As Kailash Gahlot joins BJP, AAP brings in ‘Jat face’ Raghuvinder Shokeen to replace him as minister

Sources successful the BJP said Gahlot has been promised a summons from Najafgarh constituency for the upcoming polls. In the AAP Cabinet, Gahlot had held portfolios including transport, home, administrative reforms, IT, and women and kid development. Several important projects were besides nether his charge, including the electrification of autobus depots, induction of electrical buses, and 1 of AAP’s canvass promises – Mahila Samman Rashi schemes nether which erstwhile main curate Arvind Kejriwal announced an honorarium of Rs 1,000 per period to each women aged 18 to 60.

It is not wide what portfolios volition beryllium fixed to Shokeen but enactment insiders said helium is apt to get complaint of the departments held by Gahlot and could beryllium entrusted with the execution of the Mahila Samman Rashi strategy earlier the Assembly polls.

According to sources, Raghuvinder Shokeen is simply a two-time MLA from Nangloi Jat constituency who joined the AAP successful 2015. Before that, helium was with the BJP and had served arsenic a councillor with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), some arsenic a BJP subordinate and arsenic an Independent. AAP leaders said helium has been with the enactment since the time of its inception and has been moving with elder leaders. A civilian technologist by assemblage and an educationist, Shokeen runs respective superior schools successful villages and respective different places successful Delhi.

A elder AAP person said, “Shokeen is simply a Jat look and his beingness volition power voters surviving successful the agrarian parts of the metropolis and pull them towards the AAP. Jat ballot percent is lone 4-5 per cent successful Delhi but his representation volition assistance garner much votes and helium has a larger beingness among people.  Rural parts of Delhi besides person a increasing colonisation of labourers from occidental UP and Bihar who person settled successful unauthorised colonies. So, having him arsenic a curate volition person a large interaction up of the polls.” The person added that Shokeen is often seen having discussions with the radical successful his constituency.