Mann’s cabinet one wicket down, minister removed from Punjab Cabinet
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ July 3,2025
Punjab NRI Affairs minister Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal, MLA from Ajnala has tendered his resignation to CM Punjab Bhagwant Singh Mann as cabinet minister after today’s reshuffling.
Dhaliwal minister of NRI Affairs Department of Punjab informed the media that he has been asked to submit his resignation as cabinet minister and as a true party soldier, i immediately submitted my resignation.
Mann’s cabinet one wicket down, minister removed from Punjab Cabinet. With Dhaliwal’s resignation, the total number of ministers in Bhagwant Mann cabinet remains at 16. Two berths in the Cabinet continue to remain vacant.
He was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March 2022 at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.
He has been removed after the induction of newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora in Punjab Cabinet’s seventh expansion in AAP government’s tenure of over three and a half years in Punjab. Notably, Dhaliwal was absent from the swearing-in ceremony of Sanjeev Arora.
