Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday distributed portfolios to ministers within the newly shaped Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities, handing over the essential Residence division to ally Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP). This marks the primary time since 2005 that Kumar is not going to retain the Residence portfolio, signalling a major shift in power-sharing throughout the coalition.
Deputy Chief Minister and BJP chief Samrat Choudhary has been assigned the Residence division, whereas Kumar has saved the Common Administration, Cupboard Secretariat, Vigilance, Election, and different unallocated departments below his management.
Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha will oversee the Land and Income departments together with Geology and Mines. Mangal Pandey has retained the Well being division and has additionally been given the Regulation division. BJP state chief Dilip Jaiswal takes cost of Industries, whereas Nitin Nabin will deal with the Roads and City Growth departments.
Arun Shankar Prasad will head Tourism in addition to Artwork, Tradition and Youth, and Ramkripal Yadav will handle the Agriculture division. Lakhendra Kumar Raushan will oversee SC/ST Welfare, Sanjay Singh ‘Tiger’ has been allotted Labour Sources, and Narayan Prasad will lead Catastrophe Administration. Shreyasi Singh has been assigned Info and Public Relations together with Sports activities.
Surendra Mehta will take cost of the Animal and Fisheries Sources division, whereas Rama Nishad has been given the Backward and Extraordinarily Backward Lessons Welfare portfolio. Pramod Kumar has been allotted Cooperation and also will oversee the Atmosphere, Forests and Local weather Change division.
Smaller allies accommodated; 12 new faces in Cupboard
From JD(U), Ashok Choudhary will lead the Rural Works division. Santosh Kumar Suman of Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM(S) will oversee Training and Minor Irrigation. LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Sanjay Kumar Paswan, a first-time MLA, has been given the Sugarcane Trade portfolio, whereas the social gathering’s Sanjay Kumar Singh will deal with Public Well being Engineering. RLM’s Deepak Prakash has been allotted Panchayati Raj.
Altogether, 14 leaders from the BJP have secured portfolios, reflecting the social gathering’s place because the single-largest constituent with 89 Meeting seats. The cupboard enlargement launched 12 new faces, together with sons of Upendra Kushwaha and Jitan Ram Manjhi, and former taking pictures champion Shreyasi Singh.
Bihar’s longest-serving CM: Nitish Kumar
Having taken oath as Chief Minister for a file tenth time, Nitish Kumar is already Bihar’s longest-serving CM. If his authorities completes its time period, he might surpass Jyoti Basu’s 23-year tenure in West Bengal and be a part of leaders like Pawan Kumar Chamling and Naveen Patnaik, who’ve led their states for practically 25 and over 24 years, respectively.
Nitish’s political journey features a transient seven-day tenure in 2000, adopted by full phrases between 2005–2010 and 2010–2014. He resigned in 2014 after JD(U)’s electoral setback, however returned in 2015 after Jitan Ram Manjhi stepped down forward of a belief vote.
Leaders throughout BJP, JD(U), and LJP (Ram Vilas) hailed the brand new cupboard as “historic”, expressing confidence that the NDA authorities, backed by a powerful mandate, would ship on public expectations.
The swearing-in ceremony happened at Patna’s iconic Gandhi Maidan—additionally the positioning the place Jayaprakash Narayan delivered his well-known name for a “whole revolution” in 1974. Governor Arif Mohammad Khan administered the oath within the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
