After the formation of the new government in Bihar, 26 ministers have taken oath. Now departments have to be divided among ministers. Meanwhile, on Friday (November 21, 2025), a list has come out in which the names of the BJP ministers who took oath and their departments are written. The surprising thing is that Home Department is written in front of Samrat Chaudhary.

Actually the Home Department has been with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. If this list is proved correct and it is approved, then it will be the first time that Nitish Kumar will not have this department. Because this department is such that Nitish Kumar never wants to leave it.

Bihar BJP congratulated ministers

A list has been shared from the X handle of Bihar BJP. In this, the names of 14 ministers and the name of the department are written in front of them. He has been congratulated. The post reads, “Hearty congratulations and best wishes to all the newly appointed honorable ministers of Bihar for being allotted departments! All the honorable ministers who have taken charge with the resolve of public service will give a new direction to good governance and stability under the leadership of respected Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji and popular Chief Minister Shri Nitish Kumar ji.”

Hearty congratulations and best wishes to all the newly appointed honorable ministers of Bihar on being allotted departments!

All the honorable ministers who took charge with the resolve of public service, respected Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Yes and popular Chief Minister Shri @NitishKumar Good governance and stability under the leadership of… pic.twitter.com/R1dG0mDgEB

— BJP Bihar (@BJP4Bihar) November 21, 2025

What did BJP and JDU say about the list?

Regarding this list, BJP’s state media in-charge Danish Iqbal said that it is correct. Not fake. He clearly said that the Home Department is going to Samrat Chaudhary. On the other hand, JDU MLC and spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said that we are not convinced about what is going on right now. There is no authentic letter, so we can’t do anything on it.”

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This time in Bihar Assembly elections, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) contested on 6 seats and registered a resounding victory on 5 seats. Despite this, none of the winning MLAs of the party got a place in the new cabinet of Nitish Kumar. Still, party chief Jitan Ram Manjhi seems happy and the reason for this is his son Santosh Suman becoming a minister once again.

5 HAM MLAs win, but no one gets ministerial post
The 5 seats won by Hindustani Awam Morcha in this election include-

• Deepa Manjhi from Imamganj (daughter-in-law of Jitan Ram Manjhi)
• Lalan Ram from Kutumba, who defeated Congress President Rajesh Ram
• Barachatti to Jyoti Devi (Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Samdhan)
• Romit Kumar from Atri
• Prafulla Kumar Manjhi from Sikandra

None of these five have been given ministerial post in the Nitish government. This is being considered a big sign in political circles, but no voice of displeasure was raised in the Manjhi group.

Santosh Suman became minister for the third time
Even though the winning MLAs did not get a place in the new government of Nitish Kumar, Jitan Ram Manjhi’s son Santosh Kumar Suman has once again been made a minister. This will be his third term. Suman is the national president of HAM and also a member of Bihar Legislative Council.

Why is Santosh Suman important?
Santosh Suman is considered a leader who is educated and does politics with planning. He has done MA in Political Science from Delhi University. He has passed UGC-NET. He has done PhD from Magadh University. Before coming into politics, he was a lecturer and social worker. While being a minister, he did many works in the Scheduled Caste and Tribe Welfare Department. By resigning from the Nitish cabinet in 2023, he also gave a strong political message on the issue of independent identity of the party.

HAM’s small performance, but big political role
Although, HAM’s performance in the 2025 Bihar elections was not very good, but this party emerged as very important in the political equations. Manjhi’s role in coalition politics has continuously increased and Santosh Suman becoming a minister is the biggest proof of this.

With the formation of the new government in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has prepared a team of 26 ministers. Jama Khan’s name is included as the only Muslim minister in this cabinet, who will hold the ministerial post from Janata Dal United (JDU) quota. Jama Khan is not only considered close to Nitish Kumar, but his political journey has also been full of ups and downs and interesting turns.

Jama Khan, MLA from Chainpur in Kaimur district, has been the Minority Welfare Minister and may get the same important responsibility in the new government. Born in a Muslim family in Naughara village of Kaimur district of Bihar, Jama Khan’s education was also related to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. He studied till 12th class from Varanasi.

An interesting thing is that he himself said that his ancestors were Hindu Rajputs, who later converted to Islam. Even today, strong family ties remain between his relatives, both Hindu and Muslim.

Many parties, many elections…but won in 2020

Jama Khan’s political journey is full of struggles. In 2005, he contested elections from Chainpur for the first time from BSP but lost. In 2010, he contested elections from Congress, but lost again. In 2015, he again contested from BSP and lost by about 600 votes. Contested elections from BSP in 2020 and won a big victory by about 25 thousand votes.

