New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday appointed Aam Aadi Party (AAP) leaders Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj as the Delhi cabinet ministers on recommendation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The two leaders has been appointed with effect from the date they are sworn in, stated Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Delhi CM had suggested the names of AAP's key leaders to the Lt Governor asking the latter to include the two in the cabinet. However, the development came after party's two prominent leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain resigned from their post recently.
As per the Ministry of Home Affairs' notification, the President has accepted the resignations of Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain with immediate effect.
"The President is pleased to accept, on the advice of the Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the resignation of Manish Sisodia, a Minister in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, with immediate effect," said the notification published on Tuesday.
The Delhi council of ministers now has a strength of five, including CM Arvind Kejriwal, who doesn't hold any portfolios.
Sisodia had resigned from his all 18 posts following his arrest in the alleged excise policy scam.
After former Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain's arrest last year, seven portfolios handled by him were shifted to Sisodia, who was looking after 18 departments when he was arrested on Sunday.
He is now lodged in Tihar's jail after Rouse Avenue Court on Monday sent him to judicial custody till March 20.
(With inputs from ANI)