When reporters asked Stalin on reshuffle and 'Dy CM post for Udhayanidhi' being spoken for quite some time, he answered in a few words. He said: "There will be no disappointment; there will be change."
The Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government on Monday inducted five MLAs as ministers as it carried out a Cabinet rejig.Governor Gulab Chand Kataria.
Currently, the strength of the Mann-led cabinet is 15, including the chief minister. There can be a maximum of 18 ministers in the Cabinet.
After the appointment of a new Cabinet Secretary, the post of Finance Secretary will fall vacant. A new official will be required to oversee the Finance Ministry.
This comes amid a heightened buzz about a likely Cabinet reshuffle following a series of meetings of the ruling BJP's top brass.
Defence is in the spotlight with tension surging between self-ruled Taiwan and mainland China in recent days.
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo could carry out his fifth cabinet reshuffle just one year into his presidency later on Friday.
The new ministers will take the oath of office at 11.45 am at a function to be held at the Convention Centre on the premises of the Lok Seva Bhavan on Sunday, a highly placed source in the Raj Bhavan told PTI.
From the old cabinet — Pratap Singh Khachariyawas was allocated food and civil supplies, Shanti Dhariwal retained UDH and parliamentary affairs, Lal Chand Kataria retained agriculture and Pramod Jain Bhaya retained mines and petroleum.
The six MLAs are Jitendra Singh, Babulal Nagar, Rajkumar Sharma, Sanyam Lodha, Ramkesh Meena, and Danish Abrar.
Ravi Shankar Prasad’s replacement might well keep a lower profile, but tighten the screws further without creating quite as many controversies
In the recent Cabinet reshuffle on July 8, Ashwini Vaishnaw, a Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha, was given key portfolios - Minister of Electronics and Information and Technology, Railways, and Communications.
In the medium term, the two biggest challenges Mansukh Mandaviya faces are to ensure that the pace of vaccination improves, with enough supply stock in reserve, and that the infrastructure and trained personnel are in place to deal with the ‘third wave’.
Incumbent Bhupender Yadav has the most serious economic obstacles to contend with in an area where all is not in his ministry’s hands and will be dependent upon overall economic recovery.
Performance was one of Narendra Modi’s benchmarks for the induction of new faces and exclusion of others. At the same time, he has not lost his appetite for new experiments in governance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hallmark Cabinet expansion delivers a strong message of perform or perish, at the same time ensuring maximum representation to anchor voting segments
As many as 43 leaders were inducted as ministers in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Union Cabinet during the swearing-in at Rashtrapati Bhawan on July 7.
Jyotiraditya Scindia will be replacing Hardeep Singh Puri, who had held the post of Civil Aviation Minister since 2019.
A total of 43 new ministers took oath on June 7, including 15 Cabinet Ministers and 28 Ministers of State. Shortly before their induction, the incumbent ministers for health, education, environment and law submitted their resignations.
Jyotiraditya Scindia occupies the post which his late father Madhavrao Scindia once occupied, from 1991 until 1993 in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet.
Scindia became a minister for the first time in 2004 in the Manmohan Singh cabinet (UPA 1) when he was given the portfolio of minister of state (MoS) for Communications and Information Technology.
Swearing-in of newly inducted ministers took place at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's presence. As many as 43 leaders will take oath today in the Union Cabinet expansion. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ramachandra Prasad Singh, Ashwini Vasihnaw Narayan, Dr Virendra Kumar, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Kiren Rijiju and Raj Kumar Singh have taken oath as ministers in the new Cabinet. Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya and Bhupender Yadav also took oath
Sonowal joined the BJP in 2011, climbing the ranks quickly to become the president of BJP's Assam Unit in 2012, at a time when the party was looking for a new face.
The biggest shocker among them being Union minister for health and family welfare Harsh Vardhan and Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal.
Narayan Rane, a six-time MLA and one-time MLC, has held the post of the revenue minister of Maharashtra. He has also handled other important portfolios such as animal husbandry, industry, port, employment and self-employment in the Government of Maharashtra.