The cabinet of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has been expanded. A total of 31 MLAs took oath today. Governor Fagu Chauhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to 31 ministers at Raj Bhavan. The RJD has got the maximum representation in this government of the Grand Alliance. 16 ministers have taken oath from its quota while 11 ministers were administered oath from JD-U. Two people have been made ministers from Congress. One member from Manjhi’s party Hum and one independent has been made a mantra.
According to the information, there will be 31 ministers including the Chief Minister in the Bihar cabinet. The vacant posts will be filled after the swearing-in of these ministers on Tuesday. CM Nitish Kumar will be in charge of five ministries including Home while Deputy CM Tejashwi has been given the responsibility of four departments including health. Tejashwi’s elder brother and RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav has been given the charge of Forest and Environment Ministry. On this side the Department of the Ministry of Education is in the quota of RJD, while the Ministry of Finance has come under the JD-U. In the BJP-JDU government, the finance ministry was with the saffron party. After this, the oath was administered to the MLAs in the order of 5 ministers each.
#BiharCabinetExpansion , Portfolios allocated – CM Nitish Kumar keeps Home Dept, Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav gets Health Dept, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary gets Finance Dept. RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav to be the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change pic.twitter.com/UYpvzwzJgl
— ANI (@ANI) August 16, 2022
List of leaders who were sworn in
Tej Pratap Yadav-RJD
Alok Kumar Mehta-RJD
Anita Devi-RJD
Surendra Prasad Yadav-RJD
Chandrashekhar-RJD
Lalit Yadav-RJD
Jitendra Kumar Rai-RJD
Ramanand Yadav-RJD
Sudhakar Singh-RJD
Kumar Sarvjeet-RJD
Surendra Ram-RJD
Shamim Ahmed-RJD
Mo. Shahnawaz Alam-RJD
Mo. Israel Mansoori-RJD
Karthik Singh-RJD
Sameer Kumar Mahaseth-RJD
Vijay Kumar Choudhary-JDU
Bijendra Prasad Yadav – JDU
Ashok Choudhary-JDU
Sheela Mandal-JDU
Shravan Kumar-JDU
Sanjay Jha-JDU
Lacey Singh-JDU
Mo. Jama Khan-JDU
Jayant Raj Kushwaha-JDU
Madan Sahni-JDU
Sunil Kumar-JDU
Mo. A. Alam-Congress
Murari Prasad Gautam – Congress
Santosh Suman Manjhi – Hum
Sumit Singh – Swatantra
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