The newly-inducted Ministers and Chief Parliamentary Secretaries in the Manohar lal Khattar Government in Haryana were on Friday allotted official rooms in the State Secretariat but none of them were allotted portfolios till late evening.
Undertaking its first Cabinet expansion, BJP led Haryana Government had on Thursday inducted three new Ministers and four Chief Parliamentary Secretaries.
The three Ministers, including one cabinet minister, one minister of state with independent charge, one minister of state and four CPS continued to be without departments (till 8.45 pm on Friday). The legislators were allotted official rooms on sixth, eighth and ninth floor in state secretariat in Sector 1 here.
Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki had administered the oath of affirmation and secrecy to three legislators at a ceremony held at Haryana Raj Bhawan here. The three newly inducted Ministers are- Krishan lal Panwar (Cabinet rank), Ghanshyam Saraf (Minister of state with Independent charge) and Nayab Singh Saini (Minister of state).
later, at a separate venue, the Chief Minister had administered the oath to four party legislators as CPS. They are Shyam Singh Rana, Bakhshish Singh Virk, Seema Trikha and Dr Kamal Gupta.
After Thursday’s expansion of the Cabinet, apart from Chief Minister, there are now seven Cabinet Ministers, two Ministers of State with Independent charge and three Ministers of State.
The BJP came to power in Haryana for the first time after winning 47 seats in the 90-member assembly in the polls held in October last year.
1-year-old Manohar lal Khattar, a first-time MlA from Karnal and a non-Jat leader known to be close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was administered the oath along with nine ministers by Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki last year.
The other six cabinet ministers were Kavita Jain, Ram Bilas Sharma, Abhimanyu, Om Parkash Dhankar, Anil Vij and Narbir Singh. Three others -- Vikram Singh Thekedar, Krishan Kumar Bedi and Karan Dev Kamboj-- are ministers of state (independent charge).
Kavita Jain is the lone woman minister in the 13-member Ministry now.