Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government on Wednesday effected a major overhaul of his Council of Ministers, with 43 members taking the oath, including 15 inducted into the cabinet rank and 28 as Minister of State.
Out of the 43 new ministers, seven were already in the Council of Ministers and elevated to the cabinet rank. The reshuffle saw a mix of MPs getting inducted who represent different parts of the country.
There were seven women who were inducted to the council of ministers – Anupriya Singh Patel, Sobha Karandlaje, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Meenakshi Lekhi, Annpurna Devi, Pratima Bhoumik, and Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar.
However, the portfolios of the newly-inducted ministers has not yet been disclosed.
The day began with 12 resignations from erstwhile ministers, including the likes of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Harsh Vardhan, and Prakash Javadekar, among others.
List of Cabinet ministers:
1) Narayan Tatu Rane
2) Sarbnanda Sonowal
3) Virendra Kumar
4) Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5) Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6) Ashwini Vaishnaw
7) Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
8) Kiren Rijiju
9) Raj Kumar Singh
10) Hardeep Singh Puri
11) Mansukh Mandayiya
12) Bhupender Yadav
13) Parshottam Rupala
14) G Kishan Reddy
15) Anurag Singh Thakur
Ministers of State
1) Pankaj Choudhary
2) Anupriya Singh Patel
3) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
4) Satya Pal Singh Baghel
5) Sobha Karandlaje
6) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
7) Darshana Vikram Jardosh
8) Meenakshi Lekhi
9) Annpurna Devi
10) A Narayanswamy
11) Kaushal Kishore
12) Ajay Bhatt
13) B L Verma
14) Ajay Kumar
15) Chauhan Devusinh
16) Bhagwanth Khuba
17) Kapil Moreshwar Patil
18) Sushri Pratima Bhoumik
19) Subhas Sarkar
20) Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
21) Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
22) Bharati Pravin Pawar
23) Bihweswar Tudu
24) Shantanu Thakur
25) Munjapara Mahendrabhai
26) John Barla
27) L Murugan
28) Nisith Pramanik
Ministers who resigned
1) D V Sadananda Gowda
2) Ravi Shankar Prasad
3) Thaawarchand Gehlot
4) Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
5) Dr Harsh Vardhan
6) Prakash Javadekar
7) Santosh Kumar Gangwar
8) Babul Supriyo
9) Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
10) Rattan Lal Kataria
11) Pratap Chandra Sarangi
12) Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri
