After 17 days of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his deputy Dushyant Chautala taking oath of office and secrecy, the first Cabinet expansion took place on Thursday, November 14.
Earlier, BJP leader Khattar took oath along with his alliance partner Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader Chautala, the great-grandson of former deputy prime minister late Devi Lal, on October 27.
The Cabinet can have a maximum of 14 ministers, including the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister.
Here’s the complete list of ministers in Haryana Legislative Assembly
Ministers
- Anil Vij
- Kanwar Pal
- Mool Chand Sharma
- Ranjit Singh
- Jai Parkash Dalal
- Banwari Lal
Minister of State (Independent Charge)
- Om Prakash Yadav
- Kamlesh Dhanda
- Anoop Dhanak
- Sandeep Singh
The BJP won 40 seats and was six short of a majority in the 90-member Assembly. Besides the 10 JJP legislators, seven independent MLAs have also extended support to the BJP, helping it reach a tally of 57 seats. The Congress won 31 seats, improving its tally from 19 in 2014.
Dushyant parted ways with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in December 2018 after a bitter vertical split in the party and the Chautala family and formed the JJP.
Ahead of the induction of the council of ministers, both BJP and JJP leaders have worked on the formulation of a common minimum programme, admitted a BJP legislator.
Dushyant won 10 seats by wooing the youth for whom he promised 75 per cent reservation in private jobs and to reduce long distances that the unemployed have to travel for recruitment examinations.
The BJP came to power with a pledge to give an interest-free crop loan of up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers, besides setting up a Ministry of Youth Development and Self Employment and imparting skills to 25 lakh youth at an outlay of Rs 500 crore.
With inputs from IANS
