Agencies
New Delhi, July 7: As many as 43 leaders took oath on Wednesday as ministers in the revamped Union Cabinet. This was the first cabinet reshuffle in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term.
Among the ministers who will be inducted into the Union cabinet include former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Tatu Rane, former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Lok Sabha MP Meenakshi Lekhi.
Nisith Pramanik (35) of Cooch Behar becomes the youngest member in Modi’s cabinet.
Some ministers of state, including G. Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur, were elevated. Union ministers R.K. Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya and Hardeep Singh Puri may also be promoted, sources said.
Other ministers who will be inducted into the Union cabinet include Virendra Kumar, Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Pashu Pati Kumar Paras, Kiren Rijiju, Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav, Parshottam Rupala, Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Singh Patel.
Ahead of the Union cabinet rejig, 12 members of the Council of Ministers including IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar, labour minister Santosh Gangwar, health minister Harsh Vardhan, education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and chemicals and fertilisers minister Sadananda Gowda, among others, resigned.
Ministers of state for environment Babul Supriyo, human resources development Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, women and child development Debasree Chaudhuri, jal shakti Ratan Lal Kataria, animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries Pratap Sarangi, and social justice and empowerment minister Thaawarchand Gehlot, have also quit. Thaawarchand Gehlot was earlier appointed as Karnataka governor. |
