- Pramod Kumar- Mines and Geology, Art and Culture
- Lakhendra Kumar Roshan- Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare
- Sanjay Singh Tiger- Higher Education, Law Minister
- Kumar Shailendra- Road Construction
- Arun Shankar Prasad- Labor Resources and Migrant, Youth Employment and Skill Development
- Ramchandra Prasad- Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Nandkishore Ram- Dairy, Fish Animal Resources
Who became ministers from JDU, what responsibility did they get?
- Vijay Kumar Chaudhary- Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs
- Bijendra Prasad Yadav- Finance, Commercial Tax
- Shravan Kumar- Rural Development, Information and Public Relations
- Nishant Kumar- Health
- Madan Sahani- Prohibition Products and Regulations
- Leshi Singh- Building Construction
- Damodar Rawat- Transport
- Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha- Planning and Development
- Shailesh Kumar alias Bulo Mandal- Energy
- Sweta Gupta- Social Welfare
- Sunil Kumar- Rural Work
- Sheela Kumari alias Sheela Mandal- Science, Technology and Technical Education
- Ratnesh Saada- Disaster Management
- Ashok Chaudhary- Food and Consumer Protection
- Jama Khan- Minority Welfare
Who gets which department from Chirag Paswan’s party?
- Sanjay Kumar Singh- Public Health Engineering
- Sanjay Kumar- Sugarcane Industry
Along with this, Santosh Kumar Suman from Jitan Ram Manjhi’s party HAM has again taken oath as minister. He has got the responsibility of Lugh Water Resources Department. Apart from this, his son Deepak Prakash from Upendra Kushwaha’s party RLM has again got a place in the cabinet. He has been entrusted with the responsibility of Panchayati Raj Department. Bihar Governor Syed Ata Hasnain administered the oath of office and secrecy to all 32 NDA leaders in a grand ceremony held on Thursday (07 May) at Gandhi Maidan in Patna.