Exhibiting what BJP insiders stated was an emphasis on organisational loyalty over some other issue, two first-time legislators who’ve been with the get together for the reason that starting had been chosen for as many berths within the Delhi Cupboard in comparison with two former Congress ministers and an AAP minister.
The Sangh’s alternative is writ massive on each the alternatives — Ravinder Indraj Singh and Pankaj Kumar Singh, who symbolize the reserved Bawana Meeting and Vikaspuri, respectively.
Former AAP minister Kailash Gahlot, who switched to the BJP months earlier than the Meeting polls, is now the Bijwasan MLA. Gandhi Nagar MLA Arvinder Singh Beautiful and Mangolpuri MLA Rajkumar Chauhan, who had been a part of successive Congress authorities cupboards with Sheila Dikshit on the helm, have been not noted within the chilly, at the very least in the interim.
Gahlot was probably the most senior minister within the AAP authorities who give up and joined BJP. Sources stated he was being thought of to move a authorities board or authority. Aside from cupboard positions, key posts in autonomous our bodies and boards, such because the Delhi Jal Board vice-chairperson, Delhi Fee for Ladies Chairperson, and Delhi Fee for Safety of Baby Rights, are but to be stuffed.
Chauhan is a former four-time MLA who served on the Dikshit-led Delhi cupboard thrice.
In 1998, Beautiful turned the youngest Delhi MLA and 5 years later, on the age of 30, turned the youngest minister within the Dikshit authorities. Thought of the then Chief Minister’s confidant, he acquired key portfolios resembling Schooling, Transport and City Growth throughout her three tenures. It was throughout his tenure that Delhi’s notorious Blueline buses had been changed with the inexperienced, crimson, and orange low-floor buses.
Beautiful was the schooling minister when Delhi turned the primary to implement 25% reservation for youngsters from the Economically Weaker Part in non-public faculties. He was the City Growth Minister when the approval to regularise unauthorised colonies was first made in 2012-13. The plan, nevertheless, took a very long time to get the Centre’s approval and carried out on the bottom, which occurred in 2018-19 when the BJP was in energy on the Centre.
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Although focused by the AAP over alleged corruption, Beautiful performed a component in giving “outdoors assist” to the AAP in 2013, enabling it to type a authorities that lasted for 49 days. He was heading the Delhi Congress when the AAP handed the get together a crushing defeat within the 2015 Meeting polls. Subsequently, Beautiful resigned as DPCC president for the primary time and joined the BJP. Inside months, he returned to the Congress fold however left for the BJP once more earlier than the Lok Sabha polls in 2024.
The opposite leaders from the Congress to have joined the BJP between 2022 and earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections embrace Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who defeated the AAP’s Manish Sisodia in Jangpura, Neeraj Basoya who obtained elected from Kasturba Nagar and Naseeb Singh who didn’t get a ticket this time.
A senior political chief, who joined the BJP lately, stated, “There is no such thing as a subject like that (with regard to exclusion from the seven-member cupboard)… We had been neither anticipating any cupboard berth nor was it communicated to us (that we’d get one). We had joined the BJP as a result of we had been in settlement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient for the nation, not for private profit.”
BJP sources stated senior leaders — each who had been with the get together for the reason that starting in addition to those that had joined it later — had been prone to be accommodated in positions resembling Parliamentary Secretaries, Boards and autonomous establishments below the Delhi authorities.
