Choudhary took oath on April 15, the first-ever BJP leader to lead the state. Janata Dal United leaders Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Vijay Kumar Chaudhary took oath as his deputies.
The other departments that remain with the CM include Agriculture, Labour Resources and Migrant Workers Welfare, Disaster Management, Panchayati Raj, and Industries.
The notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat Department said Samrat Choudhary holds altogether 29 portfolios, besides “all other such departments which have not been allocated to anybody else”.
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary has been allocated 10 departments, including Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs and Information and Public Relations, portfolios that he held in the previous Nitish Kumar government.
Yadav will hold eight departments, including Energy, Finance and Planning and Development, which he had been entrusted with in the previous government. He has also been allocated the Prohibition, Excise and Registration Department.
Nitish Kumar, who heads the JD(U), had maintained a firm hold on the home department for most part of his 20-years-long tenure, but agreed to part with it after returning to power for the fifth consecutive term in November last year.
