Kamal Ghorui
PATNA: Bihar’s first cabinet expansion under chief minister Samrat Choudhary took place on Thursday at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, with all ministers taking oath in a high-profile ceremony attended by top NDA leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh.Among the biggest highlights of the expansion was the induction of JD(U) leader Nishant Kumar, son of party patriarch Nitish Kumar, barely weeks after formally entering politics.Nishant Kumar, along with leaders from the BJP, JD(U), LJP(R), HAM(S) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha, was sworn in as minister as the NDA government carried out its first major cabinet reshuffle after sweeping the Bihar Assembly polls.
Full list of ministers who took oath
BJP
- Ram Kripal Yadav
- Kedar Gupta
- Nitish Mishra
- Mithlesh Tiwari
- Rama Nishad
- Vijay Kumar Sinha
- Dilip Jaiswal
- Pramod Chandravanshi
- Lakhvinder Paswan
- Sanjay Singh 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
HAM(S)
Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM)
Senior leaders including Ram Kripal Yadav, Nitish Mishra, Damodar Rawat, Sanjay Singh Tiger and Ashok Choudhary were among those who took oath as ministers in the Samrat Choudhary-led cabinet.The expansion came amid JD(U)’s push for stronger representation in the NDA government after the alliance’s emphatic victory in the Bihar Assembly elections.
