A day after taking the oath as Bihar Chief Minister for a record 10th time, Nitish Kumar on Friday allocated portfolios. As per the allocation, Kumar kept the general administration, cabinet secretariat vigilance departments to himself, while Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary was given the home department. Vijay Kumar Sinha, who is also a Deputy Chief Minister, has been allocated the mines and geology department and the revenue and land reforms department.
On the other hand, Dilip Jaiswal, BJP's Bihar unit chief, was made the industries minister and party leader Mangal Pandey was given the health and law ministries. Nitin Nabin retained the urban development and housing and road construction departments, while Ram Kripal Yadav got agriculture. Sanjay Singh Tiger and Narayan Prasad were given labour resources and disaster management departments, respectively.
Janata Dal United (JDU) leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary was given the water resources, parliamentary affairs, information and public relations department. JDU's Bijendra Prasad Yadav was given the finance, energy, planning and development departments. Shrawan Kumar was given the rural development department and Sunil Kumar the education and science and technology departments.
The two ministers of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) were allocated sugarcane industries and public health engineering portfolios.
| Name | Portfolios |
| Nitish Kumar (JDU) | Chief Minister, General Administration, Cabinet Secretariat Vigilance, Election and other departments not allocated to any minister |
| Vijay Kumar Sinha (BJP) | Deputy Chief Minister and Revenue and Land Reforms, Mines and Geology |
| Samrat Choudhary (BJP) | Deputy Chief Minister and Home |
| Mangal Pandey (BJP) | Health and Law |
| Dilip Jaiswal (BJP) | Industries |
| Nitin Nabin (BJP) | Urban Development and Housing, Road Construction |
| Ram Kripal Yadav (BJP) | Agriculture |
| Sanjay Singh Tiger (BJP) | Labour Resources |
| Arun Shankar Prasad (BJP) | Tourism, Art, Culture and Youth |
| Surendra Mehata (BJP) | Animal and Fisheries Resources |
| Narayan Prasad (BJP) | Disaster Management |
| Rama Nishad (BJP) | Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes Welfare |
| Lakhendra Kumar Raushan (BJP) | Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare |
| Shreyasi Singh (BJP) | Information Technology and Sports |
| Pramod Kumar Chandravanshi (BJP) | Co-operative and Environment and Forest |
| Santosh Kumar Suman (HAM) | Minor Water Resources |
| Deepak Prakash (RLM) | Panchayati Raj |
| Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (JDU) | Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs, Information and Public Relations and Building Construction |
| Bijendra Prasad Yadav (JDU) | Finance, Energy, Planning and Development, Excise and Prohibition and Commercial Taxes |
| Shrawan Kumar (JDU) | Rural Development and Transport |
| Ashok Choudhary (JDU) | Rural Works |
| Leshi Singh (JDU) | Food and Consumer Protection |
| Madan Sahni (JDU) | Social Welfare |
| Sunil Kumar (JDU) | Education and Science and Technology |
| Mohammad Zama Khan (JDU) | Minority Welfare |
| Sanjay Kumar Paswan (LJP-RV) | Sugarcane Industries |
| Sanjay Kumar Singh (LJP-RV) | Public Health Engineering |
Nitish Kumar's grand swearing-in ceremony
Kumar, JDU chief and a member of the Bihar Legislative Council, was sworn in as Bihar chief minister for a record 10th time on Thursday at the Gandhi Maidan in Patna. The oath was administered to him by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. Along with Kumar, 26 ministers – 14 from the BJP, eight from the JDU, two from the LJP-RV, and one each from the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and the Rashtriya Lok Manch (RLM) – were sworn in.
The oath-taking ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda. Apart from them, several other union ministers and chief ministers of National Democratic Alliance-ruled states, including Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu, were present during the swearing-in ceremony.
NDA's sweeping victory in Bihar
The NDA, under Kumar's leadership, swept the two-phased Assembly elections in Bihar, winning 202 seats. The BJP emerged as the single largest party with 89 seats, followed by the JDU, which won 85 seats. The LJP-RV won 19, the HAM(S) five and the RLM four.
The Mahagathbandhan won just 35 seats, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) winning 25 seats, followed by Congress with six, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) with two, and one each for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Indian Inclusive Party (IIP).
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