In Nitish Kumar’s 10th cabinet, the veteran CM hands over the Bihar Home Ministry to BJP’s Samrat Choudhary, signaling alliance power shift and potential succession planning, while retaining key governance roles.
The 74-year-old veteran politician retained his position as Chief Minister but ceded the Home Department to his deputy from the BJP, signaling a shift in the alliance dynamics. Vijay Sinha, the other BJP Deputy Chief Minister, has been assigned the Revenue and Mines portfolios. Other key ministries allotted to BJP leaders include Agriculture (Ram Kripal Yadav), Backward Classes Welfare (Rama Nishad), Disaster Management (Narayan Prasad), Industries (Dilip Jaiswal), Labour (Sanjay Singh Tiger), Health and Law (Mangal Pandey), Road and Housing (Nitin Nabin), SC & ST Welfare (Lakhendra Raushan), Tourism (Arun Shankar Prasad), IT and Sports (Shreyasi Singh), Fisheries and Animal Resources (Surendra Mehata), and Environment and Climate Change (Pramod Kumar).
The JDU retained important departments including Social Welfare (Madan Sahni), Rural Works (Ashok Choudhary), Food and Consumer Protection (Leshi Singh), Rural Development and Transport (Shrawon Kumar), Water Resources (VK Choudhary), Energy (Vijendra Yadav), and Education (Sunil Kumar). Smaller alliance partners received portfolios like Sugarcane Industry and Public Health Engineering (Lok Janshakti Party), Minor Water Resources (Hindustan Awam Morcha), and Panchayati Raj (Rashtriya Lok Manch).
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Significance of Relinquishing the Home Ministry
Nitish Kumar’s decision to hand over the Home Ministry after nearly two decades marks a strategic shift. Analysts suggest it reflects the BJP’s growing influence within the alliance and may indicate a form of succession planning for Bihar’s political future, with 57-year-old Samrat Choudhary potentially being groomed as a future Chief Ministerial candidate.
Ceding the Home Department allows Kumar to focus on broader governance issues rather than law-and-order management, especially given the persistent reference to the state’s “jungle raj” narrative. It also underscores the JDU-BJP alliance’s continued collaboration while recognizing BJP’s dominant role, as evidenced by the allocation of 14 ministerial positions to BJP compared to nine for the JDU in the tenth Nitish Kumar cabinet.
Nitish Kumar 10.0
Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Bihar’s Chief Minister for a record-extending tenth term on Thursday. The new cabinet reflects both continuity and change, balancing governance priorities with political strategy, and signaling the start of a potential post-Nitish era in Bihar politics.
This realignment highlights the evolving nature of the JDU-BJP alliance and sets the stage for future political developments in India’s third-largest state.
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