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A 15-member RajasA 15-member Rajasthan cabinet will take shape on Sunday with five loyalists of former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot being inducted in the new Council of Ministers.
The new cabinet will have ten new faces and also include two Pilot loyalists who had been sacked for being a part of the revolt against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot last year.
The Chief Minister's Office announced the names late Saturday and these included four Dalits.
This is for the first time that such a major representation is being given to the Scheduled Castes in the state government.
This is another massive Dalit reach out by the Congress after the party named Charanjit Singh Channi as the Punjab Chief Minister in September, replacing veteran Captain Amarinder Singh.
While Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena will make a comeback, the other faces in the new-look ministry include Hemaram Chaudhary, Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya, Ramlal Jat, Mahesh Joshi, Govindram Meghwal and Shakuntala Rawat.
Three of the junior ministers from the previous ministry -- Mamta Bhupesh Bairwa, Bhajanlal Jatav and Tikaram Juli - are being elevated to cabinet rank. The four new junior ministers are Zahida Khan, Rajendra Gudha, Brijendra Singh Ola and Murarilal Meena.
The new cabinet will have seven loyalists of Gehlot and five of Pilot.
Hemaram Chaudhary, Brijendra Singh Ola and Murarilal Meena are the new faces from the Pilot camp. Zahida Khan and Shakuntala Rawat, both Gehlot loyalists, are among three women in the new ministry along with Mamta Bhupesh.
Earlier on Saturday, all 20 ministers resigned, paving the way for the much-awaited cabinet reshuffle.
A meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has been called at the state party headquarters in Jaipur after which the swearing-in will take place at Raj Bhavan in the evening.
Gehlot had on Saturday met Governor Kalraj Mishra to inform him about the cabinet reshuffle.
The Congress also decided to go by the one-person-one-post formula and dropped those ministers who had recently been given organisational role at the national level.
Among them are Harish Choudhary, now party in-charge of Punjab, Raghu Sharma, in-charge of Gujarat, and Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dotasra.