Punjab Cabinet Expansion

The Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab will on Wednesday induct MLAs Balkar Singh and Gurmeet Singh Khudian as cabinet ministers, officials said.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday allocated portfolios to the five newly inducted ministers a day after the first cabinet expansion of his over three-month-old government.

Five Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on Monday were inducted as ministers in the Punjab government as Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann expanded his cabinet. It was the first Cabinet expansion since the party came to power in Punjab.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will expand his cabinet on July 4 as five MLAs are expected to be inducted as ministers, said party sources on Sunday.

Hours before the first cabinet expansion of the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Punjab government, a group of ministers in the previous Amarinder Singh government on Sunday questioned the apparent decision to drop them.

Six of the 15 MLAs to be made ministers in Punjab's expanded cabinet today are totally new to the job, according to sources. At least one of them is returning to the ministerial position after three years, they said. Resentment is brewing among MLAs.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was again called to Delhi by the Congress high command to discuss the expansion of the state Cabinet, just hours after he returned from the national capital, according to sources.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, his two deputies and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu took a chartered flight to Delhi to discuss the expansion of the new Cabinet with the party's central leadership, sources said.

Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra called a meeting of 25 MLAs this morning to discuss state cabinet expansion, just days after the party settled the political tension and tussle among its two big leaders in Punjab.

Among Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new ministers is a man whose dramatic rise to power from humble origins mirrors his own story. Vijay Sampla, a 53-year-old leader from Punjab, worked as a plumber not too long ago.

The Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab will on Wednesday induct MLAs Balkar Singh and Gurmeet Singh Khudian as cabinet ministers, officials said.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday allocated portfolios to the five newly inducted ministers a day after the first cabinet expansion of his over three-month-old government.

Five Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on Monday were inducted as ministers in the Punjab government as Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann expanded his cabinet. It was the first Cabinet expansion since the party came to power in Punjab.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will expand his cabinet on July 4 as five MLAs are expected to be inducted as ministers, said party sources on Sunday.

Hours before the first cabinet expansion of the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Punjab government, a group of ministers in the previous Amarinder Singh government on Sunday questioned the apparent decision to drop them.

Six of the 15 MLAs to be made ministers in Punjab's expanded cabinet today are totally new to the job, according to sources. At least one of them is returning to the ministerial position after three years, they said. Resentment is brewing among MLAs.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was again called to Delhi by the Congress high command to discuss the expansion of the state Cabinet, just hours after he returned from the national capital, according to sources.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, his two deputies and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu took a chartered flight to Delhi to discuss the expansion of the new Cabinet with the party's central leadership, sources said.

Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra called a meeting of 25 MLAs this morning to discuss state cabinet expansion, just days after the party settled the political tension and tussle among its two big leaders in Punjab.

Among Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new ministers is a man whose dramatic rise to power from humble origins mirrors his own story. Vijay Sampla, a 53-year-old leader from Punjab, worked as a plumber not too long ago.