JAIPUR, Dec 20: Nine BJP MLAs were today sworn in as cabinet ministers while three others were given independent charge as Minister of State in the Vasundhra Raje Government.
Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers at Raj Bhawan here.
Old faces G C Kataria, Rajendra Singh Rathore, Kalicharan Saraf, Kailash Meghwal, Sanwar Lal Jat, Prabhu Lal Saini, Gajendra Singh Kheenvsar, Yunus Khan, and Nandlal Meena were administered the oath as cabinet ministers.
Three new legislators Arun Chaturvedi, Ajay Singh, and Hemsingh Bhadana were inducted as Minister of State (independent charge) in the Raje cabinet.
Two of the nine cabinet ministers, Kataria and Rathore have criminal charges against them.
Kataria, former Home Minister in previous term of Raje, is accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case of Gujarat in which CBI has filed a supplementary charge sheet against him early this year.
A Mumbai court has granted him an anticipatory bail.
Rathore was arrested and sent to jail by CBI in connection with the Dara Singh fake encounter case in which about a dozen policemen are already in jail.
A Jaipur court had discharged him in a controversial order even before charges were framed against him.
Raje was sworn-in as Rajasthan Chief Minister on December 13. (PTI)
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