PORTFOLIOS: 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
Anwarul Hoda / PATNA
Thirty one 31 ministers were included in the Nitish Kumar Cabinet today. Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at Raj Bhawan here
RJD got 16 ministerial berths while the JD(U) got 11. Earlier this month, Nitish Kumar decided to snap ties with the BJP and joined hands with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and other parties to form the government.
16 ministers including Alok Mehta, Tejpratap Yadav and Anita Devi are from RJD while 11 including Vijay Chaudhary, Bijendra Yadav and Shravan Kumar are from Janata Dal( United).
Here is the full list of ministers in the Nitish Kumar cabinet:
1. Tej Pratap Yadav, RJD
2. Alok Kumar Mehta, RJD
3. Anita Devi, RJD
4. Surendra Prasad Yadav, RJD
5. Chandra Shekhar, RJD
6. Lalit Yadav, RJD
7. Jitendra Kumar Rai, RJD
8. Rama Nand Yadav, RJD
9. Sudhakar Singh, RJD
10. Kumar Sarvjeet, RJD
11. Surendra Ram, RJD
12. Shamim Ahmad, RJD
13. Mohammed Shahnawaz Alam, RJD
14. Mohammad Israil Mansuri, RJD
15. Kartik Singh, RJD
16. Samir Kumar Mahaseth, RJD
17. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, JD(U)
18. Bijendra Prasad Yadav, JD(U)
19. Ashok Choudhary, JD(U)
20. Sheela Mandal, JD(U)
21. Shrawan Kuma, JD(U)
22. Sanjay Jha, JD(U)
23. Leshi Singh, JD(U)
24. Mohd Zama Khan, JD(U)
25. Jayant Raj Kushwaha, JD(U)
26. Madan Sahni, JD(U)
27. Sunil Kumar, JD(U)
28. Md Afaque Alam, Congress
29. Murari Prasad Gautam, Congress
30. Santosh Suman Manjhi, HAM
31. Sumit Singh, Independent
Congress, which is part of the Grand alliance, got two Cabinet berths including Afaque Alam and Murari Gautam. Santosh Kumar Suman of Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and one independent MLA Sumit Kumar Singh also got ministerial berth in the Grand Alliance Government.
Left parties having 16 MLAs have decided not be a part of the government. Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Bihar and Tejaswi Prasad as Deputy Chief Minister on August 10.
The Nitish Kumar-led-Mahagathbandhan government will go for a floor test on August 24 to prove its majority in the state assembly.
