NEW DELHI: Greater Kailash MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj and Kalkaji MLA Atishi will be the 2 new faces in CM Arvind Kejriwals council of ministers.
Kejriwal on Wednesday sent out the suggestion to raise Bharadwaj (43) and Atishi (41 ), both trusted aides, as ministers in his cabinet, to lieutenant governor V K Saxena.
The duo will change incarcerated lawmakers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, who resigned from the cabinet on Tuesday saying they didnt desire individualss work to be affected in their absence.While Bharadwaj is a three-term MLA who likewise served in Kejriwals very first federal government of 49 days in 2013-14 as transport and environment minister, Atishi was elected to Delhi assembly for the very first time in 2020.
Apart from being the chief spokesperson of AAP, Bharadwaj is presently turned over with the responsibility of cleaning the Yamuna and taking piped water to every household in his capability as the vice chairman of the Delhi Jal Board while Atishi has actually worked carefully with Sisodia on improving the citys schools and education system.
She is also amongst the most vocal leaders of AAP.Sources said when the President approves the resignations of Sisodia and Jain, the file to choose Bharadwaj and Atishi to the cabinet would be sent to her.
Only after their elections to the cabinet are approved will the date of their oath be decided, said a Delhi government official.This is the second time that a cabinet rejig has actually been required in this regard to the AAP government.
In October last year, Rajendra Pal Gautam was changed with Raaj Kumar Anand after the former resigned following a row around his existence at a religious conversion event.Manish Sisodia, who held 18 important portfolios, resigned from the council of ministers after his arrest by the CBI in the import tax policy probe.
Former health minister Satyendar Jain, who was apprehended in May in 2015 by the Enforcement Directorate in a supposed cash laundering case however stayed in the cabinet without a portfolio, also tendered his resignation.
His portfolios were later on offered to Sisodia.
Portfolios held by Sisodia and Jain were rearranged late on Tuesday in between existing ministers Raaj Kumar Anand and Kailash Gahlot.A software designer by profession, Saurabh Bharadwaj signed up with the India Against Corruption motion in 2011 and later on ended up being the establishing member of the Aam Aadmi Party.
A popular leader in his location, he contested the 2013, 2015 and 2020 elections from Greater Kailash and won conveniently.
He was a minister in the very first stint of the AAP federal government, he was not chosen for the cabinet in 2015.
He, however, was made Delhi state secretary and nationwide spokesperson.Talking to TOI, Bharadwaj said it referred pride for him to be raised as a minister in these attempting times.
These are difficult times for AAP when the main federal government is utilizing all its may to squash AAP.
It is a matter of excellent pride for me that CM Arvind Kejriwal reposed faith in me and advised my name to be a minister in his cabinet, Bharadwaj said.
I will continue to work for individuals of Delhi.
A masters in history from Oxford and a Rhodes scholar, Atishi also entered politics through the India Against Corruption motion.
She is currently a national executive and Public Accounts Committee member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
She is understood for her work to revamp Delhis education system in her role as advisor to Sisodia.
She also worked as chairperson of the standing committee on education of the Delhi assembly.
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