Cabinet reshuffle
PM Modi congratulates new ministers who took oath as part of major cabinet reshuffle
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated all new ministers who took oath on Wednesday as a part of cabinet expansion and reshuffle.
In his message, he wrote: "I congratulate all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wish them the very best for their ministerial tenure. We will continue working to fulfil aspirations of the people and build a strong and prosperous India. #Govt4Growth."
I congratulate all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wish them the very best for their ministerial tenure. We will continue working to fulfil aspirations of the people and build a strong and prosperous India. #Govt4Growth pic.twitter.com/AVz9vL77bO
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 7, 2021
In a major reshuffle of the PM Narendra Modi-led Cabinet, 43 new ministers took oath on Wednesday.
President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Several young leaders were added to the new team that will be led by Modi.
PM Modi now has 77 ministers, with nearly half of them new. Anurag Thakur and Hardeep Puri are among 15 new cabinet ministers.
Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narayan Rane, Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw were also sworn in as cabinet ministers.
Of the old portfolio holders, Harsh Vardhan was sacked as the health minister following the second wave of Covid which engulfed the nation, exposing its inadequate health infrastructure.
What came as a shock was the resignation of Ravi Shankar Prasad as Minister for Law and Electronics and IT, who has been seen to be in the core team of the government's troubleshooters.
Like Prasad, Prakash Javadekar also resigned, who was among the few who were ministers even in the previous BJP government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
This is PM Modi's first and major reshuffle of the Union Cabinet since he took office for a second term in 2019.
Here is a full list of ministers who took oath today:
CABINET MINISTERS:
1. Shri Narayan Tatu Rane
2. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
4. Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
8. Shri Kiren Rijiju
9. Shri Raj Kumar Singh
10. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri
11. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya
12. Shri Bhupender Yadav
13. Shri Parshottam Rupala
14. Shri G. Kishan Reddy
15. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
MINISTERS OF STATE:
1. Shri Pankaj Choudhary
2. Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel
3. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
4. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
5. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje
6. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
7. Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
8. Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi
9. Smt. Annpurna Devi
10. Shri A. Narayanaswamy
11. Shri Kaushal Kishore
12. Shri Ajay Bhatt
13. Shri B. L. Verma
14. Shri Ajay Kumar
15. Shri Chauhan Devusinh
16. Shri Bhagwanth Khuba
17. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil
18. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik
19. Dr. Subhas Sarkar
20. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
21. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
22. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
23. Shri Bishweswar Tudu
24. Shri Shantanu Thakur
25. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
26. Shri John Barla
27. Dr. L. Murugan
28. Shri Nisith Pramanik
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