New Delhi: Hours after ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, arrested on corruption charges, resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led cabinet, Delhi Revenue Minister Kailash Gahlot was on Tuesday (February 28, 2023) given the additional charge of finance and electricity. While Social Welfare Minister Raj Kumar Anand has been given the education and health portfolios. Sisodia was handling 18 out of a total of 33 portfolios in the Delhi government and his portfolios have been divided between Gehlot and Anand under the temporary arrangement. The development came after Kejriwal accepted the resignations of two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, who were instrumental in implementing his regime’s agenda of good education and healthcare facilities in the capital.
Gehlot was already in charge of six departments while Raj Kumar Anand had four.
“Till the time new ministers are appointed, the allocation of additional portfolios for the interim period will allow Gehlot to retain Finance, Planning, Public Works Department, Power, Home, Urban Development, Irrigation and Flood Control, and Water as well as his own.” Will take care of the existing departments,” news agency PTI quoted an official as saying.
“Raj Kumar Anand will look after education, land and buildings, vigilance, services, tourism, art culture and language, labour, employment, health and industry in addition to his existing portfolios,” the official said.
While Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI after nearly nine hours of questioning in the excise policy case that ended on Sunday evening, Satyendar Jain, currently lodged in Tihar, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case in May last year. did. ,
Jain, however, continued to be a minister in the Delhi government without any portfolio. Jain’s portfolios including health, home and urban development were handed over to Sisodia.