PATNA: Bihar’s first cabinet expansion under chief minister Samrat Choudhary took place on Thursday at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, with all ministers taking oath in a high-profile ceremony attended by top NDA leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh.Among the biggest highlights of the expansion was the induction of JD(U) leader Nishant Kumar, son of party patriarch Nitish Kumar, barely weeks after formally entering politics.Nishant Kumar, along with leaders from the BJP, JD(U), LJP(R), HAM(S) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha, was sworn in as minister as the NDA government carried out its first major cabinet reshuffle after sweeping the Bihar Assembly polls.Full list of ministers who took oathBJPRam Kripal YadavKedar GuptaNitish MishraMithlesh TiwariRama NishadVijay Kumar SinhaDilip JaiswalPramod ChandravanshiLakhvinder PaswanSanjay Singh TigerEngineer Kumar ShailendraNand Kishore RamRamchandra PrasadArun Shankar PrasadShreyasi SinghJD(U)Nishant KumarShravan KumarMadan SahniLesi SinghShweta GuptaBhagwan Singh KushwahaDamodar RawatBulo MandalSunil KumarSheila MandalRatnesh SadaJama KhanAshok ChoudharyLJP(R)Sanjay PaswanSanjay SinghHAM(S)Santosh SumanRashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM)Deepak PrakashSenior leaders including Ram Kripal Yadav, Nitish Mishra, Damodar Rawat, Sanjay Singh Tiger and Ashok Choudhary were among those who took oath as ministers in the Samrat Choudhary-led cabinet.The expansion came amid JD(U)’s push for stronger representation in the NDA government after the alliance’s emphatic victory in the Bihar Assembly elections.You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Patna | Silver Rate in Patna | Bank Holidays in Patna | Public Holidays in Patna | Patna AQI | Weather in Patna