CM to announce portfolios of ministers in next two days

JAIPUR: The Bhajan Lal Sharma government is likely to announce the portfolios of its 25 ministers, including the CM, in the next two days. The party leaders, during the meeting in Jaipur on December 27, broadly decided on faces for 14 departments, including home, finance, healthcare, education, social justice, mining, DoIT, youth and sports, agriculture, etc.
The CM is expected to visit Delhi in the coming days to hold discussions on the distribution of portfolios with party president JP Nadda.The government is waiting for the green signal from Delhi, as the latter is working to assign bureaucrats to the important departments. The government is in a rush to assign the portfolios before the scheduled visit of PM Narendra Modi to Jaipur on January 6 to attend the national conference of DG-IG.
Sources said that the party will follow the pattern of portfolio distribution of the MP and Chhattisgarh. Like in Madhya Pradesh, CM Manoj Yadav does have home department but doesn't have an important financial portfolio. In Chhattisgarh, CM Vishnu Deo Sai has not kept important portfolios like finance and home.
"Bhajan Lal is likely to not have heavily loaded departments, and his deputies, Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa, are front-runners for the two most important departments, home and finance," said a party source.
Other than the two deputy CMs, the important departments are set for cabinet ministers: Jhotwara MLA Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Sawai Madhopur MLA Kirori Lal Meena, Malpura MLA Kanhaiyalal Choudhary, and Ramganj Mandi MLA Madan Dilawar.
"The cabinet ministers from the dominant communities like Rajput, ST, Jat, and SC will get the plum departments like education, mining, healthcare, DoIT, agriculture, panchayati raj, and environment, etc. Certainly, every cabinet minister will be assigned an experienced bureaucrat, which will be decided in consultation with Delhi," said a source.
The five ministers of state with independent charge will also get Sanjay Sharma, Jabar Singh Kharra, Surendra Pal Singh TT, Heralal Nagar, and Gautam Kumar are scanned for the portfolios based on their political experience, education level and regional background.