As many as 43 leaders will take oath as ministers in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Union Cabinet on July 7. This includes 36 new faces and seven ministers of state who will be elevated.
This is first cabinet reshuffle since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retained power in 2019.
The new faces likely to make it to the Cabinet, include Jyotiraditya Scindia, who left the Congress for the BJP last year ahead of regime change in Madhya Pradesh, and Sarbananda Sonowal, who was replaced by Himanta Biswa Sarma as Assam Chief Minister after the BJP won a second term in the northeastern state in May.
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP)'s Pashupati Paras, former Maharashtra CM Narayan Rane, Apna Dal's Anupriya Patel and New Delhi MP, Meenakshi Lekhi have also made it to the list.
The Union Cabinet can have 81 members, as per the rule. There were 53 ministers in the PM Modi's cabinet but a series of them, including Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, resigned hours before the names were announced.
Among other new names in the list of 43 ministers include, BJP general secretary Bhpender Yadav, BJP leader Rajeev Chandrashekhar, BJP MP from Odisha Ashwini Vaishnaw, Uttarakhand MP AJay Bhatt, to name a few.
For quite some time now, speculation about a possible union cabinet reshuffle were rife. Prime Minister held several rounds of discussion with senior party leaders including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Party Chief Nadda and general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh in the last few days. PM Modi has personally reviewed the performance of existing ministers.
Among the ministers of state to be elevated include Kiren Rijiju, RK Singh, Hardeep Puri, Anurag Thakur, Purshottam Rupala, Mansukh Mandaviya and G Kishan Reddy.
The reshuffle comes days ahead of Monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 19.
On July 7, Union minister Thaawarchand Gehlot was appointed as Governor of Karnataka as President Ram Nath Kovind also announced reshuffle and appointment of seven other Governors.
The present Modi government took oath on May 30, 2019. It had 57 ministers (24 Cabinet Ministers, 9 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 24 Ministers of State), 12 more than the first government.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 303 seats and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 353 seats in 2019 general elections.
Here is the complete lost of 43 leaders who will take oath today :
- Narayan Tatu Rane
- Sarbananda Sonowal
- Dr. 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
- G Kishan Reddy
- Anurag Singh Thakur
- Pankaj Choudhary
- Anupriya Singh Patel
- Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
- Rajeev Chandrasekhar
- Shobha Karandlaj
- Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
- Darshana Vikram Jardosh
- Meenakashi Lekhi
- Annpurna Devi
- A. Narayanaswamy
- Kaushal Kishore
- Ajay Bhatt
- BL Verma
- Ajay Kumar
- Chauhan Devusinh
- Bhagwanth Khuba
- Kapil Moreshwar Patil
- Pratima Bhoumik
- Subhas Sarkar
- Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
- Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
- Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
- Bishweswar Tudu
- Shantanu Thakur
- Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
- John Barla
- Dr. L. Murugan
- Nisith PramanikFollow LIVE updates of the Cabinet reshuffle here
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