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In a major Cabinet reshuffle, Smriti Irani dropped as HRD minister
New Delhi, July 5 (IBNS): In a major Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre, the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday removed Smriti Irani as the Human Resource Development Minister and instead appointed Prakash Javadekar to hold the portfolio.
Prakash Javadekar was elevated to cabinet rank on Tuesday morning.
Irani has been assigned the portfolio of the Textile Ministry, which is considered as a less important one.
In another major change, Venkaiah Naidu will now be Minister for Information and Broadcasting, a portfolio held by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as an additional charge.
Sadananda Gowda has lost the Law Ministry which will be now headed by Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is also the Telecom Minister.
Naidu has been released of the Parliamentary Affairs portfolio, which will now be held by Ananth Kumar.
However, Naidu will retain the Urban Development Ministry.
Barely hours after the new ministers were sworn-in, they have their job cut out as PM Modi urged them to work positively for transforming India.
"Congrats to newly sworn-in colleagues. Let's work together to bring a positive difference & for #TransformingIndia," the PM tweeted greeting his new colleagues.
As many as 19 new faces were inducted on Tuesday.
The reshuffle came four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took stock of the work done by his ministers in two years.
The new cabinet boasts of a journalist/editor in MJ Akbar, an advocate in PP Chaudhary, a former bureaucrat in Arjun Ram Meghwal, a surgeon in Subhash Bhamre and a writer and a conversationalist in Anil Madhav Dave. They all belong to the BJP.
The new list also consists of people from SC and ST background and have been chosen from states which will go into polls in the immediate future.
While Jaswantsinh Bhabhor and Faggan Singh Kulaste belong to Scheduled Tribe, Ajay Tamta, Ramdas Athalwale, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Ramesh Jigajinagi and Krishna Raj represent the Scheduled Caste community.
The cabinet also boasts of two newly elected female members, Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal (BJP's ally in UP) and Krishna Raj.
List of new ministers:
Ajay Tamta, Anil Madhav Dave, Anupriya Patel, CR Chaudhary, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Subhash Bhamre, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Jasvantsinh Bhabhor, Krishna Raj, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Mansukh L Mandaviya, MJ Akbar, PP Chaudhary, Purshottam Rupala, Rajen Gohain, SS Ahluwalia, Ramesh Jigajinagi, Ramdas Athawale and Vijay Goel.
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#Prakash Javadekar
#Arun Jaitley
#Venkaiah Naidu
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