Modi’s new team begins work
Modi
changed the portfolios in the night in which Anantha Kumar and DV Sadananda
Gowda from Karnataka were given the portfolios of Parliamentary Affairs and
Statistics and Programme Implimentation respectively. New comer Jigjinagi was given drinking water and sanitation department.
Here is the new portfolio list:
Smriti
Irani has now been given Textiles Ministry.
Ananth Kumar is the new Parliamentary Affairs minister
Santosh
Kumar Gangwar given Finance department
Faggan Singh Kulaste given health and family welfare.
Faggan Singh Kulaste given health and family welfare.
Hansraj Gangaram
given Home affairs
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi given drinking water and
sanitation department
Anupriya
Patel gets Health and family welfare.
Ajay Tamta given textiles department.Jayant Sinha given Civil aviation
Ajay Tamta given textiles department.Jayant Sinha given Civil aviation
Arjun Ram Meghwal given finance, corporate affairs.
Ramdas
Athawale given social justice and empowerment department.
MJ Akbar given
External affairs.
SS
Aluhwalia given agriculture and farmers welfare, parliamentary affairs
department.
Sports
ministry given to Vijay Goel.Sadananda
Gowda given Statistics and Programme implementation.
RS Prasad given Law and Justice department
RS Prasad given Law and Justice department
Five
ministers of state were dropped in the second exercise undertaken by Modi in a
little more than two years since he took over in May, 2014 which saw a number
of dalit and OBC leaders being given ministerial positions apparently with an
eye on assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand next year and
Gujarat later.
Javadekar, who held independent charge of Environment, was the lone minister to be promoted to the cabinet rank while all new inductees took oath as Ministers of State. Earlier, there was speculation that Power Minister Piyush Goel and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be elevated to the Cabinet.
Ajay Tamta (Uttarakhand), Arjun Ram Meghwal (Rajasthan), Krishna Raj (UP), Athawale (Maharashtra), Ramesh C Jigajinagi (Karnataka) were among the dalit MPs administered the oath of Office and Secrecy by President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan attended by Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Modi, his cabinet colleagues, BJP President Amit Shah and leaders allied parties among others. No Congress leader was present.
Others who were inducted included P P Chaudhary, C R Chaudhary (Rajasthan), A M Dave, Faggan Singh Kulaste (Madhya Pradesh), Mahendra Nath Pandey (UP), Purshotam Rupala, J Bhabhor and Mansukhbhai Mandaviya (Gujarat), Rajen Gohain (Assam) and S R Bhamre (Maharashtra).
Javadekar, who held independent charge of Environment, was the lone minister to be promoted to the cabinet rank while all new inductees took oath as Ministers of State. Earlier, there was speculation that Power Minister Piyush Goel and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be elevated to the Cabinet.
Ajay Tamta (Uttarakhand), Arjun Ram Meghwal (Rajasthan), Krishna Raj (UP), Athawale (Maharashtra), Ramesh C Jigajinagi (Karnataka) were among the dalit MPs administered the oath of Office and Secrecy by President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan attended by Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Modi, his cabinet colleagues, BJP President Amit Shah and leaders allied parties among others. No Congress leader was present.
Others who were inducted included P P Chaudhary, C R Chaudhary (Rajasthan), A M Dave, Faggan Singh Kulaste (Madhya Pradesh), Mahendra Nath Pandey (UP), Purshotam Rupala, J Bhabhor and Mansukhbhai Mandaviya (Gujarat), Rajen Gohain (Assam) and S R Bhamre (Maharashtra).
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