NEW DELHI: Haryana minister Anil Vij on Thursday said he had offered to resign from the Cabinet after the urban local bodies department was reassigned to a newly inducted minister and was told that he may be divested of the home portfolio as well.
Vij on Thursday said that when the chief minister expressed his intent to divest him of the home portfolio and keep it for himself, “I said if he so wished, he could take all portfolios. I said that I was willing to give up all my portfolios, why just one or two.” After the reallocation, Vij, a BJP leader and six-time MLA, now holds home, health, Ayush, technical rducation, and science and technology portfolios.