This victory of 2020 was big, because he defeated the BJP candidate Brij Kishore Bind, who had been consistently strong on this seat. After this victory, he became the only MLA of BSP in Bihar Assembly.

Left BSP and went straight to Nitish Kumar’s cabinet.

After winning in 2020, Jama Khan suddenly took a big decision in January 2021. He left BSP and joined JDU. As soon as he joined JDU, Nitish Kumar expressed confidence in him and made him the Minority Welfare Minister.

Jama Khan openly supported JDU’s stand on many sensitive issues like Waqf Amendment Bill and praised the leadership style of Nitish Kumar. Due to this, the discussion about their closeness increased further.

New cabinet, new responsibility

The new government includes Samrat Chaudhary, Vijay Kumar Sinha, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Shravan Kumar, Mangal Pandey, Dr. Dilip Jaiswal, Ashok Chaudhary, Lacey Singh, Madan Sahni, Nitin Naveen, Ramkripal Yadav, Santosh Kumar Suman, Sunil Kumar, Mohd. Jama Khan, Sanjay Singh Tiger, Arun Shankar Prasad, Surendra Mehta, Narayan Prasad, Rama Nishad, Lakhendra Kumar Roshan, Shreyasi Singh, Dr. Pramod Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Deepak Prakash have taken oath as ministers.

After the massive victory of NDA in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, the process of formation of the new government has started. Today (Monday) Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will hold a cabinet meeting and dissolve the cabinet and submit his resignation to the Governor. After this the claim to form the government will also be staked. Meanwhile, the discussion about how many ministers will be from which party has also started in full swing.

19 MLAs won from Chirag’s party

This time more new faces can be seen in Nitish’s cabinet. Because two new parties, Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Upendra Kushwaha’s party Rashtriya Lok Morcha have also won the MLA elections. In such a situation, discussions have started that three ministers of LJP Ram Vilas can join the Nitish cabinet. The question is, whose name can be in the race? 19 MLAs from Chirag’s party have won.

Raju Tiwari’s name is on the top in the list

According to the information received from a senior leader of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), three out of 19 MLAs can become ministers. The first name in this is Raju Tiwari. Raju Tiwari is the state president of the party. This time he has won from Govindganj assembly seat. The second name is of Sanjay Paswan who is the Principal General Secretary of the party. Won the election from Bakhri assembly seat. The third name is that of Sanjay Singh who won from Mahua Assembly.

Formula of one minister on six MLAs

A formula of one minister for six MLAs is being formed in Nitish cabinet. Accordingly, the quota of three ministers is being fixed in the account of LJP Ram Vilas. There is a quota of 36 ministers including the Chief Minister in Bihar government. Earlier, BJP had more ministers in Nitish cabinet, but this time Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas is in the government with good numbers.

However, there is no information yet about how many ministers from which party will take oath in the swearing-in ceremony. There is discussion that in the swearing in ceremony, someone from LJP Ram Vilas can also be sworn in as a minister. On the other hand, two Deputy CMs can be made from BJP.

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Nitish kumar cabinet ageda: A meeting of the Council of Ministers was held today (Tuesday) under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar regarding the development plans of Bihar. A total of 27 agendas have been approved in this cabinet meeting. A total of 27370 posts have been created. On the other hand, the salary of the Minister of State and the Deputy Minister and the whip of the whip has been amended. The increase of up to 15000 has been increased. Earlier there was 50,000 salary which has now been increased to 65,000.

Regional allowance has increased from 55,000 to 70,000 and daily allowance from 3000 to 3500. The Minister of State has increased from 24,000 to 29,500 and the guest allowance of the Deputy Minister has increased from 23,500 to 29,000. Estimates travel allowance for government duty has increased from Rs 15 per kilometer to 25 per kilometer.

More than 20 thousand posts in health department

The creation of new posts in many departments in the cabinet has been allowed. In the new posts, 20 thousand 16 posts are from the Health Department alone. There will now be three directors in the health department of Bihar. His name will be the Directorate of Public Health, Directorate of Medical Education and Health Services Directorate. The cabinet has got approval about this.

Apart from this, a total of 3306 posts of Assistant Urdu translator have been approved in all types of office for the post of Urdu translator. However, 1653 posts have also been abolished among the collectorate and subdivision office and the post for Urdu translator for the Office of the Zonal Office.

At the same time, a total of 29 posts have been received by the General Administration Department for a total of 29 posts for data entry operator and 6 posts for office attendant i.e. peon. 2590 posts have been approved for clerk in the Agriculture Department.

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