Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday (21 November 2025) has distributed portfolios among 26 ministers of the cabinet. This is the first time in the history of NDA in Bihar that the Home Department has gone to BJP’s account instead of Nitish Kumar. The reins of the Home Department have been handed over to Deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary. If we look at the entire cabinet of Bihar, BJP is seen on the front foot.
These departments are in BJP’s account
- Samrat Chaudhary- Home Department
- Vijay Sinha- Land and Revenue Department, Mining and Geology Department
- Mangal Pandey- Health Department, Law Department
- Dilip Jaiswal- Industry Department
- Nitin Naveen- Road Construction Department, Urban Development and Housing Department
- Ramkripal Yadav- Agriculture Department
- Sanjay Tiger- Labor Resources Department
- Arun Shankar Prasad- Tourism Department, Art Culture and Youth Department
- Surendra Mehta- Animal and Fisheries Resources Department
- Narayan Prasad- Disaster Management Department
- Rama Nishad- Backward Class and Extremely Backward Class Welfare Department
- Lakhendra Paswan- Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare Department
- Shreyasi Singh- Department of Information Technology (IT), Sports Department
- Pramod Chandravanshi- Cooperation Department, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department
JDU got these departments
- Vijendra Yadav- Finance and Energy Department
- Madan Sahani- Social Welfare Department
- Ashok Chaudhary- Rural Affairs Department
- Lacey Singh- Fertilizer Consumer Department
- Shravan Kumar- Rural Development Department, Transport Department
- Vijay Chaudhary- Water Resources, Building Construction Department
- Jama Khan- Minority Department
- Sunil Kumar- Education Department
Which department did LJP (R) minister get?
- Sanjay Kumar- Sugarcane Industry Department
- Sanjay Kumar Singh- Public Health Engineering Department
HAM
Santosh Manjhi- Minor Water Resources Department
R.L.M.
Deepak Prakash- Panchayati Raj Department
The NDA government was sworn in for the 8th time in Bihar on Thursday (20 November 2025). In this, 14 leaders from BJP, 9 from JDU, two from LJP (R), one each from HAM and RLM were made ministers.
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