Ahmedabad (22.08.2022): Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections due later this year, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel stripped ministers Rajendra Trivedi and Purnesh Modi of the revenue and the roads & buildings portfolios, respectively on August 20, 2022. This has given ammunition to opposition Congress and AAP to attack the BJP. They asked the Gujarat government to make public reasons behind stripping of two cabinet ministers of their key portfolios.
Trivedi is now left with the disaster management, law and justice, legislative and parliamentary affairs department, while Mr Modi will continue to hold charge of the transport, civil aviation, tourism and pilgrimage development departments. They were either removed because they were taking decisions in favour of the public or because of corruption, the opposition claimed.
Under the new arrangement, CM Patel will hold the additional charge of both the ministries as of now, while Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi has been given the additional responsibility of revenue as its MoS. Minister of State for Industries and Forest and Environment, Jagdish Panchal, will be the MoS for road and building department.
Cong, AAP hit at BJP over stripping of portfolio of 2 important ministers
By IndianMandarins - 2022-08-22 10:22:00
Ahmedabad (22.08.2022): Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections due later this year, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel stripped ministers Rajendra Trivedi and Purnesh Modi of the revenue and the roads & buildings portfolios, respectively on August 20, 2022. This has given ammunition to opposition Congress and AAP to attack the BJP. They asked the Gujarat government to make public reasons behind stripping of two cabinet ministers of their key portfolios.
Trivedi is now left with the disaster management, law and justice, legislative and parliamentary affairs department, while Mr Modi will continue to hold charge of the transport, civil aviation, tourism and pilgrimage development departments. They were either removed because they were taking decisions in favour of the public or because of corruption, the opposition claimed.
Under the new arrangement, CM Patel will hold the additional charge of both the ministries as of now, while Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi has been given the additional responsibility of revenue as its MoS. Minister of State for Industries and Forest and Environment, Jagdish Panchal, will be the MoS for road and building department.