Madhya Pradesh ministers get portfolios, Bala Bachchan gets home, Bhanot finance
The portfolios were announced more than 72 hours after the ministers were sworn in, indicating intense lobbying among various factions of the state Congress unit.
In Short
- PC Sharma & Bala Bachchan have also been assigned departments retained by the CM
- The portfolios were announced more than 72 hours after the ministers were sworn in
- The Congress returned to power in the state after a hiatus of 15 years
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Friday allocated portfolios to the 28 cabinet ministers who were sworn in on December 25.
Tribal MLA Bala Bachchan, who was a minister in the previous Digvijay Singh-led Congress government, was given home and jail, while another senior MLA, Tulsi Silawat, got health, the public relations department official said.
Kamal Nath has kept the following departments -- industrial policy and investment promotion, public relations, science and technology, aviation, public service management, non-resident Indian department, technical education, skill development and employment department, while the other departments that have not been allocated yet.
Two cabinet ministers, PC Sharma and Bala Bachchan, besides being given the responsibility of individual departments have also been assigned departments retained by the CM.
Here's the full list:
1. Vijay Laxmi Sadho: Culture, Medical Education, Ayush
2. Sajjan Singh Verma: PWD, Environment
3. Hukum Singh Karada: Water Resources Department
4. Govind Singh: Cooperation, Parliamentary Affairs
5. Bala Bachchan: Home, Jails, Departments Assigned to CM
6. Arif Aqueel: Bhopal Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Department, Backward Classes and Minority Welfare, Small, Micro and Medium Industries Department
7. Brajendra Singh Rathore: Commercial Taxes
8. Pradip Jaiswal: Mining
9. Lakhan Singh Yadav: Animal Husbandry, Fisheries
10. Tulsi Silawat: Health
11. Govind Singh Rajput: Revenue, Transport
12. Imarti Devi: Woman and Child Development
13. Omkar Singh Markam: Tribal Welfare, Nomadic Tribes Welfare
14. Prabhuram Chaudhry: School Education
15. Priyavrat Singh: Energy
16. Sukhdeo Panse: PHE
17. Umang Singhar: Forests
18. Harsh Yadav: Rural Industries, New and Renewable Energy
19.Jaivardhan Singh: Urban Administration and Housing
20. Jitu Patwari: Sports and Youth Welfare, Higher Education
21. Kamleshwar Patel: Rural Development
22. Lakhan Ghanghoriya: Social Justice and Physically Challenged Welfare, Scheduled Caste Welfare
23. Mahendra Singh Sisodia: Labour
24. PC Sharma: Law and Legislate Affairs, departments Assigned to CM
25. Pradyuman Singh Tomar: Food and Civil Supplies
26. Sachin Yadav: Agriculture and Horticulture, Food Processing
27. Tarun Bhanot: Finance, Planning and Statistics
Portfolios allocated to ministers in Madhya Pradesh pic.twitter.com/jTWU85fXVd ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2018
The portfolios were announced more than 72 hours after the ministers were sworn in, indicating intense lobbying among various factions of the state Congress unit.
The Congress returned to power in the state after a hiatus of 15 years by ousting the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Though the Congress, with 114 seats, depends on the support of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party, which have won two seats and one, respectively, no MLA from these two smaller parties has got a berth in the cabinet.
A five-day session of the newly-elected Assembly is slated to begin from January 7.