In a surprise post-Covid turnaround, the ruling BJP sacked both Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and his deputy Ashwini Choubey along with ten other senior ministers and inducted into the Union Cabinet, largely along with OBCs/SCs. There were 43 young, professionally qualified members. /ST background. In the biggest reshuffle in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two terms, 15 new cabinet rank ministers and 28 ministers of state (MoS) were inducted.
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Woman power
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (CE NTRE) along with other ministers who were inducted into the Modi cabinet in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (CE NTRE) along with other ministers who were inducted into the Modi cabinet in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Seven women including Meenakshi Lekhi, Pratima Bhowmik, Bharti Praveen Pawar, Anupriya Patel, Shobha Karandlaje, Darshan Vikram Jardosh and Annapurna Devi took oath. Along with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, Ministers of State Niranjan Jyoti and Renuka Singh Sarota, the Union Cabinet now has 11 women.
In a tweet, Modi said, “I congratulate all the colleagues who took oath today and wish them all the best for their ministerial tenure. We continue to work towards fulfilling the aspirations of the people and building a strong and prosperous India.” Will keep. #Govt4Growth.”
resignation
In military precision, the swearing-in of the new members previously followed the resignations of senior ministers from several departments – Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad, and Prakash Javadekar – as well as Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Social Justice Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot. , who was appointed as the Governor of Karnataka on Tuesday, Labor Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister DV Sadananda Gowda and Ministers of State Babul Supriyo, Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao, Ratan Lal Kataria, Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Debashree Chowdhury.
‘Educated’ cabinet
This massive exercise combined the vocational and educational qualifications of the newly inducted with the political and social efficacy of the BJP. With the new entrants, the Union Cabinet now has seven PhDs, three MBAs, 13 lawyers, six doctors, five engineers, seven former civil servants and 68 graduates. For example, Jyotiraditya Scindia is an MBA from Stanford. But he was credited with inducting him as a cabinet minister to topple the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh with his loyalists in the BJP last year.
The “young” look of the cabinet with the promotion of former minister of state Anurag Thakur was complemented by the administrative experience and stature of former IFS officer Hardeep Singh Puri, who was also promoted to cabinet rank.
The inclusion of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane is entirely due to his insider knowledge of Shiv Sena as he was a soldier with Bal Thackeray, before he left the party to join Congress, then formed his own party and finally I joined BJP. Rane is the only Maratha to join Maharashtra, who hails from the OBC and ST communities. Rane was influenced by another aspirant, Devendra Fadnavis. After taking oath, he said, “I give credit for my appointment to Devendra Fadnavis.”
Other entrants from Maharashtra include Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad from Aurangabad, an RSS doctor who belongs to an OBC community; Kapil Patil from Bhiwandi-Thane region, another OBC representative in the cabinet; and Bharti Praveen Pawar from Dhindori, Jalgaon, who is a doctor and belongs to an ST community.
Vidhansabha election watch
Preparations for the next year’s assembly elections, especially in politically important Uttar Pradesh, were visible in the participation of seven ministers from the Hindi-speaking state. Three of the newcomers – Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Patel and BL Verma – are OBCs; and three, including Bhanu Pratap Verma, SPS Bhagel and Kaushal Kishore, SC. The only brahmin to pacify this community is Ajay Mishra, who constitutes an impressive 13 percent of Uttar Pradesh’s population. The BJP combines its upper caste vote base with a strong outreach to OBCs, who traditionally voted for the Samajwadi Party, and Dalits, who leaned towards Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party.
A similar focus was seen in West Bengal, where the BJP continued its social engineering by including Bangaon MP Shantanu Thakur, who represents the powerful Matua community. namashudras. Nisith Pramanik, belonging to the Scheduled Caste community, was also sworn in as a Minister of State for the same reason.
new portfolio
Amit Shah will hold the additional charge of the newly formed cooperative ministry. Many ministries are to be merged to avoid the lack of coordination and overlap.
Going forward, 53 such ministries are to be managed by 30 ministers.
Dharmendra Pradhan will be the new Education and Skill Development Minister; Ashwini Vaishnav to be Railway Minister; Hardeep Puri will be the Petroleum Minister and will continue to hold the charge of the Urban Development Ministry. Jyotiraditya Scindia gets civil aviation; Piyush Goyal will be Textiles and Consumer Affairs; Parshottam Rapala to get Dairy and Fisheries Ministry; And Anurag Thakur will be the new Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Youth and Sports Affairs.
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