Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi took oath as the 8th Chief Minister of Delhi at the Raj Niwas. Along with Atishi, 5 cabinet ministers have also taken oath, out of which 4 were ministers in the previous Kejriwal government, while one new face has joined the cabinet.
The names of Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Imran Hussain, Mukesh Ahlawat are included in Atishi’s new council of ministers. Mukesh Ahlawat is the new face in this. Atishi, who studied from Oxford, had emerged as a big face of the party and the previous government at a time when Arvind Kejriwal was in Tihar jail in the liquor scam. Atishi, who became MLA from Kalkaji for the first time, has become the 17th woman to hold the post of Chief Minister in India and the third woman Chief Minister of Delhi. 43-year-old Atishi is also the youngest woman Chief Minister of Delhi.
Let us know which minister has got which department in the Atishi cabinet.
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– Atishi, Chief Minister
1. Public Works Department
2. electricity
3. Education
4. Higher Education
5. Training and Technical Education
6. Public Relations Department
7. Revenue
8. Finance
9. Planning
10. Services
11. Vigilance
12 water
13 Law, Justice and Legislative Affairs, all such departments which are not specifically allocated to any minister
-Saurabh Bhardwaj, Minister
1. Urban development
2. Irrigation and flood control
3. Health
4. Industry
5. Art, Culture and Language
6. Tourism
7. Social Welfare
8. Cooperative
– Gopal Rai, Minister
1. Development
2. General Administration Department
3. Environment, Forest and Wildlife
– Kailash Gehlot, Minister
1. Transportation
2. Administrative Reforms
3. Information and Technology
4. Home
5. Women and Child Development
– Imran Hussain, Minister
1. Food and Supplies
2. Election
– Mukesh Ahlawat, Minister
1. Gurudwara Election
2. SC and ST
3. Land and Building
4. Labor
5. Employment
Who held which department in the previous government?
In the previous government, Atishi held 13 departments including Finance, Revenue, PWD, Electricity and Education, while in the Kejriwal government, Gopal Rai held Environment, Development and General Administration departments. Whereas Saurabh Bhardwaj had health, tourism, urban development and other departments. Kailash Gehlot held the Transport, Home and Women and Child Development departments, while Imran Hussain held the Food and Supplies department.