Punjab cabinet minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal has been left with only the NRI affairs portfolio as the state government scrapped the administrative reforms department. This change comes after his previous key portfolios of agriculture and rural development were reassigned during a cabinet reshuffle.
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