Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday announced its Council of Ministers, who will be sworn in on Saturday morning. Against 17 vacancies in the Cabinet (besides Chief Minister), the party is inducting only ten ministers.
The announcement of the new cabinet ministers was ,made by the Punjab Cheif Minister Bhagwant Mann via twitter.Those who he has chosen to be in his team are Harpal Cheema (Dirba), Dr Baljit Kaur (Malout), Harbhajan Singh ETO (Jandiala) Dr Vijay Singla (Mansa), Lal Chand Kataruchak (Bhoa), Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer (Barnala), Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal (Ajnala), Laljit Singh Bhullar (Patti), Brahm Shankar (Hoshiarpur) and Harjot Singh Bains (Anandpur Sahib).
Among those chosen to be in the Cabinet, only two тАФ Cheema and Meet Hayer тАФ have been elected for the second term, while the remaining eight MLAs have been elected for the first time.
Five of the designate ministers are from Malwa, four from Majha and one from Doaba. Also, two of the designate ministers are doctors.
The portfolios to be given to the ministers have not yet been announced. Surprisingly, Sunam MLA Aman Arora, who had won with biggest margin in the election, has not been included in the first list of ministers.
Earlier, on March 17, Punjab’s newly-elected MLAs including Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann took oath as members of the Legislative Assembly.
Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has also decided to nominate Kultar Singh Sandhwan as Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha.
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