Home Minister Amit Shah has allocated work to his two deputies G Kishan Reddy and Nityanand Rai — that include affairs of Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast and Centre-state relations, officials said.
While Reddy has been given divisions like Jammu and Kashmir,the Northeast, Union Territories, cyber security and counter-radicalisation,Rai has been allocated Centre-state division, Police-I (that looks aftertransfer postings of IPS officers), foreigners divisions and others.
Besides the Intelligence Bureau, Shah will take care of alldecisions involving Cabinet matters and President’s house.
Shah will also be the final authority to take any decisionsin subjects allocated to the two ministers of state in his ministry, a homeministry official said.
This is the first time that both the Northeast and Jammu andKashmir divisions have been allocated to the same minister of state.
In the previous NDA government, junior minister Kiren Rijijuwas in-charge of the Northeast division and his colleague Hansraj G Ahir waslooking after counter-radicalisation and Kashmir affairs.
Rijiju is now in charge of the youth affairs and sportsministry, while Ahir had lost his election.
According to the work allocation, Reddy will handle theissues related to freedom fighters, internal security, counter terrorism andcounter radicalisation, Left wing extremism, Jammu and Kashmir, Northeast,police modernisation, cyber security, union territories, women safety andjudicial.
Rai will handle affairs related to official language,administration, border management, Centre-state relations, internationalcooperation disaster management, foreigners and police.