Cabinet Expansion: 15 including Scindia take oath as ministers; 28 ministers of state included. highlighted

New Delhi: Former Congress veteran Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is now with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Pashupati Nath Paras, besides several former chief ministers took oath as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ministers on Wednesday. Lee- led the cabinet.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to 43 members of the Council of Ministers at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan this evening.

A total of 15 leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pashupati Nath Paras, Kiren Rijiju and Hardeep Singh Puri took oath as cabinet ministers while 28 others including Meenakshi Lekhi, Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Patel and Shobha Karandlaje were inducted. state Minister.

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List of people inducted as cabinet ministers:

  • Narayan Tatu Rane
  • Sarbananda Sonowal
  • Dr. Virendra Kumar
  • Jyotiraditya M Scindia
  • Ramchandra Prasad Singh
  • Ashwini Vaishnav
  • Pashupati Kumar Paras
  • Kiren Rijiju
  • Raj Kumar Singh
  • Hardeep Singh Puri
  • Mansukh Mandaviya
  • Bhupender Yadav
  • Purushottam Rupala
  • Kishan Reddy
  • Anurag Singh Thakur

List of those who joined as Minister of State (MoS):

  • Pankaj Choudhary
  • Anupriya Singh Patel
  • Dr Satya Pal Singh Baghel
  • Rajeev Chandrashekhar
  • Shobha Karandlaje
  • Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
  • Darshan Vikram Zardoshi
  • Meenakshi Lekhi
  • Annapurna Devi
  • Narayanaswamy
  • Kaushal Kishore
  • Ajay Bhatt
  • Verma
  • Ajay Kumar
  • Chauhan Devusinh
  • Bhagwant Khuba
  • Kapil Moreshwar Patil
  • Pratima Bhumiki
  • Dr Subhas Sarkar
  • Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karadi
  • Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
  • Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
  • Bishweshwar Tudu
  • Shantanu Thakur
  • Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai
  • John Barla
  • Dr. L. murugani
  • Nisith Pramanik

7 women leaders included in Modi cabinet:

This time Prime Minister Modi has included seven women ministers from nine states in his cabinet.

Here is the list of women ministers to be included in Prime Minister Modi’s new team:

  • Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
  • Annapurna Devi
  • Shobha Karandlaje
  • Pratima Bhaumik
  • Meenakshi Lekhi
  • Darshan Jardosho
  • Anupriya Singh Patel

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12 ministers sacked from Modi cabinet:

Ahead of the cabinet reshuffle, 12 ministers, including Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar, submitted their resignations to President Kovind.

Given below is the list of ministers who have resigned from the Union Cabinet:

  • Sadananda Gowda
  • Ravi Shankar Prasad
  • Thawar Chand Gehlot
  • Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
  • Harsh Vardhan
  • Prakash Javadekar
  • Santosh Kumar Gangwar
  • Babul Supriyo
  • Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
  • Rattan Lal Kataria
  • Pratap Chandra Sarangi
  • Debashree Choudhary

The cabinet expansion this evening was the first in Prime Minister Modi’s second term after returning to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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