AAP Appoints Budh Ram As Working President Of Punjab Unit

Aam Aadmi Party has appointed Budh Ram as working president of party's Punjab unit.

Aam Aadmi Party has appointed Budh Ram as working president of party's Punjab unit.

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Aam Aadmi Party has appointed Budh Ram as working president of party's Punjab unit. The party has also appointed four state vice presidents, one state general secretary and state youth wing president for Punjab.

Amansher Singh, Jasvir Singh Raja Gill, Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar and Tarunpreet Singh Sond have been appointed as party's state vice president. Jagroop Singh Sekhwan was appointed as State General Secretary.
 

Punjab Govt Reallocated Portfolios Of Five Cabinet Ministers Last Month, Including Newly Sworn In MLAs

Last month, the Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government reallocated Portfolios of five Cabinet Ministers. This comes after Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Gurmeet Singh Khudian and Balkar Singh were sworn in as new ministers in Punjab earlier in the day as the state government expanded its cabinet.

The newly sworn in ministers were allocated portfolios. Balkar Singh was allocated local government and Parliamentary Affairs. On the other hand, Gurmeet Singh Khudian, another newly sworn in minister, was allocated three portfolios, namely, Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development and Food Processing.

The oath of office and secrecy was administered by Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit at the Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh. Khudian, 60, is legislator from Lambi seat in Muktsar. He was the party's “giant slayer” who defeated five-time chief minister Parkash Singh Badal from his home turf by a margin of 11,396 votes in the 2022 Punjab Assembly polls. It was the third cabinet expansion of the 14-month old Bhagwant Mann-led government in Punjab.

In July 2022, the Bhagwant Mann government had carried out its first cabinet expansion, inducting five party legislators. In January this year, senior AAP leader and Patiala Rural MLA Dr Balbir Singh was sworn-in as cabinet minister, after Fauja Singh Sarari tendered his resignation. 

In the Punjab Assembly elections held last year, the AAP registered a landslide victory by winning 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly. It decimated the Congress and the SAD-BSP combined. The party’s candidates defeated several stalwarts, including the outgoing chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal. 

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