Portfolios were allocated among members of the Nitish Kumar cabinet with the chief minister retaining key departments like home which he had held in the previous government. Other portfolios remaining with the chief minister are general administration, cabinet secretariat and election so far .
Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav was given Health, Road construction, Urban Development and Rural works.
Finance portfolio was given to Vijay Kumar Chaudhary of JD( U).
A 31-member council of ministers was sworn by Governor Phagu Chauhan and the RJD bagged 16 berths. 11 ministers are from the JD(U). Congress, which is part of the Grand alliance, got two Cabinet berths including Afaque Alam and Murari Gautam. Santosh Kumar Suman of Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and one independent MLA Sumit Kumar Singh also got ministerial berth in the Grand Alliance Government.
Left parties having 16 MLAs have decided not be a part of the government. Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Bihar and Tejaswi Prasad as Deputy Chief Minister on August 10.
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