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Samrat Choudhary becomes Bihar’s first BJP CM, keeps 29 key departments including Home and Health, deputies Vijay Sinha and Bijendra Yadav get major portfolios.
Newly-appointed Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary, centre, being garlanded by state BJP President Sanjay Saraogi, right, and others during a ceremony. (PTI photo)
Shortly after BJP leader Samrat Choudhary was sworn in as the 24th Chief Minister of Bihar, the state government on Wednesday announced a detailed allocation of portfolios, with the new chief minister retaining control over a wide range of key departments.
Choudhary, marking the first instance of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader occupying the top post in the state, has kept 29 departments under his charge.
Samrat Choudhary keeps 29 departments
These include General Administration, Home, Cabinet Secretariat, Vigilance, Election, Revenue and Land Reforms, Mines and Geology, Urban Development and Housing, Health, Law, Industry, Road Construction, Agriculture, Minor Water Resources, Labour Resources and Migrant Workers Welfare, Youth Employment and Skill Development, Tourism, Art and Culture, Dairy, Fisheries and Animal Resources, Disaster Management, Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes Welfare, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare, Information Technology, Sports, Cooperation, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Sugar Industry, Public Health Engineering, and Panchayati Raj.
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The announcement comes after Choudhary’s swearing-in by Governor Syed Ata Hasnain at Lok Bhawan in Patna. The ceremony was attended by senior political leaders, including JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, who stepped down from the chief ministerial post a day earlier, Union Minister and former BJP president JP Nadda, and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan.
Deputy CMs Get 10 and 8 Departments respectively
As part of the cabinet distribution, Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha has been assigned 10 departments. His portfolio includes Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs, Information and Public Relations, Building Construction, Minority Welfare, Education, Science, Technology and Technical Education, Rural Development, Transport, and Higher Education, giving him charge of key infrastructure, governance, and social sectors.
Another Deputy Chief Minister, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, has been allotted eight departments, including Energy, Planning and Development, Prohibition, Excise and Registration, Finance, Commercial Taxes, Social Welfare, Food and Consumer Protection, and Rural Works, placing him in control of the state’s fiscal management, welfare delivery, and energy sector.
Both Deputy Chief Ministers, along with Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, also from the JD(U), took oath alongside Choudhary and are expected to play significant roles in the new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Bihar.
Choudhary, who has been active in politics for nearly three decades and joined the BJP nine years ago, said he would begin work immediately.
“I will get down to work from today itself. Rest assured that the model of governance developed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ex-CM Nitish Kumar will be followed in Bihar,” he said after the swearing-in ceremony.
(With inputs from agencies)
Bihar, India, India
April 15, 2026, 18:10 IST
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