Cabinet Expansion HGHLIGHTS: Aswhini Vaishnav Gets Railways, Anurag Thakur I&B, Dharmendra Pradhan Education
PM Modi Cabinet Expansion HIGHLIGHTS: Modi government 2.0 has inducted as many as 43 new faces in his Union Cabinet today. The oath-taking ceremony took place at around 6 PM in Delhi Darbar Hall.
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PM Modi Cabinet Expansion HIGHLIGHTS: A major reshuffle of the Union council of ministers is on the card. After days of speculations, it is being confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra...More
Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal gets Ayush Ministry. Meanwhile, former Indian bureaucrat and BJP MP from Lok Sabha RK Singh gets Law Ministry.
Piyush Goyal will handle the Ministry of Textiles in addition to the Ministries of Commerce and Industry. This will again bring in synergies between ministries that are export-oriented, deal with trade policy and are among the biggest employment generating ministries.
He also has Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Aswhini Vaishnav brings with him rich administrative experience that will come handy as he is assigned the important portfolio of the Ministry of IT and Communications. He also got the Railways.
Railways is another priority sector for PM Modi.
Railways and IT are being clubbed to ensure effective Tech usage in railways for passenger safety and convenience.
Piyush Goyal to keep Ministry of Commerce, in addition to Ministry of Textile and Ministry of Consumer Welfare.
LJP Leader and Chirag Paswan's uncle Pashupati Paras gets the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. Anurag Thakur to become I&B Minister and has been handed over additional charge of Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs.
Meenakshi Lekhi named MoS External Affairs Ministry.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, longtime Congress leader-turned-BJP-man has been awarded Civil Aviation Ministry. Meanwhile, Smriti Irani to be Woman and Child Development Minister and will also look after Swacch Bharat Mission.
Ministry of Health, & Chemicals and Fertilizers have now been clubbed. Hardeep Puri gets Urban development. Housing Ministry has been clubbed with Petroleum.
Mansukh Mandiya has been appointed as the new Health Minister, replacing Dr Harsh Vardhan who stepped down from the post earlier in the day. Mandaviya to head the clubbed Ministry of Health, & Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Meanwhile, Dharmendra Pradhan is the new Education Minister of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to monitor the Ministry of Science & Technology, Amit Shah to monitor the Ministry of Cooperation, in addition to the Home Ministry.
Meetings of Cabinet and Council of Ministers (CoM) to be held tomorrow- July 8, at 5 pm and 7 pm respectively: Sources
7 Female leaders in PM Modi's new cabinet:
Anupriya Singh Patel - a Lok Sabha MP from Mirzapur.
Sushri Shobha Karandlaje - represents Udupi, Karnataka.
Darshana Vikram Jardosh - 3-time MP from Surat.
Meenakshi Lekhi - BJP leader from Delhi and a Supreme Court lawyer.
Annpurna Devi - Lok Sabha MP for Kodarma in Jharkhand.
Pratima Bhoumik- Lok Sabha MP from Tripura West.
Bharati Pravin Pawar - Lok Sabha MP for Dindori in Maharashtra.
Junior Ministers (MoS) Inducted Into Union Cabinet
Rajeev Chandrashekhar
Shobha Karandlaje
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Darshana Jardosh
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Bharati Pawar
Pankaj Choudhary
Anupriya Patel
Dr SP Singh Baghel
Ajay Kumar
Devusinh Chauhan
Bhagwanth Khuba
Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Pratima Bhoumik
Subhas Sarkar
Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
Meenakshi Lekhi
Annpurna Devi
A Narayanaswamy
Kaushal Kishore
Ajay Bhatt
BL Verma
LJP leader and Chirag Paswan's uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, lawyer and politician from Arunachal Pradesh Kiren Rijiju and former Indian bureaucrat and a current Minister of State Raj Kumar Singh take oath as ministers in the new cabinet. Even, Rajya Sabha MP and Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs of India Hardeep Singh Puri also took oath.
Supporters of BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia celebrate his inclusion in the new Union Cabinet, outside the BJP office in Bhopal. "There is enthusiasm among MP youth. We are celebrating, distributing sweets as Modiji has given an opportunity to youth leadership," said a supporter.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jyotiraditya Scindia takes oath as Union Minister in PM Modi's new cabinet at Delhi's Darbar Hall.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Tatu Rane and former Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal take oath as new Union Ministers in Modi's new Union Cabinet as the swearing-in ceremony begins in Delhi's Darbar Hall.
In a latest development, Union Minister for Law and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad has resigned from the Council of Ministers.
Even Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Environment and Information and Broadcasting, has also tendered his resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind.
The Congress has called the cabinet reshuffle meaningless as it alleged that the BJP has failed to govern the country properly and it requires vision reshuffle.
In a statement, Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said, "Cabinet Reshuffle is meaningless because BJP Govt is completely 'Asafal', when it comes to economy, employment, health infra, national security. BJP Govt requires reset of vision, governance rather than reshuffle of portfolios!!."
1. Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi
2. Smt. Annapurna Devi
3. Shri. A. Narayanaswamy
4. Shri. Kaushal Kishore
5. Shri. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
6. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje
7. Shri. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
8. Smt. Darshna Vikram Jardosh
9. Shri. Ajay Bhat
10. Shri. Narayan Tam Rane
11. Shri.Sarbananda Sonowal
12. Dr. Virendra Kumar
13. Shri. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
14. Shri. Ramachandra Prasad Singh
15. Shri. Ashwini Vaishnav
16. Shri. Pashupati Kumar Paras
17. Kiren Rijiju
18. Raj Kumar Singh
19. Mansukh Mandaviya
20. Bhupendra Yadav
21. Parshottam Rupala
22. G. Kishan Reddy
23. Anurag Singh Tahkur
24. Pankaj Choudhary
25. Anupriya Singh Patel
26. B.K. Verma
27. Ajay Kumar
28. Chauhan Devisinh
29. Bhagwanth Khuba
30. Kapil Moreshwar Patil
31. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik
32. Dr. Subhas Sarkar
33. Dr. Bhahwat Kishanrao Karad
34. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
35. Bharati Pravin Pawar
36. Bishwewar Tudu
37. Shantanu Thakur
38. Dr.Munjapara Mahendrabhai
39. John Barla
40. Dr. L. Murugan
41. Nitish Pramanik
42. S. P. Singh Baghel
43. Shri Nisith Pramanik
Referring to the proposed Union Cabinet reshuffle, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, during a press meet here, said the removal of Babul Supriyo from the council of ministers shows that "they (BJP government) have also lost it even before the arrival of their end" in 2024.
Asked about the possibility of BJP MP John Barla's induction in the Union ministry, weeks after he demanded a separate union territory for North Bengal, Banerjee said it will reflect the "divisive mindset" of the saffron party.
Senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha MP from Mayurbhanj in Odisha, Bishweswar Tudu has been asked to remain present at Rashtrapati Bhavan this evening.
"After receiving a call, I went to the PM's residence, where over 40 senior leaders from BJP and its supportive parties were present. From Odisha, myself and Rajya Sabha MP Ashwini Vaishnaw were present," Tudu told IANS over the phone.
43 leaders to take oath today in the Union Cabinet expansion. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Bhupender Yadav, Anupriya Patel, Shobha Karandlaje, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt and Anurag Thakur to also take the oath.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is expected to bring in young faces and give representation to various social groups and regions in the reshuffle. Ahead of the Union Cabinet expansion on Wednesday evening, ministerial probables met the prime minister at his residence.
Union Minister Babul Supriyo has issued his resignation from the Cabinet.
According to sources, Pratap Sarangi, Ratan Lal Kataria have submitetd resignation hours ahead of union cabinet expansion.
According to sources, there will be 12 scheduled caste ministers in the Modi cabinet, out of which 8 will be cabinet ministers and will be from 8 states of the country; 8 will be scheduled tribe ministers, Of these 3 will be cabinet ministers; 27 ministers from backward classes will be in Modi cabinet, out of which 5 will be cabinet ministers.
5 will be minority ministers -
1 Muslim
1 Sikh
1 Buddha
1 Christian
1 Jain
29 different castes have been given place in Modi cabinet
BJP MP saumitra khan resigns from the post of Yuva morcha president chief. He resigns in dissent of not being upgraded to a ministerial berth. He has more than 35 criminal cases against him and party had performed decently well in his parliamentary constituency.
Interestingly he is also the husband of Sujata Mandal who won on a TMC ticket from Arambagh after parting ways with party and husband.
Hours ahead of Unoin Cabinet Expansion, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' and MoS Woman & Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri have resigned from their respective posts citing health issues.
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Santosh Gangwar have reportedly given health reasons in their resignation letters. If sources are to be belived, there are speculations that a few more ministers are on their way out.
Sources have informed that Jyotiraditya Scindia could in inducted in the Union Cabinet and appointed as HRD minister as Pokhriyal quits.
Governor-designate of Karnataka, Thawarchand Gehlot, submitted his resignation from the membership of Rajya Sabha, to Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. The Chairman accepted his resignation.
Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda, Meenakshi Lekhi, Sarbananda Sonowal, Purshottam Rupala, Nisith Pramanik, RCP Singh, Pashupati Paras, present at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, ahead of Union Cabinet reshuffle
Those to be inducted in council of ministers have started reaching PM Modi's residence. Scindia, Sonowal, Pashupati Paras, Preetam Munde, Heena Gavit, Bhupendra Yadav, Meenakshi Lekhi among others have reached the Prime Minister's residence. Union Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister Anurag Thakur are also present at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, ahead of Union Cabinet reshuffling.
Leaders from minority communities will also find greater representation after rejig. It is learned that one member each from Christian, Muslim, and Sikh communities and two Buddhists to be included.
It is being said that there will be a substantial increase in the number of professionals in the cabinet. News agency ANI reported that post expansion there will be 13 lawyers, six doctors, five engineers, and seven civil servants in total.
A major reshuffle of the Union council of ministers in on the cards. After days of speculations, it is being confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet will be expanded today evening.
As many as 43 new members are all set to be sworn in this evening in Prime Minister Modi's new cabinet which will be one of the most inclusive with record representation of SC, ST members.