New Delhi, Nov 18 (UNI) Raghvendra Shaukeen, a two-time councilor and currently serving as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Nangloi Jat for the second term, will join Delhi Chief Minister Atishi’s cabinet as a new minister, senior party leader Manish Sisodia announced on Monday.
This decision came following the resignation of senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot from his position as Cabinet minister and party member.
Addressing a joint press conference along with Shaukeen at the party headquarters, Sisodia said,”Arvind Kejriwal has decided that Raghvendra Shaukeen will be a minister in Chief Minister Atishi’s cabinet.
We all know that Shaukeen is a popular leader of the Jat community and has done extensive work in the field of education. As it is often said about AAP, it is a party of educated individuals. Arvind Kejriwal himself is highly educated, and so is his team,” Sisodia said.
“Raghvendra Shaukeen, a civil engineer, has been MLA from Nangloi Jat twice and was a councilor twice before that. He has contributed to various sectors in the Delhi government and has been active in rural politics,” he added.
Sisodia expressed confidence that Shaukeen would serve the people of Delhi effectively and carry out his responsibilities with dedication.
“I am confident he will serve the people of Delhi well and will emerge as the voice of the rural regions he represents,” he said.
Expressing his gratitude, AAP leader Raghvendra Shaukeen thanked Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and the party’s leadership for giving him this opportunity.
“The Aam Aadmi Party has always worked inclusively, while the BJP has consistently worked against the Jat community, be it during the farmers’ protest, the wrestlers’ issues, or Haryana elections,” he said.
“The BJP divided the Jat community through their ‘Jat vs. others’ narrative to win elections in Haryana. Since communal Hindu-Muslim divisions don’t work there, they created Jat-non-Jat divisions to polarize the state,” Raghvendra alleged.
