Bihar Cabinet Portfolio Allocation: CM Nitish Keeps Home, Tarkishore Gets Finance | Full List

While Nitish kept the home portfolio for himself, the ministries earlier handled by his closest aide and former deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi were given to Tarkishore Prasad.

New Delhi: Nitish Kumar, the Janata Dal United president who took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the fourth straight term yesterday, distributed the portfolios among his new council of ministers. The decision for portfolio distribution was taken on Tuesday during the meeting of the new cabinet ministers.

While Nitish kept the home portfolio for himself, the ministries earlier handled by his closest aide and former deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi were given to Tarkishore Prasad.

Notably, BJP’s Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi were made the two deputy chief ministers in Bihar.

Check full list of ministers and their portfolios here

Nitish Kumar (JDU) – Chief Minister— Home, General Administration, Vigilance, and all other departments which are yet to be allocated any minister

Tarkishore Prasad (BJP) – Deputy CM—Finance, Commercial Taxes, Environment and Forest, IT, Disaster Management, Urban Development

Renu Devi (BJP) – Deputy Chief Minister — Panchayati Raj, Backward Caste Uplift, Extremely Backward Class Welfare, and Industry.

Vijay Choudhary (JDU) – Rural Engineering, Rural Development, Water Resources, Information and Broadcasting, and Parliamentary affairs.

Mangal Pandey (BJP) – Health, Road, Art and culture

Rampreet Paswan (BJP) – Public Health Engineering Department

Amarendra Pratap Singh (BJP) – Agriculture, Cooperative, Sugar Cane

Jivesh Mishra (BJP) – Tourism, Labour, Mines

Ram Surat Rai (BJP) – Revenue, Law

Bijendra Yadav (JDU) – Energy, Prohibition, Planning, Food, and Consumer Affairs.

Mewalal Choudhary (JDU) – Education

Ashok Choudhary (JDU) – Minority and Social Welfare Department, Building Construction Department,

Santosh Manjhi (HAM) – Minor Irrigation and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Welfare portfolios

Mukesh Sahni (VIP) –  Animal Husbandry and Fisheries.

Meanwhile, in its first meeting today, the new cabinet headed by CM Nitish gave its nod to a five-day session of the bicameral Bihar legislature from November 23.

“The state cabinet approved the Parliamentary Affairs Department’s proposal to convene the first session of the 17th assembly and 196th session of the legislative council from November 23 to November 27”, minister Amarendra Pratap Singh of the BJP stated.