After the resignations of Delhi cabinet ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, the Aam Aadmi Party decided to hand the portfolios, and they managed to the revenue minister Kailash Gahlot and social welfare Minister Raj Kumar Anand. The upcoming budget of the Delhi government is also to be presented by Gahlot himself.
Public Works, Finance, power, planning, Urban Development, home, flood control, irrigation, and water departments are going to be handled by Kailash Gahlot, according to Asian News International. The Deputy Chief Minister for Delhi, Manish Sisodia, was responsible for some of these departments until his resignation.
Raj Kumar Anand will take over the education, vigilance, land and building, art culture and heritage, tourism, health, employment, and industries department at the four fronts of Delhi’s social welfare department. Before Anand, these departments were all managed and headed by Satyendar Jain.
Manish Sisodiya resigned as a cabinet minister after his plea, which was challenging the CBI’s actions against him in the Delhi excise policy case, was dismissed by the Supreme Court. Following his example, Satyendar Jain also resigned yesterday.
Sisodiya is believed to be one of the most important leaders and politicians within the Aam Aadmi Party and was responsible for somewhere around 18 ministries of the Delhi government. He even took over the portfolios of Satyendar Jain after his arrest in May of 2022.
The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi on the 26th of February after eight long hours of interrogation, during which he allegedly could not answer questions thrown at him by the investigating officers in a satisfactory manner. Because of this, he was arrested under the prevention of corruption act of 1988. The CBI has accused him of being involved in an unethical and unfair manner while doling out Liquor licenses to owners of liquor shops in the national capital.
The former Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain was also arrested under similar charges, except his primary charge was of laundering money that he was allegedly gaining by misusing his position as a cabinet minister. Thus far, the Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, has accepted the resignation of these two ministers.
