Neither CM Rekha Gupta Nor Parvesh Verma, Who is Delhi Home Minister

New Delhi: Newly elected Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, hours after taking oath, announced portfolios to her six Cabinet ministers including Parvesh Sahib Singh (Parvesh Verma), Ashish Sood, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ravindra Singh, Kapil Mishra and Pankaj Kumar Singh.

The Chief Minister herself kept General Administration, Services, Finance, Revenue, Women and Child Development, Land and Building, Information and Public Relations, Vigilance, Administrative Reforms, Planning and other departments that have not been allocated to other ministers.

Rekha Gupta’s Cabinet colleague Parvesh Verma has been allotted Public Works Department, Legislative Affairs, Irrigation and Flood Control, Water and Gurudwara Elections.

Interestingly, neither CM Rekha Gupta nor Parvesh Verma, who defeated Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi seat, was allotted the Home Affairs. Usually, a Chief Minister of a state generally keeps the Home portfolio with themselves but it wasn't the case in Delhi this time.

The Home portfolio has been allotted to Ashish Sood who will also be responsible for Power, Urban Development, Education, Higher Education and Training and Technical Education. Ashish Sood contested Delhi election from Janakpuri Assembly seat and defeated AAP's Parveen Kumar by a margin of over 18,000 votes. 

Who is Ashish Sood, BJP 's Janakpuri MLA?

• Ashish Sood was one of the man contenders of the Chief Minister’s post has been made the Home  Minister in the Delhi government.
• An RSS man, Ashish Sood has been associated with the BJP for several years. He’s someone who knows Delhi and worked on ground.
• Ashish Sood has been a councillor, Leader of House in South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
• Sood had served as Bharatiya Janata Yua Morcha (BJYM) and later became its national vice president.
• In 2008, he worked as secretary of Delhi BJP and later its General Secretary.
• Previously, BJP had also made him party’s in-charge for Goa and Jammu & Kashmir. 

Besides this, Sardar Manjinder Singh Sirsa has got Industries, Food and Supplies, and Environment, Forest and Wildlife.

Ravinder Singh has been made Delhi’s Social Welfare, Welfare for SC, ST, Cooperative and Election minister.

Firebrand Hindu leader and now minister in BJP's Delhi government Kapil Mishra has been made Law & Justice, Labour, Employment, Art, Culture, Language and Tourism minister.

Dr Pankaj Kumar Singh has been allotted Health & Family Welfare, Transport and Information and Technology Minister.