NEW DELHI:
Arvind Kejriwal will be heading a seven-member AAP cabinet which will include his close confidante Manish Sisodia as Deputy Chief Minister and four new faces, party sources said today.
There will be no woman in the new cabinet.
The party has submitted a list of the seven cabinet ministers to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung. The swearing in scheduled for Saturday.
The party is understood to have decided to induct Jitendra Tomar (Tri Nagar MLA), Sandeep Kumar (Sultanpuri Majra) and Asim Ahmed Khan (Matia Mahal)- the only minority face- in the Government.
Name of Karawal Nagar MLA Kapil Mishra was doing the rounds for a ministerial berth but was later replaced by senior Political Affairs Committee member and Babarpur MLA Gopal Rai.
All the four are first time legislators and the decision to induct them was taken at AAP Political Affairs Committee meeting in the wee hours today, sources said.
The list of ministers was sent to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung today.
Besides Sisodia, a close confidant of Kejriwal, another former AAP Health Minister who is going to make it this time also is Satyendra Jain, MLA from Shakur Basti.
However, Rakhi Birla, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Somnath Bharti, Girish Soni — who were in AAP’s earlier cabinet — will not make it this time.
Sources said while former Law Minister Somnath Bharti will be kept away from the cabinet till his name is cleared from the case relating to a mid-night raid where he had lead a mob and raided the house of African women, Greater Kailash MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj has given personal to opt out of the new Government. (AGENCIES)
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