Bansidhar Bhagat, Chuphal, Yatishwaranand n Ganesh Joshi sworn in for the first time, rest previous ministers repeated, only one women in the cabinet

The oath taking of the new ministers after Tirath Singh Rawat assuming office as the tenth chief minister of Uttarakhand is going on at Dehradun Raj Bhawan with the governor Baby Rani Maurya giving the oath of office to the new cabinet and state ministers of Uttarakhand. Mr. Satpal Maharaj, Subodh Uniyal, Dr. Harak Singh Rawat, Yashpal Arya, Arvind Pandey, Bansidhar Bhagat, Vidhan Singh Chuphal and Ganesh Joshi have been sworn in as the cabinet ministers whereas Yatishwaranand, Rekha Arya, Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat have taken the oath as minister of state. The former state president of Bhartiya Janata Party has been rewarded for giving up his state chief post in which the outgoing cabinet minister Madan Kaushik has been appointed as Uttarakhand BJP chief. The new cabinet ministers are Vidhan Singh Chuphal, Ganesh Joshi of Mussourie and Bansidhar Bhagat whereas the previous cabinet ministers have been repeated this time as well. Saint Yatishwaranand has been  appointed as state minister for the first time while Rekha Arya and Dr.  Dhan Singh Rawat have been repeated. The name of Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat, Srinagar MLA was also in the race. In all eleven MLAs have taken the oath as ministers in the new cabinet of TSR. From Pauri three ministers have been inducted, two from Udham Singh Nagar n Dehradoon, one each from Haridwar, Tehri, Pithoragarh and Almora. Seven ministers Vabinet n state, have been repeated while there have been four new inductions. Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudrapraag, Bageshwar and Champawat distrists have not been represented. The party professing of women empowerment and reservation in parliament n assemblies have given representation to merely one woman Rekha Arya says Dr. Nautiyal in his tweet.