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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Monday shed 3 cardinal portfolios and allocated departments to 5 caller ministers, minutes aft they were administered oath of
secrecy and bureau by Governor Gulab Chand Kataria astatine Raj Bhawan.
This is the fourth furniture reshuffle of the 30-month-old AAP authorities successful the state.
Those sworn successful arsenic ministers are each first-time MLAs and see Hardeep Singh Mundian, Barinder Kumar Goyal, Tarunpreet Singh Sond,
Dr Ravjot Singh and Mohinder Bhagat. With their induction, the spot of the Cabinet, including CM Mann, reached 16.
There tin beryllium a maximum of 18 ministers successful the Punjab Cabinet.
Among the caller ministers are 2 Dalits — Bhagat and Ravjot Singh — taking the members of the SC assemblage successful the Cabinet to five.
The caller induction comes a time aft Chetan Singh Jouramajra (public relations, defence services and horticulture), Anmol Gagan Maan (tourism and concern promotion), Balkar Singh (local authorities and parliamentary affairs) and Bram Shanker Jimpa (revenue) resigned from the Cabinet connected being asked by Mann.
On Monday, Mann shed the portfolios of jail, manufacture and commerce, and lodging and municipality development.
He handed implicit the jails to Laljit Singh Bhullar but divested the curate of cardinal departments of agrarian improvement and panchayats and handed it implicit to Sond.
The displacement is important and comes up of the panchayat polls scheduled for October 20.
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