Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday administered the oath of office and secrecy to senior most MlA Mansa Ram as Chief Parliamentary Secretary at ceremony held at HP Secretariat.
Officiating Chief Secretary Partho Mitra conducted the proceedings. Ram has been four times Minister in different Government of the State. He is one of the senior most MlA who has been minister in the Cabinet of first Chief Minister YS Parmar of the State.
Ram was first elected to the Himachal Pradesh Assembly in 1967 and had remained Cabinet Ministers in the Government of YS Parmar, Thakur Ram lal, Virbhadra Singh and Prem Kumar Dhumal. Being unhappy for sometime for being neglected in the current Government, Mansa Ram’s name was cleared by central leadership for Chief Parliamentary Secretary. With Ram’s inclusion into the Cabinet, the total number of CPS in the current Government is now nine.