Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj set to be new AAP ministers after Sisodia and Jain resignations

Atishi is expected to handle key departments such as Education, Labour, and Tourism, and Saurabh Bharadwaj is likely to be assigned the PWD, and power and home departments, as per sources.

AAP MLAs Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj (Photos via their Facebook, Twitter pages)

2 min readNew DelhiMar 2, 2023 07:02 AM IST First published on: Mar 1, 2023 at 12:36 PM IST

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has picked MLAs Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi as the two new faces in the Delhi cabinet. According to sources, their names will be sent to Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, as per rules, who will then forward them to the President for her assent.

This comes a day after Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain resigned from their ministerial positions. While Sisodia is in CBI custody in the Delhi excise policy case, Jain is in Tihar Jail on allegations of money laundering in a case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate.

According to sources, Atishi is expected to handle key departments such as Education, Labour, and Tourism, especially in the run-up to the G20 summit, and Bharadwaj is likely to be assigned the Public Works Department (PWD), and power and home departments.