With the Jat-Dalit combination of Dotasra and Jully, the Congress party hopes to consolidate support from these communities in the Lok Sabha elections coming up later this year.
Power generation is at a record low, leaving most of the Union Territory struggling with eight-hour cuts; latest deal to supply power to Rajasthan feeds into old fears of Centre "exploiting its resources"
While Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and deputy chief ministers Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa were sworn in on December 15, the suspense over other ministerial faces had been building up since the last fortnight, with the opposition Congress training guns on the BJP over the delay.