Highlights
Apart from some additions, the CM has not made any changes in the portfolios held by the ministers earlier.
Pushkar Singh Dhami took oath as the 11th chief minister of Uttarakhand on Sunday.
Along with Dhami, 11 BJP legislators also took oath as the state cabinet ministers at the ceremony.
New Delhi: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday (July 6) allocated portfolios to newly inducted ministers while keeping the crucial ministries including Home and Finance for himself. Apart from some additions, the CM has not made any changes in the portfolios held by the ministers earlier.
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DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday distributed portfolios among his cabinet colleagues while keeping 15 departments, including key departments of home, finance, revenue, civil aviation, planning, mining and general administration with himself. Meanwhile, after four years of the present BJP dispensation, the state got a dedicated health minister with the charge of the health department on Tuesday being given to Dhan Singh Rawat.
In the earlier dispensations of Trivendra Rawat and Tirath Rawat, the health department was with the CM. However, unlike his predecessors, Dhami has allotted key departments like health, power, excise and PWD to his colleagues.
Uttarakhand: CM Distributes Key Posts, Triggering Speculation of a Cabinet Expansion
A few months ago, signs of rebellion had started to show in the BJP against the chief minister.
Trivendra Singh Rawat. Photo: Facebook/Trivendra Singh Rawat
Politics28/Feb/2021
New Delhi: Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat distributed 17 key positions in different boards, councils and corporations, sparking speculation of an expansion of the cabinet in the coming days. This move, many think, is a build up before the state assembly elections scheduled in the early part of next year.
According to a report in the
Times of India, on February 26, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Anil Goyal was made the vice-chairperson of Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority and Kailash Pant was appointed at the chairperson of Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Advisory Committee. At least three berths in the state cabinet are lying vacant.