Bihar Cabinet Expansion: Former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant Kumar, BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha and 29 other lawmakers were sworn in as ministers in Samrat Choudhary-led Bihar government on Thursday.
Governor Syed Ata Hasnain administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly inducted ministers. The swearing-in ceremony was conducted in groups of five ministers each.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief Nitin Nabin and several other dignitaries were present in Patna’s Gandhi Maidan and attended the first cabinet expansion of the BJP-led NDA government in the state.
The expanded cabinet also included representatives of Union Minister Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular).
This cabinet expansion is crucial Nishant Kumar also joined the Bihar government. He formally entered politics and joined the Janata Dal (United) following his father’s resignation from the Bihar assembly.
JD(U) leaders and workers had been keen to see Nishant in the government. However, he had initially declined any official role, preferring to work at the organisational level before accepting a ministerial responsibility.
From BJP –
Vijay Kumar Sinha
Ram Kripal Yadav
Kedar Gupta
Nitish Mishra
Mithilesh Tiwari
Rama Nishad
Dilip Jaiswal
Shreyasi Singh
Pramod Chandravanshi
Lakhvinder Paswan
Sanjay Tiger
Engineer Kumar Shailendra
Nand Kishore Ram
Ramchandra Prasad
Arun Shankar Prasad
From JDU-
Nishant Kumar
Shravan Kumar
Ashok Choudhary
Ratnesh Sada
Madan Sahni
Lesi Singh
Shweta Gupta
Bulo Mandal
Damodar Rawat
Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha
Sunil Kumar
Sheela Mandal
Jama Khan
From LJP –
Sanjay Paswan
Sanjay Singh
From HAM
Santosh Suman
From RLM –
Deepak Prakash
The cabinet expansion came after BJP’s Samrat Choudhary assumed the charge of chief minister on April 15 after Nitish Kumar quit the post and joined the Rajya Sabha.
Along with Choudhary, JD(U)’s Vijay Kumar Choudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav had taken oath as members of the Council of Ministers.
