"It is nearly a month since Harish Rawat was sworn in as the new CM. Still the ministers are without portfolios. If someone approaches them with a complaint their standard excuse is they cannot do anything as they don't have a portfolio," Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ajay Bhatt said.
Noting that non allocation of portfolios has a paralysing effect on development work in the state, he said the "one-man show" of Harish Rawat with all the portfolios under his charge did not bode well for a flood-hit state like Uttarakhand where so much needs to be done to put life back on track.
He said the delay may have been caused by the "CM's dilemma with ministers vying with each other for the plum posts."
"The new CM seems to be in a fix, unable to decide which department should be given to whom," he said.
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