Political observers attribute this reshuffle to the parliamentary election, which is less than a year away. However, some others feel that many district magistrates had to go as opposition legislators in the state assembly recently raised the issued of widespread corruption and bungling in the fund related to the MLA Local Area Development scheme.

Among the districts which would now have new district magistrates are Jamui, Aurangabad, Lakhisarai,
Sitamarhi, Kaimur, Khagaria, Sheohar, Araria, Darbhanga, West Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Kishanganj, Nawada, Saharsa, Banka, Arwal, Buxar, Katihar, Bhagalpur, Bhojpur, Madhubani, Gaya, East Champaran, Rohtas, Siwan, Nalanda, Munger and Samastipur.

The district Magistrate of Patna, Dr B Rajinder, was replaced with the Bhojpur DM Jitendra Kumar Sinha. Similarly, Bipin Kumar, district magistrate (Bhagalpur) was shifted to Muzaffarpur in the same
capacity.

Other new DMs included Rana Awadhesh Kumar (Jamui), Ramshobhit Paswan (Aurangabad), Pranmohan Thakur (Lakhisarai), Vijay Kumar (Sitamarhi), Baidyanath Prasad (Kaimur), U N Thakur (Khagaria), S P Singh (Sheohar), Indrasen Singh (Araria), Dilip Kumar Srivastava (West Champaran), Arun Prasad (Darbhanga), Firak Ahmed (Kishanganj), Yogendra Bhakta (Nawada), Garib Sahu (Saharsa), Ashish Kumar (Banka) and KK Sinha (Buxar).