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Ajay Yadav gets Finance, Surjewala Public Health
Sonia sets up panel to monitor new govt
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Virender political adviser to CM
Three Independents among nine appointed CPSs
Govt in place, Hooda talks of growth
Sirsa, Fatehabad get a fair deal
Acid thrown on 13-yr-old girl
3 lose vision after operation
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Ajay Yadav gets Finance, Surjewala Public Health
Chandigarh, November 7 On the recommendation of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, portfolios were allocated to the newly constituted Council of Ministers here today. Randeep Singh Surjewala will hold the portfolios of Water Supply and Sanitation, Parliamentary Affairs, Electronics and Information Technology, Science and Technology and Public Works (Building and Roads) Department, while Mahender Partap Singh would hold the portfolios of Power, Renewable Energy, Labour and Employment, Food and Supplies, Urban Local Bodies and Industries and Commerce. Om Parkash Jain has been given Transport, Tourism, Civil Aviation and Hospitality. Paramvir Singh will hold the portfolios of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Fisheries and Cooperation, while Geeta Bhukkal will look after Education and Languages, Social Justice and Empowerment, Women and Child Development, Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes, Health, Printing and Stationery. Among the ministers of state, Shiv Charan Sharma will hold the portfolios of Revenue and Disaster Management (attached with the Chief Minister), Consolidation and Rehabilitation. Gopal Kanda has been given Home (attached with the Chief Minister), Sports and Youth Affairs (attached with the Chief Minister), Industries and Commerce (attached with the Industries Minister). Sukhbir Kataria will hold the portfolios of Agriculture and Cooperation for which he would be attached with Agriculture and Cooperation Minister. The chief parliamentary secretaries have been attached with ministers holding the portfolios of various departments to assist them in their functioning.
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Sonia sets up panel to monitor new govt
Chandigarh, November 7 Congress president Sonia Gandhi has constituted this seven-member committee under the AICC general secretary in charge of the state Prithviraj Chavan, while bitter Hooda-critic and Haryana’s former Finance minister Birender Singh has been made its co-chairman. The other members include state unit president Phool Chand Mullana, Union Tourism Minister Selja, Member of Parliament Ram Prakash and Haryana’s Finance Minister Ajay Singh Yadav. Sources in the Congress said that the committee has been constituted to regulate the working of the government as also to build bridges between the government and the party. The committee will give "directions" to the new government for implementation of the promises made in the party manifesto during the election campaign,” Birender Singh said. While the constitution of the committee at such an early stage of government formation has come as a surprise, leaders said that the attempt would be to ensure that the government does not “commit a faux pas which will cost the party dear”. |
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Three Independents among nine appointed CPSs Chandigarh: The Hooda government appointed nine legislators as Chief Parliamentary Secretaries(CPS) of which three are Independents. At a separate ceremony at Haryana Niwas, held after the swearing-in of the Cabinet at the Haryana Raj Bhawan, with equal aplomb, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda administered oath to the newly appointed CPSs. The CPSs have been attached with mnisters holding the portfolios of various departments to assist the latter in their functioning. Anita Yadav will assist the ministers of Food and Supplies, Women and Child Development while Dan Singh will assist the Education and Excise and Taxation Minister. Former Dharambir Singh will assist Agriculture, Development and Panchayat Ministers while Jaivir Balmiki will assist Social Welfare Minister. Jaleb Khan will assist Revenue and Disaster Management and Employment Ministers, Prahlad Singh Gillakhera has been attached to PWD (B&R) Minister while Ram Kishan Fouji has been attached to Ministers holding the portfolios of Health, Medical Education, Administration of Justice and Hospitality. Sharda Rathore will assist the ministers in the Departments of Technical Education, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs and Urban Local Bodies. Similarly, Sultan Singh will be attached to Irrigation and Transport Ministers. — TNS
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Govt in place, Hooda talks of growth
Chandigarh, November 7 “Each member of the Cabinet will have to work hard to realise this goal of the government. While the various pro-people schemes initiated in our last term will be continued, we will look for other ways and means to hasten development,” Hooda said, speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the Cabinet expansion. Replying to a question about the Congress seeking support of the HJC, Hooda said, “There have been no talks with him. He had earlier offered unconditional support and we are still open to that.” In reply to a question about how he intends accommodating Congress heavyweights, including Kiran Choudhry, left out in the first round of expansion, the Chief Minister said there were still four vacancies available in the Cabinet. “We will decide when the time comes,” he stated. |
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Sirsa, Fatehabad get a fair deal
Sirsa/Fatehabad, November 7 The two districts have been able to get one cabinet minister, one Minister of State and one Chief Parliamentary Secretary in today’s expansion. In fact, the Congress could win only one out of the nine assembly seats coming under the Sirsa Parliamentary seat and Paramvir Singh, who saved party’s prestige from the Tohana assembly seat, has been rewarded with a cabinet rank in Hooda’s cabinet. Sirsa and Fatehabad seats had gone to Independents Gopal Kanda and Prahlad Singh Gillankhera, respectively. Kanda has been inducted as Minister of State and Gillankhera has been made Chief Parliamentary Secretary. For Paramvir Singh, who was Parliamentary Secretary in the last cabinet of Hooda, elevation to the post of cabinet minister is a well-deserved reward for keeping party’s flag high in an area that went with the INLD in these assembly elections. MDLR chairman Gopal Kanda will be the only representative in the state cabinet from Sirsa district. Former Minister LD Arora (Sirsa), former Deputy Chairman of State Planning Board Ranjit Singh (Rania), Hooda’s former aide KV Singh (Dabwali) and Sushil Indora (Kalanwali) were all hot contenders for ministerial berths before the assembly polls, but all failed to win from their seats. Kanda will have a big responsibility to keep the morale of those opposed to the INLD high, particularly at a time, when Ellenabad assembly seat coming under this district will be going to bypoll soon.
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Acid thrown on 13-yr-old girl
Sonepat, November 7 The victim, a class VII student at Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Gohana, was returning back home after her classes yesterday when Sajjan, alias Meenu (14), allegedly threw acid on her, they said. The girl was immediately rushed to a local community health centre where she is stated to be out of danger, the police said, adding the victim sustained burn injuries on her body. The police has registered a case against the youth, who had fled the scene after the incident.
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3 lose vision after operation
Sonepat, Novemer 7 The women identified as Aisha (50), Anwari (75) and Lado (80), were selected by a team of eye-surgeons for operation at the camp organised by Jain Sewa Samiti and Senior Citizens Parishad, at Jain Mandir School on October 24, they said. The surgery was performed two days later. The women now allege they have lost their eyesight after the surgery, they said. Civil Surgeon JS Punia said they received a complaint from these women and they would be re-examined by the eye-surgeons soon.
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