Altogether, 32 Ministers drawn from all constituents of the five-party National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the State were administered the oath of office by Governor Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Syed Ata Hasnain.
BJP-led government in Bihar
The BJP-led government was formed last month after JD(U) national president Nitish Kumar resigned as Chief Minister following his election to the Rajya Sabha. He was succeeded by Mr. Choudhary, the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader to head a government in Bihar.
Samrat Choudhary was sworn in as the first BJP Chief Minister of Bihar, ending Nitish Kumar’s 21-year tenure at the helm of the State.
Bihar’s new Cabinet
Most of the new inductees had been part of the Nitish Kumar Cabinet formed in November last year, after the NDA returned to power in the Assembly elections.
Those sworn in as Ministers included Nishant Kumar, Shrawon Kumar, Vijay Kumar Sinha, Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, Leshi Singh, Ram Kripal Yadav, Nitish Mishra, Damodar Rawat, Sanjay Singh (Tiger) and Ashok Choudhary.
The JD(U) has a total of 15 Ministers in the Council of Ministers, including Vijay Kumar Choudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav as Deputy Chief Ministers.
Sanjay Kumar Singh and Sanjay Kumar Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), led by Union Minister Chirag Paswan, were also inducted into the Cabinet. Santosh Kumar Suman and Deepak Prakash, sons of Union Ministers Jitan Ram Manjhi of the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Upendra Kushwaha of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM), respectively, were among those who returned to the government.
The full list of Ministers newly inducted into the Bihar government is as follows:
Chief Minister: Samrat Choudhary (BJP)
Deputy Chief Ministers: Vijay Kumar Choudhary (JD-U), Bijendra Prasad Yadav (JD-U)
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
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
Sanjay Kumar Paswan
Sanjay Kumar Singh
Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)
Santosh Kumar Suman
Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM)
Deepak Prakash