Patna: In a major shift in the balance of power, senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has been appointed as the new Home Minister of Bihar.

This is for the first time in the last two decades that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has given up the Home portfolio, a ministry he always kept with himself, which, in turn, helped him establish the rule of law in the State.

Samrat, who has been elected as the leader of the BJP Legislature Party (BJPLP) was Finance Minister in the previous regime, besides being the Deputy CM.

The other Deputy CM and senior BJP leader Vijay Sinha has been allotted the Revenue and Land Reforms Department, besides Mines and Geology, while the Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal will be the new Industry Ministry. In the previous government, Nitish M

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