Nitish hands over Home to BJP, allocates portfolios to 18 ministers in Bihar

Following the formation of the new Bihar government, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has finalised the allocation of ministerial portfolios. After a brief meeting between Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, the full list of departments assigned to ministers was submitted to the Governor.

Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha will continue as Deputy Chief Ministers in the new cabinet. For the first time, the Home Department has been allotted to a BJP leader, marking a significant shift from previous Nitish Kumar-led administrations.

A cabinet meeting will be convened soon, following the portfolio distribution.

Key portfolio allocations

- Samrat Choudhary (Deputy CM): Home

- Vijay Kumar Sinha (Deputy CM): Land and revenue; mines and geology

- Vijay Kumar Chaudhary: Water resources; housing

- Dilip Jaiswal: Industries

- Shravan Kumar: Rural development; transport

- Ashok Choudhary: Rural works

- Vijendra Yadav: Energy

- Mangal Pandey: Health; law

- Lacey Singh: Food and consumer affairs

- Nitin Navin: Road construction; urban development; housing

- Madan Sahni: Social welfare

- Santosh Suman: Minor water resources

- Sunil Kumar: Education

- Ramkripal Yadav: Agriculture

- Jama Khan: Minority affairs

- Sanjay Tiger: Labour resources

- Arun Shankar Prasad: Tourism; art and culture

- Rama Nishad: Backward and extremely backward class welfare

- Surendra Mehta: Animal husbandry and fisheries

- Narayan Prasad: Disaster management

- Lakhendra Paswan: SC/ST welfare

- Shreyasi Singh: Information and sports

- Sanjay Singh: Public health engineering

- Deepak Prakash: Panchayati raj

- Pramod Kumar Chandravanshi: Cooperation; environment and climate change

- Sanjay Paswan: Sugarcane industry