Rajasthan portfolios announced; CM Bhajan Lal Sharma keeps 8 ministries, Deputy CM Diya Kumari gets 6

While the Chief Minister has kept eight portfolios with himself, Kumari has been allocated six portfolios and Bairwa will hold four departments.

CM Sharma has kept the crucial Home portfolio with him, along with other important departments such as Personnel, Excise, Planning, General Administration, Department of Information and Public Relations, Policy Determination—Chief Minister’s secretariat and Anti Corruption Bureau.

Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari will hold the important portfolios of Finance, Tourism, Art, Literature and Culture, Public Works Department (PWD), Women and Child Development and Child Rights departments.

Deputy Chief Minister Prem Chand Bairwa got Technical Education Department, Higher Education Department, Ayurveda, Yoga and Natural Education, Unani and Homeopathy (Ayush Department), Transport and Road Safety departments.

Senior cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena is the new Agriculture and Horticulture minister. Rural Development, Disaster Relief and Civil Defence and Public Grievance Redressal departments have also been allocated to him.

Gajendra Singh Khinvsar will be the new Health Minister while Madan Dilawar has been allocated the School Education department, along with Panchayati Raj and Sanskrit Education.

Kanhaiyalal Choudhary has been allocated the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) while Jogaram Patel has been allocated Parliamentary Affairs, Law and Justice departments.

Former Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has been allocated the Industries and Commerce departments along with Information Technology, Youth and Sports Affairs along with Soldiers’ Welfare.

Avinash Gehlot will be the new Cabinet minister for Social Justice and Empowerment while Hemant Meena is the new Revenue Minister.

Among the Ministers of State (independent charge), Surendra Pal Singh TT, who is yet to be an MLA and is the BJP’s candidate for the elections in the Karanpur Assembly seat, has been allocated Agricultural Marketing, Indira Gandhi Canal and Minority Affairs.

Similarly, MoS Sanjay Sharma has been given the independent charge of Forest, Environment while Gautam Kumar will handle the Cooperative department.
MoS Manju Baghmar, the second woman minister, has been allocated PWD, Women and Child Development and Child Rights Departments, all of which are under Kumari.