Last Update: February 28, 2023, 20:42 IST
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on Sunday evening in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-cancelled liquor policy for 2021-22. (File photo: Twitter)
Sisodia was handling most of the work in the cabinet, handling the charge of 18 departments. Now his portfolios will be handled by Kailash Gehlot and Raj Kumar Anand.
Following the resignation of Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia from the Delhi cabinet, his portfolios of Finance, Planning, Public Works Department (PWD), Power, Home, Urban Development, Irrigation and Flood Control and Water have been handed over to Kailash Gehlot. , while the rest of the department will be handled by Raj Kumar Anand.
Sisodia was holding the charge of 18 departments- Education, Finance, Planning, Land and Building, Vigilance, Services, Tourism, Art, Culture and Language, Labour, Employment, Public Works Department, Health, Industry, Power, Home. , Urban Development, Irrigation and Flood Control and Water.
Gehlot is the Minister for Law, Justice and Legislative Affairs, Transport, Administrative Reforms, Information and Technology, Revenue, Women and Child Development and Anand was handling the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Social Welfare and Cooperation departments.
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on Sunday evening in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-cancelled liquor policy for 2021-22. A special court in Delhi on Monday sent Sisodia to five-day CBI remand in the excise policy case to enable the agency to get “genuine and valid” answers to the questions being asked from him for “proper and impartial investigation”.
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