Following Nitish Kumar’s move to the Rajya Sabha, the Bihar cabinet was expanded on Thursday, with the BJP getting the largest share of 15 berths and the JD(U) securing 13 in the new council of ministers. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s son, Nishant Kumar, is also set to join the cabinet for the first time.
Bihar Cabinet expansion: Full list of ministers:
Nitish Kumar, who had served as the chief minister of Bihar for the longest period of time, relinquished the post in order to move to the Rajya Sabha. His 45-year-old son, who had until now stayed away from active politics, agreed to enter public life upon the insistence of JD(U) workers who were anxious about the party’s prospects after the supremo gave up power.
Bihar Cabinet expansion: Full list of ministers:
BJP
- Ram Kripal Yadav
- Kedar Gupta
- Nitish Mishra
- Mithlesh Tiwari
- Rama Nishad
- Vijay Kumar Sinha
- Dilip Jaiswal
- Pramod Chandravanshi
- Lakhvinder Paswan
- Sanjay Tiger
- Engineer Kumar Shailendra
- Nand Kishore Ram
- Ramchandra Prasad
- Arun Shankar Prasad
- Shreyasi Singh
JD(U)
- Nishant Kumar
- Shravan Kumar
- Madan Sahni
- Lesi Singh
Shweta Gupta
- Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha
- Damodar Rawat
- Bulo Mandal
- Sunil Kumar
- Sheila Mandal
- Ratnesh Sada
- Jama Khan
- Ashok Choudhary
LJP(R)
- Sanjay Paswan
- Sanjay Singh
