Patna: BJP MP Raj Bhushan Choudhary, elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, was inducted as minister of state in the third Narendra Modi government.

By profession, Dr Chaudhary belongs to the extremely backward Nishad community.

Before the Lok Sabha elections, he left Vikassheel Insaan Party and joined BJP.

Choudhary getting the ministerial post holds significance in Bihar because Vikassheel Insaan Party chief Mukesh Sahni has been the face of the Nishad community.

Political analysts said Chaudhary's induction as a minister in the central government will help the saffron party garner more votes from the Nishad community in the 2025 assembly elections.

Satish Chandra Dubey, considered a prominent Brahmin leader of BJP in Bihar, was also included as Minister of State in the Central Government.

Dubey, currently a Rajya Sabha MP, who rose to prominence as an agricultural activist fighting for the welfare of sugarcane farmers in the Champaran region, helped the NDA garner votes from the upper caste community in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

He represented the Valimiki Nagar seat between 2014 and 2019.