India, July 3 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann has expanded his cabinet with the induction of newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora as a minister.

Governor Gulab Chand Kataria administered the oath of office and secrecy to the first-time MLA in a simple ceremony at the Punjab Raj Bhawan in Chandigarh. Arora took the oath in Punjabi.

This marks the seventh reshuffle of the Bhagwant Mann cabinet in just over three years.

The swearing-in took place in the presence of the chief minister, several cabinet ministers, MLAs, government officers and Aam Aadmi Party leaders.

Arora, a businessman-turned-politician, who was a Rajya Sabha member for three years, has been sworn-in as a cabinet minister.

Arora is learnt to have been allocated...