Ahead of a cabinet reshuffle, many Union ministers, including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, resigned on Wednesday. This is the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.
According to sources, there are a total of 15 new Cabinet ministers in all with 8 promotions and 7 new faces.
Ahead of the Union Cabinet expansion on Wednesday evening, ministerial probables met the prime minister at his residence.
Those who met Modi included the BJP’s Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Shobha Karandlaje, Sunita Duggal, Meenakshi Lekhi, Bharati Pawar, Shantanu Thakur and Kapil Patil, the JD-U’s R C P Singh, the LJP’s Pashupati Paras and the Apna Dal’s Anupriya Patel. Some ministers of state, including G Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala and Anurag Thakur, were also there, and they may be elevated, the sources said.
Who Is In PM Modi’s Cabinet:
1. Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam
2. Kiren Rijiju, Arunachal Pradesh
3. Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Bihar
4. Pashupati Kumar Paras, Bihar
5. Raj Kumar Singh, Bihar
6. Meenakashi Lekhi, Delhi
7. Mansukh Mandaviya, Gujarat
8. Parshottam Rupala, Gujarat
9. Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Gujarat
10. Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai, Gujarat
11. Chauhan Devusinh, Gujarat
12. Anurag Singh Thakur, Himachal Pradesh
13. Annpurna Devi, Jharkhand
14. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Karnataka
15. Shobha Karandlaje, Karnataka
16. A Narayanaswamy, Karnataka
17. Bhagwanth Khuba, Karnataka
18. Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Madhya Pradesh
19. Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Madhya Pradesh
20. Dr Virendra Kumar, Madhya Pradesh
21. Narayan Tatu Rane, Maharashtra
22. Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Maharashtra
23. Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Maharashtra
24. Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Manipur
25. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Odisha
26. Bishweswar Tudu, Odisha
27. Hardeep Singh Puri, Punjab
28. Bhupender Yadav, Rajasthan
29. Dr L Murugan, Tamil Nadu
30. G Kishan Reddy, Telangana
31. Pratima Bhoumik, Tripura
32. Ajay Bhatt, Uttarakhand
33. Dr Satya Pal Singh Baghel, Uttar Pradesh
34. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Uttar Pradesh
35. B L Verma, Uttar Pradesh
36. Anupriya Singh Patel, Uttar Pradesh
37. Pankaj Choudhary, MP, Mahrajganj
38. Kaushal Kishore, MP, Lucknow’s Mohanlalganj
39. Ajay Kumar
40. Nisith Pramanik, North Bengal, Rajbanshi Community
41. Santanu Thakur, South Bengal, Matua Community
42. Subhas Sarkar, Central Bengal, Jungalmahal
43. John Barla, North Bengal, Tribal Community
Who’s Out:
1. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
2. Santosh Gangwar
3. Ravi Shankar Prasad
4. Sanjay Dhotre
5. Rao Saheb Dhanve Patil
6. Harsh Vardhan
7. Sadanand Gowda
8. Ashwini Chaube
9. Ratan Lal Kataria
10. Babul Supriyo
11. Pratap Chandra Sarangi
12. Debashree Chauduri
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