Printed on: Aug 19, 2025 08:32 pm IST
Chhattisgarh governor Ramen Deka will administer the oath of workplace to the newly inducted ministers at 10:30am
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai will broaden his council of ministers on Wednesday morning, in keeping with Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) leaders within the state, who made the announcement on Tuesday.
Governor Ramen Deka will administer the oath of workplace to the newly inducted ministers at 10:30am. The Chhattisgarh BJP, nonetheless, didn’t verify the variety of ministers to be inducted on the occasion.. Some BJP leaders stated three legislators had been more likely to be administered oath which might elevate the energy of the state cupboard to 14.
The Vishnu Deo Sai-led council of ministers at present has 11 members. The Structure caps the dimensions of the council of ministers at 15 per cent of the energy of the decrease home. Within the case of Chhattisgarh’s 90-member Home, this restrict was beforehand understood to cap the energy at 13 ministers, together with the CM since 15percentof 90 MLAs works out to 13.5.
However BJP leaders stated the federal government was tilting in favour of the Haryana mannequin, which has defended its determination to nominate 14 ministers on the bottom that the federal government had rounded off the determine to 14.
The Haryana determination has been challenged within the excessive courtroom, however there was no ruling but.
The BJP secured 54 seats within the 2023 meeting polls, whereas the Congress received 35 and the Gondwana Gantantra Celebration one.
Sai, together with deputy chief ministers Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma, took oath on December 13, 2023. 9 different ministers had been sworn in later that month.
The cupboard energy declined to 11 final 12 months after Brijmohan Agrawal resigned as minister following his election to the Lok Sabha from Raipur.
Among the many frontrunners for Wednesday’s cupboard enlargement are Durg MLA Gajendra Yadav, who belongs to the numerically vital OBC Yadav neighborhood and has an RSS background; Arang MLA Guru Khushwant Saheb, son of Satnami sect chief Baldas Saheb, representing a key Scheduled Caste vote base; and Ambikapur MLA Rajesh Agrawal, who defeated senior Congress chief after which deputy chief minister T S Singh Deo within the final meeting election.
