Bihar Cabinet: Nitish Retains Home, Tejashwi Gets Health as 31 Ministers Take Oath
New Delhi: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has retained the home department while deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav got key portfolios like health, road construction, urban housing and development and rural works.
Portfolios were allotted in the new cabinet on Tuesday, August 16.
On August 9, Nitish made a clean break with the Bharatiya Janata Party with the support of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and Left to form a new government.
Nitish has also kept with himself general administration, cabinet secretariat, election and any other departments not assigned to others, said an official communication.
Yadav's elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav has been given environment, forestry and climate change.
Besides the CM and the deputy CM, only Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (finance, commercial tax and parliamentary affairs) and Bijendra Yadav (power and planning and development) have got more than one portfolio.
A party-wise break down of portfolios released by PTI has been represented in the following table.
| JD(U) | RJD | Congress | HAM | Independent |
| Nitish Kumar | Tejashwi Yadav | Afaque Alam | Santosh Suman | Sumit Singh |
| Vijay Kumar Chaudhary | Tej Pratap Yadav | Murari Gautam | ||
| Bijendra Yadav | Alok Mehta | |||
| Shravan Kumar | Surendra Prasad Yadav | |||
| Ashok Choudhary | Ramanand Yadav | |||
| Leshi Singh | Kumar Sarvajeet | |||
| Sanjay Jha | Lalit Yadav | |||
| Madan Sahni | Samir Kumar Mahaseth | |||
| Sheela Kumari | Chandrashekhar | |||
| Sunil Kumar | Jitendra Kumar Rai | |||
| Jayant Raj | Anita Devi | |||
| Mohd Zama Khan | Sudhakar Singh | |||
| Md Israil Mansuri | ||||
| Surendra Ram | ||||
| Kartikeya Singh | ||||
| Shahnawaz Alam | ||||
| Shamim Ahmed |
While Nitish Kumar and his deputy were sworn in six days ago on August 10, the remaining 31 ministers took their oath on Tuesday.
(With PTI inputs)
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