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Shandil was the social justice and empowerment minister of the hill state from 2012 to 2017 as effectively. (Photograph by @INCHimachal)
Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar distributed the portfolios on the recommendation of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.
The newly-inducted ministers of the Himachal Pradesh cupboard had been allotted portfolios on Wednesday and the youngest of them, former chief minister Virbhadra Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh, was given the cost of the general public works, youth and sports activities departments.
Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar distributed the portfolios on the recommendation of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu. The eldest member of the cupboard, Dhani Ram Shandil from Solan, was given the cost of the well being and household welfare, social justice and empowerment and labour and employment departments.
Shandil was the social justice and empowerment minister of the hill state from 2012 to 2017 as effectively.
Chander Kumar, the one minister from Kangra district, has acquired the agriculture and animal husbandry departments, whereas Harshwardhan Chauhan from Sirmaur has been given the industries, parliamentary affairs and ayush portfolios. Each Kumar and Chauhan are six-time MLAs.
Jagat Singh Negi from the tribal Kinnaur district has been given the departments of income, horticulture and tribal growth, whereas former chief minister Thakur Ram Lal’s grandson Rohit Thakur from Shimla district has acquired the upper, elementary, technical schooling and vocational and industrial coaching portfolios.
The “rana” of the erstwhile Koti state, Anirudh Singh from Shimla district, would be the rural growth and panchayati raj minister.
The oath-taking ceremony of the newly-inducted ministers (three from Shimla and one every from Solan, Kangra, Sirmaur and Kinnaur districts) was held on January 8.
Sukhu has retained the finance, normal administration, house, planning, personnel portfolios and all different departments not allotted to any minister, whereas there isn’t any change within the departments of Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri, who was allotted the jal shakti, transport and language and humanities and tradition departments.
Shimla district, with seven MLAs, has been given a lion’s share within the cupboard with three ministers, whereas Bilaspur, Mandi, Kullu and Lahaul and Spiti districts are unrepresented. With 10 MLAs, Kangra has acquired just one cupboard berth. Meeting Speaker Kuldeep Pathania is from Bhatiyyat in Chamba district.
In addition to the deputy speaker’s submit, three berths are nonetheless vacant as the utmost variety of ministers, together with the chief minister, can not exceed 12.
The Congress received 40 of the 68 Meeting seats within the polls held in November — 10 from Kangra, seven from Shimla, 4 every from Una, Solan and Hamirpur, three from Sirmaur, two every from Chamba and Kullu, and one every from Mandi, Bilaspur, Kinnaur and Lahaul and Spiti districts — and all of the areas need to be represented within the cupboard.
Of the 9 ministers, 5 are from the Shimla parliamentary constituency, two from the Hamirpur Lok Sabha phase and one every from the Kangra and Mandi parliamentary constituencies.
Forward of the cupboard enlargement, the chief minister had additionally appointed six chief parliamentary secretaries.
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