Rekha Gupta Retains Finance, Water Goes to Parvesh Verma: Full List of Delhi Ministers’ Portfolios

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta to handle 10 portfolios, while key departments like Water and Law go to Parvesh Verma and Kapil Mishra.

February 21, 2025: The newly sworn-in Delhi government, led by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, has announced its cabinet portfolio allocations following a high-level meeting. Gupta and her six cabinet colleagues will oversee critical departments, with the Finance Ministry staying under her leadership and Water and Irrigation going to Parvesh Verma.

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🔹 Key Portfolio Allocations:

📌 Rekha Gupta (Chief Minister)

✅ Finance (Most significant portfolio)
✅ Revenue
✅ General Administration
✅ Information & Public Relations
✅ Vigilance
✅ Land & Building
✅ Women & Child Development
✅ Any additional portfolios not yet assigned

📌 Parvesh Verma (Son of former CM Saheb Singh Verma)

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✅ Water (Critical due to Delhi’s ongoing water crisis)
✅ Irrigation & Flood Control (Oversees Yamuna clean-up efforts)

📌 Ashish Sood (Handles key AAP-era departments)

✅ Home (Initially expected for CM Gupta)
✅ Education (AAP’s flagship department, now under BJP leadership)
✅ Power (Oversight of AAP’s power subsidies & policy changes)
✅ *Total: 7 portfolios

📌 Manjinder Singh Sirsa (BJP’s Sikh face in Delhi)

✅ Food & Supplies
✅ Forest & Environment
✅ Industries (Expected to work on reducing Yamuna pollution)

📌 Kapil Mishra (Former AAP leader, now in BJP cabinet)

✅ Law & Justice
✅ Labour
✅ Art & Culture
✅ Language & Tourism

📌 Ravinder Singh

✅ Social Welfare
✅ SC & ST Welfare
✅ Cooperative
✅ Elections

🔍 Key Takeaways:

CM Rekha Gupta will manage 10 portfolios, including Finance, making her the busiest minister in the cabinet.
Parvesh Verma gets the Water and Irrigation department, crucial for Delhi’s water management and Yamuna clean-up.
Education & Power, previously AAP’s strongest sectors, are now under Ashish Sood.
Kapil Mishra, once an AAP minister, now leads Law & Labour, signaling a BJP shift in governance approach.