CM Nayab Saini Keeps Home, Finance In Haryana BJP Govt 3.0, Anil Vij Gets Transport

Saini, who is MLA from Ladwa, will also be in charge of planning, excise and taxation, town and country planning and urban estates, information.

CM Saini is MLA from Ladwa in Haryana.

Source : PTI

Three days after the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Haryana, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini kept 12 key departments, including home and finance.

Saini, who is MLA from Ladwa, will also be in charge of planning, excise and taxation, town and country planning and urban estates, information, public relations, language and culture, criminal investigation, law and legislative, and housing for all departments, as per a government order issued late in the night.

Senior leader Anil Vij, who won from Ambala Cantt, got energy, transport and labour deoartments. Vij held the home and health portfolios when Manohar Lal Khattar was the chief minister.

The health department has now been allotted to Arti Singh Rao, who will also take care of the medical education and research and Ayush departments.

Saini took oath as the chief minister of Haryana at a grand ceremony in Panchkula on Thursday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a galaxy of NDA leaders attended the ceremony. Apart from Saini, 13 MLAs, including two women, took oath.

• Rao Narbir Singh: He has been allotted industries and commerce, environment, forests and wildlife departments.
• Mahipal Dhanda: He got the school education department.
• Vipul Goel: He has been allotted revenue and disaster management, urban local bodies and the civil aviation departments
• Arvind Sharma: He will handle jails and cooperation portfolios.
• Shyam Singh Rana: He will take care of the agriculture and farmers welfare department
• Ranbir Gangwa: He will handle public health engineering.
• Krishan Kumar Bedi: He has social justice, empowerment, and SCs and BCs welfare departments.
• Shruti Choudhry: She will have the women and child development portfolio.
• Krishan Lal Panwar: He has been allocated development and panchayats, and mines and geology departments.
• Rajesh Nagar: He has been allocated food, civil supplies and consumer affairs.
• Gaurav Gautam: He will handle youth empowerment and entrepreneurship, and sports departments.

The Governor of Haryana, on the advice of the chief minister, has allocated portfolios to the members of the Council of Ministers, the order said.