Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday inducted 10 cupboard ministers, together with a girl, in his cupboard, displaying a desire for first-time legislators.

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Barring Harpal Singh Cheema and Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, the opposite ministers have been elected to the meeting for the primary time.

Cheema, 47, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Dirba, was the chief of the opposition within the earlier meeting.

Hayer, who has bought re-elected from Barnala, is the state youth wing president of the AAP.

Dr Baljit Kaur (Malout), Harbhajan Singh (Jandiala), Dr Vijay Singla (Mansa), Lal Chand Kataruchak (Bhoa), Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal (Ajnala), Laljit Singh Bhullar (Patti), Brahm Shanker Jimpa (Hoshiarpur), and Harjot Singh Bains (Anandpur Sahib) are the first-time legislators inducted into the state cupboard.

“Many, many congratulations to all the ministers who will be in the AAP government of Punjab. The people of Punjab have given a big responsibility to all of us. We have to serve the people by working hard day and night, and give them an honest government. We have to make Rangla Punjab,” Mann had tweeted whereas saying his cupboard on Friday.

Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to them at a easy ceremony at Guru Nanak Auditorium in Raj Bhawan right here within the presence of Mann and different AAP leaders and legislators.

All 10 cupboard ministers took the oath in Punjabi.

Chief secretary Anirudh Tewari carried out the proceedings.

The state cupboard will maintain its first assembly at 2pm.

The newly inducted ministers and MLAs got here together with their members of the family. Mann’s kids Seerat and Dilshan have been additionally current. In distinction, Mann’s swearing-in at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, on Wednesday was a grand affair.

Mann had named his group in a tweet on Friday night, giving the names and photographs of MLAs to be sworn-in as cupboard ministers.

The AAP swept the polls, successful 92 of the 117 meeting seats, pushing the Congress to a distant runner-up place with solely 18 seats.

The names of senior celebration leaders Aman Arora, Saravjit Kaur Manuke, Baljinder Kaur, Budh Ram, and Kultar Singh Sandhwan have been additionally doing the rounds in celebration circles earlier for cupboard berths.

All 5 have been re-elected from their seats for the second time, however haven’t discovered place within the first listing of cupboard ministers. The constitutional cap permits 18 ministers, together with the chief minister, which is 15% of the variety of members of the meeting.

The celebration has determined to appoint Kotkapura MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan for the Speaker’s publish. He shall be formally elected because the Speaker on March 21.

“Heartful thanks to my leader Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann for reposing faith in me by nominating me as the Speaker of the historic 16th Punjab Vidhan Sabha,” Sandhwan tweeted quickly after the announcement on Friday night.