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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expanded his cabinet with the inclusion of eight ministers on 2nd
June’19. The Bihar Legislative Assembly elections were last held in October -November, 2015 which
has seen the largest voter turnout since 2000. One might expect to get questions from this topic, es-
pecially in the Polity section and General Awareness across Central Government exams like SSC.
Knowing about the Cabinet ministers would also help the aspirants who are preparing for the Bihar
PSC and other competitive exams. The 2015 elections saw the Mahagatbandhan, which consisted of
the Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD), Janata Dal (United), and Indian National Congress (INC) securing a
total of 178 seats. While the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) secured a total of 58 seats.

Nitish Kumar resigned from his post of Chief Minister on 26th July 2017 over disagreements with the
alliance partner RJD. Hours later, after his resignation, Nitish Kumar decided to join the NDA alli-
ance and was born the BJP- JD (U) alliance. Ousting RJD from the Government BJP and Janta Dal
(United) took over power by securing the required majority.

Nitish Kumar has sworn in as the Chief Minister yet again in August 2017. This led to a major shuffle
in the Cabinet of Ministers of Bihar. The Sixth Cabinet of Nitish Kumar initially included nineteen
members which included the Chief Minister himself from the Janata Dal (U) and fourteen ministers
from the BJP. Cabinet Ministers of Bihar 2019-2020

In the Bihar Minister list comprises of -

 19 ministers from JD(U) including the CM

 14 ministers from BJP, with Sushil Kumar Modi as the Deputy Chief Minister from BJP.

The table below covers all the ministers of Bihar with their assigned departments.

Full list of Cabinet Ministers of Bihar

Ministers Departments

 General Administration
 Home
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar  Cabinet Secretariat
 Vigilance and Elections (Oher departments not allocated to a
Minister)

Deputy Chief Minis-  Finance

ter Sushil Kumar  Commercial Taxes

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Modi  Environment & Forest

 Information Technology

Bihar Cabinet Ministers List 2019

 Energy
Bijendra Prasad Y adav  Excise and Prohibition

 Backward and Extremely Backward Class Welfare

Brij Kishore Bind

 Minor Irrigation
Dinesh Chandra Y adav  Disaster Management

 Industries Dept.
Jai Kumar Singh  Science and Technology

 Panchayati Raj
Kapil Dev Kamat

 Minority Welfare
Khurshid alias Feroz Ahmad

 Tourism
Krishna Kumar Rishi

 Education
Krishannandan Prasad Verma

 Food and Consumer Protection

Madan Sahni

 Planning and Development

Maheshwar Hazari

 Health
Mangal Pandey

Smt. Kumari Manju Verma (Now Re-  Social Welfare

signed)
 Road Construction
Nand Kishore Y adav

 Information
Neeraj Kumar  Public Relations

 Art, Culture and Y outh Affairs

Pramod Kumar

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 Agriculture, Animal and Fish Resources

Prem Kumar

 Water Resources, Planning and Development

Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan Singh)

 Revenue and Land Reforms

Ram Narayan Mandal

 SC/ST Welfare
Ramesh Rishidev

 Co-operative
Rana Randhir

 Transport
Santosh Nirala

 Rural Works Department

Shailesh Kumar

 Rural Development
Shravan Kumar  Parliamentary Affairs

 Urban Development
Suresh Sharma  Housing Department

 Labour Resources
Vijay Kumar Sinha

 Public Health and Engineering

Vinod Narayan Jha

 Backward and Extremely Backward Class Welfare

Vinod Kumar Singh

 Social Welfare Department

Ramsevak Singh

 Sugarcane Department
Bima Bharati

BJP launched the election campaign for 2020 on 7th June’20, for Bihar in a virtual rally, which was
helmed by the Home Minister, Amit Shah in which he addressed the “ Bihar Jansamvad Rally”. Bihar
is scheduled to go to Assembly polls in October-November 2020.

We looked at the Cabinet Ministers of Bihar through the table above and also talked in brief about the
election results while looking at the course of events that followed. We also saw that the BJP has
launched its election campaign through virtual conferencing as Bihar elections are scheduled from
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October-November 2020. This information is particularly important for people preparing for com-
petitive exams which includes Polity across Central (SSC) and State Government (BCSC). Aspirants
can download the Testbook app for more updates and tips to prepare for their competitive exams