Bihar cabinet portfolio allocation: CM Nitish retains home, Deputy CM Tarkishore gets finance (FULL LIST)

New Delhi: Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Nitish Kumar who took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the fourth straight term yesterday, allocated portfolios among his new council of ministers. A 14-member council of ministers was also sworn in Patna along with Nitish Kumar.

There are 7 ministers from BJP, 5 from JDU and each one from HAM and VIP in the newly-elected NDA government.

While Nitish Kumar has kept the home ministry for himself, one of the deputy chief minister Tarkishore Prasad has been given the charge of the finance ministry, commercial tax, environment, forest and disaster management, urban development and information technology departments.

Check the full list of ministers and their departments here: 

Nitish Kumar (JDU) – Chief Minister— Home, General Administration, Vigilance, and all other departments which are yet to be allocated any minister

Tarkishore Prasad (BJP) – Deputy CM—Finance, Commercial Taxes, Environment and Forest, IT, Disaster Management, Urban Development

Renu Devi (BJP) – Deputy Chief Minister — Panchayati Raj, Backward Caste Uplift, Extremely Backward Class Welfare, and Industry.

Vijay Choudhary (JDU) – Rural Engineering, Rural Development, Water Resources, Information and Broadcasting, and Parliamentary affairs.

Mangal Pandey (BJP) – Health, Road, Art and culture

Rampreet Paswan (BJP) – Public Health Engineering Department

Amarendra Pratap Singh (BJP) – Agriculture, Cooperative, Sugar Cane

Jivesh Mishra (BJP) – Tourism, Labour, Mines

Ram Surat Rai (BJP) – Revenue, Law

Bijendra Yadav (JDU) – Energy, Prohibition, Planning, Food, and Consumer Affairs.

Mewalal Choudhary (JDU) – Education

Ashok Choudhary (JDU) – Minority and Social Welfare Department, Building Construction Department

Santosh Manjhi (HAM) – Minor Irrigation and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Welfare portfolios