Dimapur, March 12 (EMN): Five days after taking oath of office, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Monday assigned portfolios to his council of ministers with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) collecting almost all the ‘plump’ ones.
BJP legislator and Deputy Chief Minister Y Patton emerged the biggest winner with the additional charge for Home and National Highways. The other two highly-sought-after portfolios of Health and Family Welfare (HFW) and Public Health Engineering (PHE) also went to BJP representatives.
S Pangnyu Phom got HFW while the PHE went to Jacob Zhimomi. The lone independent legislator Tongpang Ozukum bagged the Public Works Department while agriculture went to G Kaito Aye.
As has been the trend for the past many tenures, the Finance portfolio went to the chief minister himself.
Details of council of ministers and their assigned portfolios:
