Rajasthan Cabinet: Lone RLD MLA gets ministerial berth as 23 newly-elected legislators take oath as ministers
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As many as 23 newly-elected legislators - 22 Congress and one RLD - took oath as ministers as the Rajasthan cabinet was formed on Monday. Governor Kalyan Singh administered the oath of post and secrecy to 13 cabinet ministers and 10 ministers of state at a ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan in Jaipur.
They are yet to be assigned portfolios.
Those who took the oath are: BD Kalla, Shanti Kumar Dhariwal, Parsadi Lal Meena, Bhanwar Lal Meghwal, Lal Chand Kataria, Raghu Sharma, Pramod Jain Bhaya, Vishvendra Singh, Harish Choudhary, Ramesh Chand Meena, Udai Lal Anjana, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and Saleh Mohammad.
Govind Singh Dotasara, Mamta Bhupesh, Arjun Singh Bamaniya, Bhanwar Singh Bhati, Sukhram Vishnoi, Ashok Chandna, Tikaram Jully, Bhajanlal Jatav, Rajendra Singh Yadav and RLD's Subhash Garg took oath as state ministers.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot took oath on December 17 in Jaipur. Both returned to the state capital Sunday noon after spending three days in New Delhi for a meeting with Congress President Rahul Gandhi and senior party functionaries.
AICC general secretary in charge of Rajasthan, Avinash Pandey and Congress observer for the state on government formation, KC Venugopal, besides AICC secretaries for the state were also involved in the deliberations for deciding on the ministers, the sources said.
Rajasthan can have a total of 30 ministers including the chief minister, and the Gehlot cabinet will have some vacancies left which will be filled later.
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