Bihar Cupboard portfolios: Nitish Kumar helps to keep house, deputy Tarkishore Prasad will get finance
Up to date: November 17, 2020 5:04:35 pm
Nitish Kumar with deputy CMs Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi, after swearing-in, in Patna (PTI)
Leader Minister Nitish Kumar will stay the House division whilst his two deputies from the BJP — four-time Katihar MLA Tarkishore Prasad and four-time Bettiah MLA Renu Devi — were given the price of finance, city building and panchayati raj, backward forged upliftment and business portfolios respectively. But even so House, Kumar has additionally stored the overall management and vigilance portfolio.
Kumar, who took oath as Bihar Leader Minister for the 7th time, introduced the portfolios within the first Cupboard assembly on Tuesday, with BJP ministers getting plum posts. The BJP gained 74 of Bihar’s 243 seats, whilst Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) used to be limited to 43 seats, down from 71 in 2015. The Nitish Kumar-led NDA govt in Bihar has fourteen different ministers — seven from the BJP, 5 from the JD(U) and one each and every from the HAM and VIP.
Industrial taxes, surroundings and wooded area, knowledge generation, crisis control departments can be treated by way of Deputy Leader Minister Tarkishore Prasad, who belongs to the OBC.
Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan congratulates Nitish Kumar after taking oath because the Leader Minister of Bihar at Raj Bhawan in Patna (PTI)
Former meeting Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary of JD(U) has were given the portfolios of rural engineering, rural building, water assets, parliamentary affairs and knowledge and public family members. JD(U) chief Mewalal Choudhary would be the new training minister and Sheela Kumari the delivery minister. JD(U)’s Bijendra Yadav used to be allotted power, making plans and meals and client affairs portfolios.
BJP’s Mangal Pandey will go back as Well being minister and also will head the artwork and tradition division. Agriculture, cooperatives and sugar cane shall be treated by way of BJP’s Amrendra Pratap Singh whilst Scheduled Caste MLA from Rajnagar in Mithilanchal belt Rampreet Paswan would be the new public well being engineering minister.
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Representing the higher caste, BJP’s Jiwesh Kumar will deal with the tourism, mines and labour portfolios and OBC chief from Muzaffarpur Ram Surat Rai would be the new earnings and regulation minister.
VIP leader Mukesh Sahani, who misplaced by way of a slender margin from Simri Bakhtiyarpur, shall be accountable for animal husbandry and fishery division. As promised by way of the BJP previous, he’ll be despatched to the Higher Space within the state. Santosh Kumar Suman, son of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) leader Jitan Ram Manjhi, were given the minor irrigation and scheduled caste/scheduled tribe welfare portfolios.
In the meantime, in its first assembly, the brand new cupboard headed by way of Nitish Kumar gave its nod to a five-day consultation of the bicameral Bihar legislature from November 23 to November 27.
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