Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Saturday inducted three Ministers into his Cabinet taking the total strength of the Cabinet to 12.
The three Ministers inducted on Saturday included MlA from Tuting-Yingkiong constituency, Alo libang, MlA from Nyapin constituency Bamang Felix and Mahesh Chai, who represents the Tezu constituency in the Arunachal Pradesh legislative Assembly.
Arunachal Pradesh Governor, V Shanmuganathan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Ministers in a function organised at Darbar Hall located inside the Raj Bhawan in Itanagar.
“There was space for three Ministers in the Cabinet after the recent dropping of some Ministers. Today we have inducted three new Ministers for the sake of better administration,” said Chief Minister Pema Khandu after the oath taking ceremony of the new Ministers.
Worth mentioning that the function of induction of the three new Ministers on Saturday was also participated by Union Minister for Road, Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of State (Home) Kiren Rijiju, besides, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, his Cabinet colleagues, Speaker of State legislative Assembly TN Thongdok, MlAs and other senior bureaucrats of the State.
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu led Government in the hill State became a BJP Government on December 31 last year after the Chief Minister and 33 of the total 43 Peoples Party of Arunachal (PPA) Government merged with the BJP.With the merger, the BJP Government has the strength of 45 BJP legislators in the House of 60.
“We appreciate the Chief Minister for inducting three new ministers in the Cabinet. I hope the move will help the Government run the Government in a better and transparent manner,” said Arunachal BJP President Tapir Gao.
It may be mentioned here that the Chief Minister had last week dropped three Ministers from his cabinet including Takam Pario, Tanga Byaling and Rajesh Tacho for their involvement in a rebellion the Government.