Nitish Kumar’s new Bihar cabinet took shape on Thursday, and today the BJP revealed who’s getting which job. The big headline: Samrat Choudhary, the BJP’s legislative party leader, landed the Home Ministry.
That’s a big change. Nitish Kumar always kept that post for himself in earlier NDA governments, so handing it over to Choudhary signals a shift.
Vijay Kumar Sinha, now the BJP’s deputy legislative leader, will run Revenue and Land Reforms. Mangal Pandey hangs on to the Health Ministry and also steps in as Law Minister. Dilip Jaiswal, the BJP’s state president, takes charge of Industries.
Altogether, the NDA announced 18 portfolios in the new cabinet. Ministers from the BJP, LJP(R), HAM, and RLM all have a seat at the table. Twenty-six ministers took the oath on Thursday at a grand event in Patna’s Gandhi Maidan.
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JD(U) ministers, though, are still waiting to learn their roles. Big portfolios like Finance and Transport are still up in the air.
Here’s how the BJP’s cabinet spots shake out so far:
Samrat Choudhary: Home
Vijay Kumar Sinha: Land & Revenue; Mines & Geology
Mangal Pandey: Health; Law
Dilip Jaiswal: Industry
Nitin Nabin: Road Construction; Urban Development & Housing
Ramkripal Yadav: Agriculture
Sanjay Tiger: Labour Resources
Arun Shankar Prasad: Tourism; Art, Culture & Youth Affairs
Surendra Mehta: Animal & Fisheries Resources
Narayan Prasad: Disaster Management
Rama Nishad: Backward & Extremely Backward Class Welfare
Lakhedar Paswan: SC & ST Welfare
Shreyasi Singh: IT; Sports
Pramod Chandravanshi: Cooperation; Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Beyond the BJP, LJP(R) has Sugarcane Industries and Public Health Engineering. HAM picked up Water Resources, and RLM got Panchayati Raj.
Eight ministers are still waiting for their assignments, so expect more updates soon.
