New Delhi: Newly appointed Delhi chief minister Atishi will head 13 departments in the new government. These include Public Works Department, Power, Education, Higher Education, Training & Technical Education, Public Relations Department, Revenue, Finance, Planning, Services, Vigilance, Water, Law, Justice and Legislative Affairs. Atishi was also heading these departments under Arvind Kejriwal government.
Gopal Rai gets Environment, Kailash Gehlot Transport
Among the ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj will take charge of eight departments including Urban Development, Irrigation and Flood Control, Health, Industries, Art, Culture & Language, Tourism, Social Welfare, and Cooperative.
Gopal Rai will have three departments Development, General Administration Department, and Environment, Forest and Wild Life. Kailash Gehlot got five departments including Transport, Administrative Reforms, Information & Technology, Home, and Women and Child Development. Imran Hussain will head Food & Supply and Election departments.
New face Ahlawat gets five departments
Mukesh Ahlawat, the only new face, got five departments including Gurudwara Elections, SC & ST, Land & Building, Labour, and Employment.
Earlier in the day, Atishi took oath as the eight chief minister of Delhi. The first-term Kalkaji MLA became the leader of AAP’s legislative party after Arvind Kejriwal resigned as the chief minister earlier this week. Apart from Atishi, five AAP MLAs also took oath as ministers.
After taking oath, she launched a scathing attack on BJP and Delhi LG VK Saxena of stopping development work in the national capital. “For the next four months, my work would be to take care of the people of Delhi. BJP has tried everything from jailing AAP leaders and stopping the work of development in Delhi. BJP and LG (VK Saxena) stopped the road works, stopped medicines from reaching the hospitals, stopped the tests in mohalla clinics,” she said while addressing a press conference.
She also accused the BJP and LG of stopping garbage collection, promising that all these works will be completed.” The garbage would be picked up, medicines will be supplied, the sewage work will be completed,” she added.
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