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.

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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.