Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann-led cabinet inducts ten AAP MLAs, including eight first-timers

Ten AAP MLAs, together with a lady, have been inducted within the Bhagwant Mann-led Cupboard in Punjab on Saturday. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to the ministers at Punjab Bhawan in Chandigarh.

Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya was additionally current on the oath-taking ceremony.

Harpal Singh Cheema, Harbhajan Singh, Dr Vijay Singla, Lal Chand, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Laljit Singh Bhullar, Bram Shanker Jimpa, Harjot Singh Bains and Dr Baljit Kaur, the lone lady within the cupboard, have been administered the oath.

Among the many 10, eight are first-time MLAs. All of them took the oath in Punjabi.

Barring Harpal Singh Cheema and Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, the opposite ministers have been elected to the meeting for the primary time.

Cheema, 47, the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) MLA from Dirba, was the chief of the opposition within the earlier meeting.

Hayer, who has received re-elected from Barnala, is the state youth wing president of the AAP.

Cheema, a legislator from Dirba, was the primary to take oath adopted by Dr Baljit Kaur, the lone lady within the cupboard and MLA from Malout.

Subsequent to take the oath was Harbhajan Singh from Jandiala, adopted by Dr Vijay Singla from Mansa, Lal Chand from Bhoa, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer from Barnala, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal from Ajnala, Laljit Singh Bhullar from Patti, Bram Shanker Jimpa from Hoshiarpur and Harjot Singh Bains from Anandpur Sahib.

There are 18 berths within the cupboard, together with the chief minister, however Bhagwant Mann has gone for a lean cupboard.

Mann had introduced the names of MLAs who might be inducted into the cupboard on 18 March, 2022.

Of the cupboard members, Harpal Singh Cheema is a two-time legislator from Dirba and the occasion’s Dalit face. Cheema, 47, had been the Chief of the Opposition within the earlier meeting.

An advocate by occupation, he defeated Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Gulzar Singh Moonak from the Dirba meeting seat.

Two-time Barnala MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer is the president of the AAP’s youth wing. Hayer, 32, defeated SAD nominee Kulwant Singh Keetu. He has finished B.Tech from Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Expertise in 2012.

Dr Baljit Kaur, 46, who received from Malout seat, is an eye fixed surgeon. The daughter of former AAP MP Sadhu Singh had joined the occasion after resigning from her job at Muktsar civil hospital.

Throughout ballot conferences, she had even examined eye sufferers. She has finished MS in ophthalmology from Baba Farid College of Well being Sciences in 2010.

Dr Vijay Singla, 52, received from Mansa seat after defeating common Punjabi singer and Congress candidate from Mansa Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu Moosewala. Singla is a dental surgeon.

Lal Chand Kataruchakk, 51, received elected from the Bhoa seat in Pathankot defeating Congress’ Joginder Pal. Kataruchakk, a matriculate, and who calls himself a social employee, was additionally president of the AAP’s SC wing.

Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, 60, was elected from the Ajnala meeting seat. A matriculate, Dhaliwal defeated SAD candidate Amarpal Singh.

In accordance with his ballot affidavit, Dhaliwal was booked in 2019 at Rajasansi police station in Amritsar below numerous sections together with 302 (homicide) of the IPC however his arrest was stayed by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom.

Thirty-one-year-old Harjot Bains who was elected from Anandpur Sahib was the youngest amongst 10 ministers. An advocate by occupation, he had unsuccessfully contested from the Sahnewal meeting seat in 2017.

He has a certificates in worldwide human rights regulation from the London Faculty of Economics.

Laljit Singh Bhullar, 40, was elected from the Patti seat. He defeated political stalwart Adesh Partap Singh Kairon who’s the son-in-law of former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

An agriculturist, Bhullar had finished senior secondary in 1999.

Harbhajan Singh, 53, received from Jandiala seat in opposition to Punjab Congress working president Sukhwinder Singh Danny. He has been an excise and taxation officer.

He had unsuccessfully contested from Jandiala seat in 2017.

One other cupboard member Bram Shanker Jimpa, 56, was elected from the Hoshiarpur seat after he defeated former minister and Congress nominee Sunder Sham Arora. Jimpa, a category 12 cross, has been a councillor.

Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Protem Speaker Dr Inderbir Singh Nijjar, AAP MLAs and members of the family of those that have been inducted as ministers have been amongst these current on the occasion.

Congratulating all of the newly inducted ministers, Mann tweeted, “As we speak the brand new cupboard of Punjab took the oath and on the similar time pledged to fulfil the expectations of the individuals. Congratulations to all the brand new ministers. Now we have to work along with full sincerity for the three crore individuals of Punjab.”

The Punjab Governor administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Bhagwant Mann on 16 March, 2022, who was sworn in as chief minister at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

In accordance with the sources, the Bhagwant Mann authorities is more likely to take the choice within the Cupboard assembly to implement one of many election guarantees of the Aam Admi Get together (AAP).

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Amongst different ballot guarantees of the AAP in Punjab, the nationwide convenor of the occasion and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had promised to enhance the situation of presidency colleges and hospitals within the state, generate employment avenues, free electrical energy as much as 300 models per billing cycle and likewise promised Rs 1,000 per 30 days to ladies above 18 years.

He had additionally promised a corruption-free authorities and controlling drug menace within the state.

Earlier on 17 March, 2022, the Punjab chief minister introduced that an anti-corruption helpline might be launched within the state on ‘Shaheed Diwas (Martyr’s Day)’ on 23 March, 2022.

Mann had stated that the individuals will be capable of lodge complaints in opposition to corruption through WhatsApp.

A day after Mann assumed workplace, the AAP-led Punjab authorities took step one in the direction of fulfilling the guarantees which it had made within the run-up to the state Meeting polls – a corruption-free authorities and controlling drug menace within the state that shares a border with Pakistan.

Within the cupboard, the occasion gave illustration to 5 MLAs from Malwa, 4 from Majha and one from the Doaba area.

It has accommodated 4 MLAs who signify reserve constituencies — Dirba, Jandiala, Malout and Bhoa. Apart from, 4 are Jat Sikhs and two are Hindus.

Nevertheless, the AAP MLAs who defeated stalwarts, together with Congress’ Charanjit Singh Channi, Navjot Singh Sidhu, SAD’s Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal and Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh didn’t discover a place within the cupboard.

The AAP bagged 92 seats within the 117-member Punjab meeting, decimating the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bahujan Samaj Get together mix, and the BJP-Punjab Lok Congress-SAD (Sanyukt) alliance.

With inputs from companies

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