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Bihar cabinet expansion: Check the list of ministers, their portfolios here
A total of 31 ministers have taken oath - 16 from RJD, 11 from JD(U), two from Congress and one each from HAM-S and independent.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar expanded his cabinet Tuesday - days after the Janata Dal (United) boss took oath as chief minister for an eighth time. He was joined by Rashtriya Janata Dal leader (and former rival) Tejashwi Yadav, who became his deputy. The Bihar cabinet has room for 36 ministers (based on the assembly strength of 243) and 31 were sworn in today. Of these, over half were from the RJD, with 11 from Nitish Kumar's JDU, two from the Congress and one from the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) of former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi. The 31st cabinet member is an independent lawmaker.
The BJP-JDU Bihar government collapsed this month after Nitish Kumar walked out of the alliance and returned to the Mahagathbandhan fold.
Soon after the swearing-in, the portfolios were also distributed.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar has kept home department, deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav gets health department, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary gets finance department, RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav to be the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Check the list of ministers who have taken oath so far:
RJD:
Tej Pratap Yadav - Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Alok Mehta- Revenue & Land Reforms
Ramanand Yadav - Mines and Geology
Surendra Prasad Yadav- Co-operative
Lalit Kumar Yadav - Public Health & Engineering
Chandrashekhar - Education
Kumar Sarvajeet - Tourism
Samir Kumar Mahaseth - Industries
Jitendra Kumar Rai- Art, Culture & Youth Affairs
Anita Devi- Welfare (Backward & Economically Backward Classes)
Sudhakar Singh- Agriculture
Israel Mansuri- Information Technology
Surendra Ram- Labour Resources
Kartikeya Singh- Law
Shahnawaz Alam- Disaster Management
Shamim Ahmed- Sugarcane
JD(U):
Vijay Kumar Chowdhary- Finance Department
Bijendra Yadav- Energy, Planning, and Development
Ashok Chowdhary- Building Construction
Shravan Kumar- Rural Development
Leshi Singh- Food & Consumer Protection Department
Madan Sahni- Social Welfare
Sheela Kumari Mandal - Transport
Sunil Kumar- Registration & Prohibition
Mohd Zama Khan-Minority Welfare
Jayant Raj-Minor Water Resources
Sanjay Jha - Water Resources and Information & Public Relations
Congress:
Afaq Alam- Animal Husbandry & Fisheries
Murari Gautam-Panchayati Raj
HAM-S:
Santosh Kumar Suman- Minor Irrigation and SC/ST Welfare
Independent:
Sumit Kumar Singh- Science & Technology
