Delhi Government Reshuffle: Delhi Minister And AAP Leader Atishi Gets Additional Portfolios

Digital Desk: Delhi Minister and AAP leader Atishi has been given additional portfolios in the Finance, Revenue, and Planning departments, after Lt Governor VK Saxena's approval.

Earlier, Minister Kailash Gahlot was in charge of all three departments.

This comes after LG V K Saxena approved a cabinet reshuffle request from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

After the resignations of Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj were both appointed to the cabinet in March. Earlier, she held the portfolios of power, education, art, culture, and language, tourism, higher education, training and technical education, and public relations.

Kailash Gahlot was assigned the portfolios of planning and finance after the resignation of Manish Sisodia, who was arrested in connection with the excise policy case and is presently being held in Tihar.