Bihar Cabinet Ministers List 2025: As the new Bihar cabinet was sworn in on Thursday under Nitish Kumar’s leadership, portfolio allocations for NDA ministers were announced today, with Samrat Choudhary receiving the crucial Home Ministry.
Notably, the Home Ministry, traditionally held by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in previous NDA governments, has this time been handed to Samrat Choudhary, the BJP’s legislative party leader in Bihar.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha, who was elected as the deputy leader of the BJP’s legislative party, has been allotted the Department of Revenue and Land Reforms.
Mangal Pandey, the BJP MLA, retained the key Health Ministry portfolio in the new cabinet. He will also head the Law Department, while BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal has been allotted the Department of Industries.
The NDA unveiled the allocation of 26 portfolios in the new Nitish Kumar–led Bihar cabinet, featuring ministers from the BJP, LJP(R), HAM and RLM. In all, 26 ministers were sworn in on Thursday at the grand ceremony held at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan.
Samrat Choudhary (Deputy CM) – Home Minister
Vijay Kumar Sinha (Deputy CM) – Land & Revenue, Mines & Geology
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary – Water Resources, Building Construction
Dilip Jaiswal – Industries
Shravan Kumar – Rural Development, Transport
Ashok Choudhary – Rural Works
Vijendra Yadav – Energy
Mangal Pandey – Health, Law
Leshi Singh – Food & Consumer Affairs
Nitin Naveen – Road Construction; Urban Development & Housing
Madan Sahni – Social Welfare
Santosh Suman – Minor Water Resources
Sunil Kumar – Education
Ramkripal Yadav – Agriculture
Jama Khan – Minority Welfare
Sanjay Tiger – Labour Resources
Arun Shankar Prasad – Tourism; Art & Culture
Rama Nishad – Backward and Extremely Backward Class Welfare
Surendra Mehta – Animal & Fisheries Resources
Narayan Prasad – Disaster Management
Lakhedar Paswan – Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe Welfare
Shreyasi Singh – Information Technology; Sports
Sanjay Singh – Public Health Engineering
Deepak Prakash – Panchayati Raj
Pramod Kumar Chandravanshi – Cooperation; Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Sanjay Paswan – Sugarcane Industries
The Bihar elections were held in two phases – November 6 and 11 – and the declaration of results took place on November 14. The NDA bagged 202 seats in a sweeping victory, with BJP emerging as the single-largest party with 90 seats.
Source: News18