Goa: CM Manohar Parriakar chairs first Cabinet meeting after US return
India | June 18, 2018 23:30 ISTParrikar spent nearly three months in the US where he underwent treatment for a pancreatic ailment and returned home last week.
Parrikar spent nearly three months in the US where he underwent treatment for a pancreatic ailment and returned home last week.
The three ministers - Churamani Mahato, James Kujur and Abani Joardar - resigned on Wednesday, apparently under Banerjee's instructions.
Governor Vajubhai R. Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers at Raj Bhavan.
As per the coalition agreement on June 1, Congress was allocated 22 ministerial berths and 12 to JD(S), among which nine MLA's will be inducted in the first phase of cabinet expansion
While the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) will keep the Finance portfolio, the Congress will get Home among other departments.
The Supreme Court-appointed CoA has now written to the state associations, asking them to act even before the hearing.
He also said that the expansion of his Cabinet would take place once the state Congress leaders get an approval from their high command.
Deo, 45, who has been given the communications and multimedia portfolio, is among the two politicians of Indian descent included in the Pakatan Harapan coalition's Cabinet.
The saffron party had on April 17 asked all its nine ministers in the PDP-BJP government in the state to submit their resignations to enable bringing in new faces in the two-year-old Mufti cabinet.
Ahead of the reshuffle, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh resigned on Sunday. The post will be filled by Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker and BJP leader Kavinder Gupta.
This comes as the much-awaited reshuffle in the Mehbooba Mufti led Jammu and Kashmir government is yet to take place with the BJP expected to bring in some new faces.
The reshuffle comes within a fortnight of the ruling partner BJP asking all its ministers in the state government to resign soon after two party ministers resigned over the Kathua rape and murder case.
The issue soon took the social media by storm and snowballed into a controversy as the person came under attack from twitteratis and politicians.
Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore administered the oath of office to the new ministers.
So far, the DD app has seen 1,00,000 downloads as of March 2018 and the technology is in place in 19 cities, including metros.
At least 55.6 percent cab drivers drink and drive on Delhi-NCR roads, putting the lives of passengers and road users at risk.
The driver is associated with a private company that is being probed, the police said.
Subir, who has also been a former IPL Governing Council member and a CAB veteran, is a part of the anti-Sourav Ganguly faction in the state association.
After attending the Cabinet meeting today, IT and Law Minister RS Prasad addressed the media and said, the Cabinet today approved installation of telecom towers in all army cantonments in order to improve mobile connectivity.
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