Newly inducted Haryana ministers assume charge

Newly inducted ministers in the Manohar Lal Khattar Cabinet assumed charge here on Friday, with senior minister Anil Vij warning government officials to perform or be prepared to take voluntary retirement from service.

Chief Minister Khattar was also present when the newly inducted ministers -- including Home Minister and Health Minister Anil Vij, Education Minister Kanwar Pal, Power Minister and Independent MLA Ranjit Singh Chautala, Women and Child Development Minister Kamlesh Dhanda, Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma and Sports Minister Sandeep Singh -- assumed charge at the Haryana Civil Secretariat building here
When reporters pointed out that he was in fact the grand uncle of Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, Ranjit replied: "In 1987 when Devi Lal was chief minister, I was in his cabinet. When father and son can be in the cabinet (together), why can't we both be in the same cabinet. He is doing his work and I am doing mine."