Patna, Nov. 21 -- Apart from Nitish, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, 24 other ministers - eight from JD(U), 14 from the BJP, two from LJP-R and one each from HAM-S and RLM- took oath in batches of six. At least 10 of them are new faces to enter the House. Here is a list of the ministers who found berth in the cabinet. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, 68, has been a member of assembly since 1982 and won from Sarairanjan seat again in 2025. He was minister for water resources and parliamentary affairs in Bihar. He has previously held the posts of Speaker of Bihar Vidhan Sabha, Leader of JD(U) Legislature Party and minister for finance, commercial taxes, education, building construction, rural development, information & public relations, among others. Known for being an efficient administrator and a soft-spoken person with a clean image, he is close to Nitish Kumar. Bijendra Prasad Yadav, 79, has been an incumbent representative for Supaul since 1990. Currently, he is a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, as well as the state's Cabinet minister for energy, planning, and development. Yadav, a veteran socialist leader, broke away from the Janata Dal and returned to Nitish Kumar through JD(U). Yadav served as minister of state for energy in 1990 and minister of state for urban development in 1995 in Lalu government. Shrawan Kumar, 68, a seven time MLA from Nalanda, is considered one of the closest aides of Nitish. He was minister of rural development and Parliamentary affairs. His political career started from JP Movement and has been an MLA from Nalanda constituency since 1995. He is chief whip of JD(U) Bihar Vidhan Sabha. Leshi Singh 51, sixth time MLA from Damdaha is a senior member of Bihar Legislative Assembly and was a minister in Nitish cabinet. Previously, Leshi was chairman of Bihar State Women Commission. She has won in 2000, 2005 (Feb.), 2010, 2015, 2020 state elections. She is the wife of Butan Singh, former district chief of Samata Party and highly-dreaded ganglord. Jama Khan, 52, is a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Chainpur. He won on a BSP ticket by nearly 35,000 votes in 2020. He later switched to the JD(U) and became minister of minority affairs. He is the lone minority face of the present cabinet. He started his political career as a student leader in Varanasi in 1995. Madan Sahni, 54, a fourth time member of assembly, he represents Bahadurpur constituency. He has also represented Gaura Bauram constituency (2015-2020). He was elected to Zila Parishad and later won district board chairman election. Soon, due to his ground understanding of politics, he was given JD(U) symbol from Bahadurpur. He successfully contested. In the next election (2015), he was shifted to Gaura Bauram, which he won by a bigger margin, thus being inducted as Cabinet minister. In the 2020 election, he made a comeback to his home constituency of Bahadurpur and won. He was social welfare minister. Ashok Choudhary, 57, is a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council since 2014. Choudhary was a two-time MLA from Barbigha constituency. He served as Cabinet minister for building construction department in Nitish Kumar-led government. He was appointed working president of JD(U). His daughter Sambhavi Choudhary won the 2024 general elections from Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency on the ticket of LJP-R. Sunil Kumar, is a former IPS officer, who was last serving as Bihar's education minister. He represents Bhore constituency in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. In 2020, he retired as DG-cum-MD of Bihar Police Building Construction Corporation and soon after joined JD(U). Samrat Chaudhary, 56,belongs to the Koeri (Kushwaha) community and has long been seen as the BJP's CM face. Chaudhary entered politics in 1990, starting with the RJD. In 1999, he became agriculture minister in Rabri Devi government, but was removed in November 1999 after a controversy. His father Shakuni Chaudhary was a seven-time MLA from Tarapur since 1985. His mother, late Prabhabati Devi, was also a Samata Party MLA from 1998-2000. In 2017-2018, Samrat joined the BJP and rapidly rose through the ranks. He became both vice president and president of Bihar BJP. In 2020, he was elected to the Legislative Council. Vijay Kumar Sinha, 58, elected for the fourth time from Lakhisarai, has served as Speaker of assembly and held portfolios like road construction and agriculture in the previous NDA government. Sinha, hailing from the Bhumihar community, is known for his straight forward talks and has remained a vocal face of the party often launching scathing attacks against the opposition RJD and Congress. Holding a civil engineering diploma degree, Sinha is considered having clout in the BJP's organisational body in the state and has carved his image as a torch bearer of BJP's Hindutva agenda. Mangal Pandey, 53, served as health minister in outgoing cabinet. He also served as president of state BJP from 2013 to 2017. Pandey has been a member of Legislative Council since May 7, 2012. An ABVP member, he joined the BJP in 1989 as a primary member from Maharajgunj and was made member of working committee, Maharajgunj. In 2000 he was made state president of BJYM. Nitin Nabin 