NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has allocated portfolios to his expanded coalition cabinet, a day after being sworn in for a record tenth term. The BJP, now the single largest party with 89 seats, secured the largest share of ministries in the new Bihar cabinet. Samrat Chaudhary has taken charge of the home department, a portfolio Chief Minister Nitish Kumar himself had held for many years. Vijay Kumar Sinha will oversee land and revenue as well as mines and geology. Mangal Pandey has been assigned health and law, while Dilip Jaiswal returns to head the industries department. Nitin Naveen will handle road construction along with urban development and housing. Other major portfolios with the BJP include: Health and law — Mangal Pandey Road construction; urban d

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