patna lalu prasadled rjds standing in bihar chief minister nitish kumars newly minted coalition was established on tuesday when the party got the lions share of the cabinet spoils17 out of 33 berthsin a replication of jd us arrangement with estranged ally bjp in the previous government deputy cm tejashwi prasad yadav was the only one who had been sworn in along with nitish last weekread alsorjd gets over 50 of berths in nitish kumars bihar cabinet cm keeps home health road urban devpt for tejashwibihars nitish kumar government was expanded on tuesday with the induction of 31 more ministers rjd will have the largest representation in the new cabinet with 16 ministers followed by 11 from kumars jdu two mlas from congress one from hindustani awam morcha and an independent were alsorjd gets lions share but jdu keeps plum portfolios 6 takeaways from bihar cabinet expansionnew delhi bihar chief minister nitish kumar expanded his new cabinet on tuesday by inducting 31 new ministers including a huge contingent of 16 from key ally rjd taking care to give due representation to all sections of society including minorities of the council of ministers 11 are from chiefyadavs muslims capture around 40 per cent berths in new cabinet in biharmaximum eight yadavas including lalus son and deputy cm tejashwi prasad yadav and his elder brother tej pratap have found place in the new cabinet followed by five members from the muslim community these two social groups are the main vote bank of lalu in bihar since early 1990snitish retained home general administration and cabinet secretariat portfolios while jdu got 11 of 31 cabinet slots in the ministry expansion maintaining status quo in representation as the party had 12 berths counting the cm in the last nda governmentcongress got two and one each went to hams and an independent legislator three berths were left vacant for potential defections from the opposition or to accommodate the left parties should they decide to join the government sources saidtejashwi got the health road construction rural works and urban development portfolios all of which hog a bulk of budgetary allocationstej pratap yadav the elder brother of tejashwi got the environment forest and climate change portfolio in the states cabinet expansion on tuesday tej pratap had handled the health portfolio during his curtailed ministerial stint in the first mahagathbandhan government in 2015 that berth was kept by tejashwi this time aroundin terms of caste and community arithmetic there are eight yadavs in the new cabinet and five muslims reviving lalu prasads triedandtested my equation the cabinet has three women six ministers each from the upper and scheduled castes and two each from the kurmi and kushwaha communitiessamir mahaseth is the only representative from the vaishya business community three sheela kumari anita devi and madan sahni hail from the extremely backward castes categoryafter tuesdays allocation of ministerial berths all eyes now would be on the speaker as the mahagathbandhan 20 government faces a floor test in the assembly