The newly appointed Chief Parliamentary Secretaries include Congress MLA from Jwali assembly Neeraj Bharti, Rajesh Dharmani (Ghumarwin) and Vinay Kumar (Sri Renukaji).
Earlier, Virbhadra took oath as Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister for a record sixth time, heading a ten-member ministry that included six of his loyalists.
Among the Cabinet ministers, who took oath, were senior Congress leaders Vidya Stokes, Kaul Singh Thakur and G S Bali, who are considered Singh's detractors, while Sujan Singh Pathania, Thakur Singh Bharmauri, Mukesh Agnihotri, Sudhir Sharma, Prakash Chowdhary and Dhani Ram Shandil are from the Chief Minister's camp.
