Chhattisgarh Cabinet Ministers portfolios: Vishnu Deo Sai, former union minister of steel, labour and employment and a four-time Lok Sabha MP was sworn in as Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister alongside Deputy CMs Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma.

Nine new MLAs were sworn in and joined the Chhattisgarh cabinet on December 22 in a ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Raipur, administered by Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan. Among them were eight-term MLA Brijmohan Agrawal, former Ministers Ramvichar Netam, Kedar Kashyap, and Dayaldas Baghel, alongside OP Choudhary, Tank Ram Verma, Laxmi Rajwade (all first-time MLAs), and second-time legislators Shyam Bihari Jaiswal and Lakhanlal Dewangan, appointed as ministers.However the portfolis of the miniters are yet to be announced.

Deputy Chief Ministers Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma had previously taken their oaths on December 13 during Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai’s swearing-in. The Chief Minister has announced intentions to include the remaining ministers in the cabinet shortly.

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Chhattisgarh: Full list of Ministers and their portfolios

Nine new MLAs have been sworn in, but their portfolios are yet to be announced. The names are as follows: Brijmohan Agrawal, Ramvichar Netam, Kedar Kashyap, Dayaldas Baghel, OP Choudhary, Tank Ram Verma, Laxmi Rajwade, Shyam Bihari Jaiswal, and Lakhanlal Dewangan.

  • Chief Minister – Vishnu Deo Sai
  • Deputy Chief Minister – Arun Sao
  • Deputy Chief Minister – Vijay Sharma
  • Home Parliamentary affairs
  • SC/ST welfare department
  • farmers’ welfare and agriculture development
  • Water resources department, fishers and fisheries development
  • Revenue and Transport
  • Public works department and rural industries
  • Finance and commercial tax
  • Energy
  • Food and civil supplies and consumer protection
  • Sports and Youth Welfare
  • Urban administration and development
  • Public health engineering
  • Mineral resources and labour
  • Medical education, Bhopal gas tragedy and relief
  • Women and child development
  • Health and Family Welfare department
  • Panchayat and rural development
  • Animal, social justice and divyang welfare
  • Minor, small and medium enterprises and science and technology
  • Tourism, culture and spiritual
  • Cooperatives and public service management
  • Higher education department
  • New and renewable energy
  • Industrial policy and investment promotion
  • Food processing and horticulture
  • School education department
  • Backward class and minority welfare
  • AYUSH and water resources
  • Public health engineering
  • Farmers welfare and agriculture development
  • Public works department
  • Urban administration and development

(Note: The list will be updated once the ministers are sworn in and the portfolios are allocated.)

The appointment comes after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed victory in Chhattisgarh by winning 54 out of 90 seats while the party’s rival Congress bagged only 35 seats. Vishnu Deo Sai emerged victorious in the Kunkuri Assembly seat securing 87,604 votes and defeating U.D Minj of Congress by a margin of 25,541.