{"id":105967,"date":"2023-01-07T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/?p=105967"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T12:31:07","slug":"dr-balbir-singh-sworn-in-as-cabinet-minister-of-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/?p=105967","title":{"rendered":"DR. BALBIR SINGH SWORN IN AS CABINET MINISTER OF PUNJAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0CM CONGRATULATES THE NEW MINISTER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0EXPRESSES HOPE THAT HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL SCRIPT NEW SUCCESS STORY UNDER DR BALBIR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chandigarh,\u00a0 7\u00a0 January\u00a0 2023\u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>The Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Banwari Lal Purohit today administered the oath of office and secrecy to Dr. Balbir Singh as Cabinet Minister of the state in a brief but impressive ceremony here at Punjab Raj Bhawan in the presence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister\u2019s Office said that with this the total strength of the Cabinet had increased to 15 including the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105981 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d-1-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d-1-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/d-1.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the Additional Chief Secretary to CM A Venuprasad conducted the proceedings of the ceremony with the permission of the Governor. After being sworn in Dr. Balbir signed the oath, which was counter signed by the Governor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Chief Minister congratulated Dr Balbir for the new assignment and said that the new Minister has already been serving the masses with missionary zeal. He expressed hope that that the new minister will continue to serve the people with same passion and fervour. Bhagwant Mann said that the state government is already according top priority to the Health department adding that a hardcore professional like Dr Balbir will further take the department to zenith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0CM CONGRATULATES THE NEW MINISTER &#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0EXPRESSES HOPE THAT HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL SCRIPT NEW&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,43,388,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-english","category-political","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DR. 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