New Delhi: Hours after increasing the cupboard, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday (August 16, 2022) allotted portfolios and retained the all-essential dwelling division, giving him direct management over the state police. The JD(U) chief additionally saved with himself basic administration, cupboard secretariat, election and ‘some other departments not assigned to others’. His Deputy and RJD’s Tejashwi Prasad Yadav was additionally given key portfolios like well being, highway development, city housing and improvement and rural works. Yadav’s elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav has been given setting, forestry and local weather change.
Besides the CM and the deputy CM, solely Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (finance, business tax and parliamentary affairs) and Bijendra Yadav (energy and planning and improvement) have gotten multiple portfolio.
Here’s a have a look at new Bihar Cabinet
- 1. Nitish Kumar (JDU) – Chief Minister (Home, basic administration, cupboard secretariat, election, and some other departments not assigned to others)
- 2. Tejashwi Yadav (RJD) – Deputy CM (Health, highway development, city housing and improvement and rural works)
- 3. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (JDU) – (Finance, business tax and parliamentary affairs)
- 4. Bijendra Yadav (JDU) – (Power and planning and improvement)
- 5. Shravan Kumar (JDU)- (Rural improvement)
- 6. Ashok Choudhary (JDU)- (Building development)
- 7. Leshi Singh (JDU)- (Food and shopper safety)
- 8. Sanjay Kumar Jha (JDU)- (Water assets and data and public relations)
- 9. Madan Sahni (JDU)- (Social welfare)
- 10. Sheela Kumari (JDU)- (Transport)
- 11. Sunil Kumar (JDU)- (Prohibition, excise and registration)
- 12. Mohd Zama Khan (JDU)- (Minority affairs)
- 13. Jayant Raj (JDU)- (Minor water assets)
- 14. Tej Pratap Yadav (RJD)- (Environment, forestry and local weather change)
- 15. Alok Mehta (RJD)- (Revenue and land reforms)
- 16. Surendra Prasad Yadav (RJD)- (Cooperatives)
- 17. Ramanand Yadav (RJD)- (Mining and geology)
- 18. Kumar Sarvajeet (RJD)- (Tourism)
- 19. Lalit Yadav (RJD)- (Public well being engineering)
- 20. Samir Kumar Mahaseth (RJD) – (Industries)
- 21. Chandrashekhar (RJD)- (Education)
- 22. Jitendra Kumar Rai (RJD)-(Art, tradition and youth affairs)
- 23. Anita Devi (RJD)- (OBC and EBC welfare)
- 24. Sudhakar Singh (RJD)-(Agriculture)
- 25. Md Israil Mansuri (RJD)- (Information expertise)
- 26. Surendra Ram (RJD)- (Labour assets)
- 27. Kartikeya Singh (RJD)- (Law)
- 28. Shahnawaz Alam (RJD)- (Disaster administration)
- 29. Shamim Ahmed (RJD)- (Sugarcane trade)
- 30. Afaque Alam (Congress)- (Animal husbandry and fisheries)
- 31. Murari Gautam (Congress)- (Panchayati Raj)
- 32. Santosh Kumar Suman (HAM)- (SC/ST welfare)
- 33. Sumit Kumar Singh (Independent) – (Science and expertise)
Earlier within the day, the 2-member Bihar Cabinet comprising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav was expanded with as many as 31 members being inducted from totally different constituents of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ together with RJD chief Lalu Pratap Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap.
Among the ministers who took the oath in the course of the swearing-in ceremony on the Raj Bhavan within the state capital Patna, 16 had been from RJD, which is the most important social gathering within the state meeting, 11 from Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), two from Congress, one from ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and one Independent.
The variety of Muslims within the new Bihar cupboard is 5, up from just one within the earlier NDA authorities, which fell on August 9 after Nitish snapped ties with the saffron social gathering and joined fingers with the RJD-led alliance.
The RJD has given a big variety of seven berths to Yadavs and has additionally given illustration to the higher castes in line with the broader social outreach by Tejashwi Yadav.
Tej Pratap Yadav, RJD chief and brother of Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, takes oath as a minister within the Bihar cupboard. #BiharCabinetExpansion pic.twitter.com/68zpjRUuPO
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The Bihar cupboard, notably, can have as much as 36 ministers, together with the chief minister. Nitish, nonetheless, has saved 5 berths vacant for future enlargement.
RJD MLAs inducted into Bihar cupboard
Tej Pratap Yadav, Alok Mehta, Surendra Prasad Yadav, Ramanand Yadav, Kumar Sarvajeet, Lalit Yadav, Samir Kumar Mahaseth, Chandrashekhar, Jitendra Kumar Rai, Anita Devi, Sudhakar Singh, Israil Mansuri, Surendra Ram, Kartikeya Singh, Shahnawaz Alam, and Shamim Ahmed had been the RJD MLAs who took the oath.
JD(U) MLAs inducted into Nitish Kumar-led Bihar cupboard
The JD(U) retained most of its ministers within the earlier NDA authorities together with Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Bijendra Yadav, Shravan Kumar, and Leshi Singh. Ashok Choudhary, Sanjay Jha, Madan Sahni, Sheela Kumari, Sunil Kumar, Mohd Zama Khan, and Jayant Raj additionally obtained ministerial berths.
Bihar Congress MLAs who obtained ministerial berths
Bihar Congress MLAs Afaque Alam and Murari Gautam took the oath within the ultimate spherical of the cupboard enlargement. The two leaders have been handpicked as a part of the grand outdated social gathering’s technique to again a Muslim and a Dalit.
HAM’s Santosh Suman returns as a minister
HAM’s Santosh Suman has additionally returned as a minister. The social gathering, which was based by his father and former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manhi, has 4 MLAs and it had give up the NDA expressing solidarity with Nitish Kumar.
The lone Independent Sumit Kumar Singh, whose late father Narendra Singh was an outdated affiliate of the chief minister, was additionally sworn in at this time.
(With company inputs)
