Nitish Kumar’s New Cabinet: Full List of Bihar Ministers and Their Portfolios

Bihar’s new cabinet was officially announced on Friday, with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar assigning key portfolios to NDA leaders a day after taking oath for a record tenth term. Kumar retained the General Administration, Cabinet Secretariat, Vigilance, and all unallocated departments.

Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Samrat Choudhary has been given charge of the crucial Home Department, while fellow Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha will oversee Revenue & Land Reforms along with Mines & Geology.

Kumar, along with his two deputies, was sworn in on Thursday at a ceremony in Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan. Twenty-four additional ministers—eight from JD(U), 14 from the BJP, two from the LJP (Ram Vilas), and one each from HAM (Secular) and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha—also took oath.

Bihar Cabinet: Full List of Portfolios

Nitish Kumar – General Administration; Cabinet Secretariat; Vigilance; and all unassigned departments
Samrat Chaudhary – Home
Vijay Kumar Sinha – Revenue & Land Reforms; Mines & Geology
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary – Water Resources; Commercial Taxes; Information & Public Relations; Parliamentary Affairs
Bijendra Prasad Yadav – Energy; Planning & Development; Food & Consumer Protection; Weights & Measures; Commercial Tax (Excise)
Shravan Kumar – Rural Development; Public Health Engineering (PHED)
Mangal Pandey – Health; Law
Dr Hetal Kumari Jayswal – Industries
Ashok Choudhary – Rural Works
Leshi Singh – Food & Consumer Protection
Nitin Nabin – Road Construction; Urban Development & Housing
Madan Sahni – Social Welfare
Satya Kumar Yadav – Agriculture
Amrendra Pratap Shahi – Minority Welfare
Sunil Kumar – Water Resources
Md Jama Khan – Minority Welfare
Sanjay Singh ‘Tiger’ – Labour Resources
Arun Shankar Prasad – Tourism
Suresh Mehta – Animal & Fisheries Resources
Narayan Prasad – Disaster Management
Renu Devi – Backward & Extremely Backward Class Welfare
Sanjeev Kumar ‘Arun’ – SC/ST Welfare
Shreyasi Singh – Information Technology; Sports
Dr Prem Kumar – Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Ram Surat Kumar – Revenue; Land Reforms
Sanjay Kumar Singh – Public Health Engineering
Deepak Prakash – Panchayati Raj

Election Outcome

The NDA returned to power in the recent Bihar Assembly elections, winning 202 of 243 seats.
• BJP: 89
• JD(U): 85
• LJP (Ram Vilas): 19
• HAM: 5
• RLM: 4