The cabinet expansion in Punjab will take place today. The new cabinet ministers of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi will take oath at 4.30 pm on Sunday. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at the Chandigarh Governor’s House. Governor Banwari will administer the oath to the new ministers of Purohit Channi.
According to the information, 15 faces will be included in CM Channi’s cabinet. These include Brahm Mohindra, Bharat Bhushan, Manpreet Badal, Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Kuljit Nagra, Pargat Singh, Sukhbinder Sarkaria, Vijay Inder Singhla, Rajkumar Verka, Rana Gurjit Singh, Sangat Giljian, Rakesh Pandey, Raja Vading, Razia Sultana, Gurkeerat Kotli. Are included. According to sources, Balbir Sidhu, Rana Gurmeet Sodhi, Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and Sundar Shyam Arora may be dropped from the Channi cabinet.
Congress high command has finalized all the names. CM Channi has elected the new cabinet after long meetings with Rahul Gandhi and the high command. A long meeting was held at Rahul Gandhi’s residence in Delhi on Friday to finalize the names of the new cabinet. CM Channi, Navjot Sidhu, Sukhwinder Singh Bajwa and Gopi Soni were present in this meeting. Five former ministers i.e. Captain Amarinder Singh’s colleagues have not been given place in the new cabinet. While seven new faces are being inducted.
For the uninformed, after the resignation of the Captain, Charanjit Singh Channi has been made the Chief Minister. On Monday, Charanjit Singh Channi took oath as the 16th Chief Minister of Punjab in the presence of Governor Banwarilal Purohit in Chandigarh. Besides Channi, two deputy CMs Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa (a Jat Sikh) and OP Soni (a Hindu) also took oath. Charanjit Singh Channi was technical education in the Amarinder Singh government. He is a 3-time MLA from Chamkaur Sahib and is considered a close aide of Navjot Sidhu.