45, a youth face of the BJP elected from Bankipur assembly constituency in Patna, Nitin carries the legacy of his father late Navin Kishore Sinha, who worked to strengthen the BJP in 1980s and 1990s at the grassroots level . Nitin, who held the road construction department portfolio, urban development department after becoming minister for the first time in 2021 in NDA government, has positioned himself as an organisational man in the BJP by becoming election in-charge of Chattishgarh where the BJP formed government in 2023 by dislodging the Congress. Ram Kripal Yadav, 68, is a former union minister who started off in old Janata Dal parivar by contesting unsuccessfully from Patna West seat in 1990. Once considered close to Lalu Prasad, he shifted from RJD to BJP in 2014. He was elected for the first time from Danapur defeating Ritlal Yadav, who was sitting MLA from RJD. Yadav, who won the Patliputra Parliamentary seat in 2014, was appointed a Union minister of state in Modi government. In 2019, Yadav once again won from Patliputra seat but lost in 2024 polls to RJD's Misa Bharti. Shreyasi Singh, 34, is an Indian shooter who competes in the double trap event. She won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia - Women's double trap and a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She joined BJP in 2020 and was re-elected for second time from Jamui. Her father, late Digvijay Singh, was also former union minister. Sanjay Singh Tiger, 51, served as MLA representing Sandesh constituency from 2010 to 2015. Currently, he is state spokesperson of BJP's Bihar unit. Before 2010, he was a party worker when he was given ticket from Sandesh by the BJP. He became an MLA in 2010. Pramod Chandravanshi, a member of Bihar BJP EBC Cell, joined BJP two years back. Previously he was a member of EBC Commission, government of Bihar. Rama Nishad, a first time MLA from Aurai constituency and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, she is wife of former MP Ajay Nishad. Surendra Mehta was minister of sports in last cabinet. He is a second term member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Mehta first became an MLA in 2010. He lost in 2015 and won again in 2020. He was inducted into Nitish Kumar cabinet on March, 15, 2024 and was allotted the department of sports. Dilip Jaiswal, 61, is state president of BJP since 2024, Jaiswal is third time member of Bihar Legislative Council and also contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Kishanganj. He was minister of revenue and land reforms. He also worked as chairman Bihar State Warehousing Corporation from 2005 to 2008. He was also state treasurer for Bihar BJPfor over 20 years. Lakhendra Kumar Raushan, 40, is BJP Bihar state president Scheduled Caste Morcha. Raushan won the Patepur Assembly constituency on the BJP ticket in the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election and retained the seat once again. Pramod Kumar, 63, has served as minister of sugarcane andminister of law and has been a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly since 2005, representing Motihari seat. He started his political career as an ABVP member. Narayan Prasad Sah, 67, was tourism minister. He entered politics in 1985 and has served as bloc and district level functionary of BJP in West Champaran region. He represents his affiliation with the Teli (Sahu) caste of Bihar. Arun Shankar Prasad, 64, is a three term MLA, and holds a postgraduate degree. He was appointed whip of the ruling NDA in March 2025 during the previous Assembly. In Khajauli Assembly constituency 2025, he defeated RJD candidate Braj Kishor Yadav by 13,126 votes, securing 1,01,151 votes against Yadav's 88,025. In the 2020 Assembly polls as well, Arun Shankar Prasad had won by defeating then RJD MLA Sitaram Yadav by over 22,000 votes. He was first elected as MLA from Khajauli in 2010 on BJP ticket after defeating CPI's Amiruddin, but faced a setback in 2015 when he lost to RJD's Sitaram Yadav. Sanjay Kumar Singh, 45, a builder by profession, he became state spokesperson of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) in 2020 and rose to become the 'sangathan mantri' before becoming state vice president of the party. He contested from Mahua on LJP ticket in 2020 but lost. This was his second attempt at the assembly polls from the same constituency, when he emerged victorious, defeating his nearest rival Mukesh Kumar Raushan of the RJD. Sanjay Kumar, 52, known as a grassroots worker, associated with LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan for last 30 years, Kumar won from Begusarai's Bakhri constituency on his electoral debut defeating Suryakant Paswan of the CPI by 17.318 votes. Santosh Kumar Suman, 50, is a member of the Bihar Legislative Council representing the Hindustani Awam Morcha-S. Son of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, Suman served as minister of information technology, disaster management, and minor water resources from January 2024 to November 2025, minister of SC/ST welfare in the eighth Nitish ministry from August 2022 to June 2023, and minister of minor irrigation and SC/ST welfare in the seventh Nitish Kumar ministry from November 2020 to August 2022 Deepak Prakash, is son of RLM leader Upendra Kushwaha. He is not member of any house....