CHANDIGARH: A 20 member two tier Haryana council of ministers headed by Om Prakash Chautala was sworn in here.
The members of council including 11 cabinet ministers and nine ministers of state were administered the oath of office and secrecy at a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan Governor’s residence by state governor Hari Anand Barari.
Chautala was sworn in as Chief Minister on December 2 at Delhi.
Banarasi Das Gupta continues to be the deputy chief minister all the old members in the Devi Lal council of ministers barring those belonging to the bharatiya Janat Party which has decided to stay out of the ministry have been included in Chautala’s ministry.
There is one new minister with a cabinet rank Jagan Nath. Former chief parliamentary secretary Dhirpal Singh has been made a minister of state.
The Cabinet ministers are RanJit Singh brother of the chief minister, Virendar Singh, Sampat Singh, Hukam Singh, Rao Laxi Naryan, O.P. Bhardwaj, Rao Ram Narain, Subhash Katyal and Maha Singh.
The Ministers of state are Raghvbir Singh, Azmat Khan, Narsingh Dhanda, Manphool Singh, Hasan Mohammed Sachdev Tyagi, Dhir Pal Singh, Dharam Vir Singh and Balbir Singh Sani.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 15, 1989
