India, Nov. 21 -- The new cabinet of ministers in Bihar has been officially unveiled as chief minister Nitish Kumar allocated the departments to the NDA leaders on Friday. Among the notable names and the allocation of portfolios was deputy chief minister and BJP leader Samrat Choudhary, who will be leading the home affairs department.

On Thursday, Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the chief minister of Bihar for a record tenth time at a grand ceremony in Patna's historic Gandhi Maidan. After Kumar, his two deputies, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, both from the BJP, took their oaths.

Twenty-four other ministers took the oath in groups of six. They included eight from the Janata Dal (United), 14 from the BJP, two from the Lok Janshakt...