Bihar Cabinet Minister Portfolio Allocation: In the Bihar elections that came out on November 14, the BJP emerged as the largest party, winning 89 seats, while the JDU came in second with 85 seats.

Which minister got which department in Nitish's cabinet?

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday (November 21, 2025) distributed portfolios among his 26 cabinet ministers. This is the first time in the history of the NDA in Bihar that the Home Department has gone to the BJP instead of Nitish Kumar. Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary has been given the reins of the Home Department. Looking at the entire Bihar cabinet, the BJP appears to be on the front foot.

This department is in the account of the BJP

• Samrat Choudhary – Home Department
• Vijay Sinha - Department of Land and Revenue, Department of Mines and Geology
• Mangal Pandey- Health Department, Law Department
• Dilip Jaiswal - Industries Department
• Nitin Naveen- Road Construction Department, Urban Development and Housing Department
• Ramkripal Yadav – Agriculture Department
• Sanjay Tiger - Labour Resources Department
• Arun Shankar Prasad - Tourism Department, Art, Culture and Youth Department
• Surendra Mehta - Animal and Fisheries Resources Department
• Narayan Prasad - Disaster Management Department
• Rama Nishad- Department of Backward Classes and Very Backward Classes Welfare
• Lakhendra Paswan – Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare Department
• Shreyasi Singh – Department of Information Technology (IT), Sports Department
• Pramod Chandravanshi - Cooperation Department, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department

JDU got these departments

• Vijendra Yadav – Finance and Energy Department
• Madan Sahni – Social Welfare Department
• Ashok Choudhary - Rural Works Department
• Lacey Singh – Fertiliser Consumer Division
• Shravan Kumar – Rural Development Department, Transport Department
• Vijay Choudhary – Water Resources, Building Construction Department
• Jama Khan- Minority Affairs Department
• Sunil Kumar – Education Department

Which department did the LJP (R) minister get?

• Sanjay Kumar - Sugarcane Industry Department
• Sanjay Kumar Singh – Public Health Engineering Department

ALSO

Santosh Manjhi - Minor Water Resources Department

RLM
Deepak Prakash- Panchayati Raj Department

The NDA government was sworn in for the eighth time in Bihar on Thursday (November 20, 2025). Fourteen ministers were appointed from the BJP, nine from the JDU, two from the LJP (R), and one each from the HAM and RLM.