Giriraj Singh, elected from Begusarai in Bihar, was made Union Minister of Textiles — option 1.

The context. The 18th Lok Sabha was elected in the general election held between April and June 2024, and the Council of Ministers took office on 9 June 2024. Giriraj Singh, who had held Rural Development and earlier Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, moved to the Ministry of Textiles.

Why the Textiles portfolio matters. Textiles is among India’s largest employers after agriculture, supporting tens of millions of workers directly and indirectly, and it is a major foreign-exchange earner. The ministry runs the schemes that shape the sector — the Production Linked Incentive scheme for man-made fibre and technical textiles, the PM MITRA mega textile parks, the Samarth skilling programme, and the handloom and handicraft boards that support traditional weavers.

A note on the other names. All four are senior figures, and two of them — Giriraj Singh and Lalan Singh — represent Bihar constituencies, which is why they are paired here as distractors in a Bihar Public Service Commission paper. Reading the constituency given in brackets is often enough to separate them.

Hence, the answer is Giriraj Singh (Begusarai).