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For the archetypal clip successful his 2 decades arsenic Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar has fixed up the Home section and different cardinal portfolios to his allies successful the Bharatiya Janata Party, which emerged arsenic the azygous largest enactment with 89 seats successful the State Assembly predetermination earlier this month.
Mr. Kumar allocated portfolios to 26 Ministers connected Friday (November 21, 2025), of which 46% person transgression records, portion 88% are millionaires.
One of his 2 Deputy CMs, BJP person Samrat Choudhary, has been fixed the Home department, a portfolio that Mr. Kumar had antecedently handled personally since November 2005. Other cardinal departments that helium has fixed up to BJP Ministers see Health, Agriculture, Revenue and Land Reforms, Mines, Industry, Road Construction, Urban Development, and Backward and Extremely Backward Class Welfare. The enactment has 14 members successful the Cabinet.
The 8 Ministers from Mr. Kumar’s ain party, the Janata Dal (United), were allocated the Water Resources, Building Construction, Energy, Rural Development, Rural Works, and Education departments, among others. The enactment had won 85 seats successful the Assembly election.
The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), led by Chirag Paswan, had won 19 seats successful the canvass and has been fixed 2 Cabinet berths, successful complaint of Public Health Engineering, and the Sugarcane Industry.
The Rashtriya Lok Morcha, led by Upendra Kushwaha, has been allocated the Panchayati Raj portfolio. This volition beryllium held by Mr. Kushwaha’s lad Deepak Prakash who had taken oath arsenic Minister connected November 20 without being a subordinate of either the precocious oregon little Houses of the Bihar legislature, but is apt to soon beryllium elected arsenic a subordinate of the State Legislative Council. Santosh Suman of the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) has been fixed the Minor Water Resources portfolio.
“Since our Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ji has been an experienced person holding the station of CM for specified a agelong period, helium knows however to utilise the imaginable of leaders and it is arsenic per his experience, the Ministers person been allocated the portfolios”, said JD(U) spokesperson Arvind Nishad. “There is thing to work betwixt the lines. The authorities volition implicit its afloat five-year term,” helium added.
Meanwhile, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said that 46% of the Ministers person transgression records, including 38% person with declared transgression records with superior charges. A whopping 88% of them are millionaires. “Altogether 63% Ministers either are graduates oregon supra and the mean property of 79% of them is betwixt 51 to 80 years, whereas 11% are women,” the ADR reported.
