Bihar Cabinet Expanded with 32 New Ministers

Patna. The council of ministers in Bihar has been expanded. Thirty-two ministers took oath in a swearing-in ceremony held at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on Thursday. Former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar was also among them.

Thirty-two new ministers have been appointed 22 days after Samrat Chaudhary became Chief Minister. This includes 15 from BJP, 13 from JDU, two from LJP (R), and one each from HAM and RLM.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President Nitin Naveen, and former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were present at the swearing-in ceremony.

From BJP, Ramkripal Yadav, Kedar Gupta, Nitish Mishra, Mithilesh Tiwari, Rama Nishad, Vijay Kumar Sinha, Dilip Jaiswal, Pramod Chandravanshi, Lakhendra Paswan, Sanjay Tiger, Engineer Kumar Shailendra, Nand Kishore Ram, Ramchandra Prasad, Arun Shankarprasad, and Shrey Singh have become ministers.

From JDU, Nishant Kumar, Shravan Kumar, Ashok Chaudhary, Leshi Singh, Madan Sahni, Sunil Kumar, Jama Khan, Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, Shila Mandal, Damodar Raut, Bulo Mandal, Ratnesh Sada, and Shweta Gupta took oath.

Sanjay पासवान and Sanjay Singh became ministers from LJP, while Santosh Manjhi from Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Deepak Prakash from Rashtriya Lok Morcha became ministers.