Forty-three people took oath of office at the Rashtrapati Bhawan to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new team. Here we look at some of the most significant changes, entries, elevations and drops.
New Ministry
Home Minister Amit Shah gets additional responsibility of the new ministry of cooperation.
Railways
Piyush Goyal (left) makes way for Ashwini Vasihnaw, an Ex-Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer turned entrepreneur who joined BJP in 2019 and was sent to Rajya Sabha from Odisha. Goyal gets ministry of textiles and keeps the ministry of commerce.
Electronics and Info & Tech, Communications
Ravi Shankar Prasad is out and Piyush Goyal (left) makes Ashwini Vasihnaw is here too.
Law and Justice
Ravi Shankar Prasad replaced with Kiren Rijiju
Health
Dr Harsh Vardhan makes way for Mansukh Mandaviya who was earlier the Minister of State (Indpendent) of shipping and Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilzers.
Petroleum and Natural Gas
Dharmendra Pradhan makes way for Hardeep Singh Puri who also gets the minister position for housing and urban affairs ministry where he was earlier a minister of state (independent charge).
Civil Aviation
Jyotiraditya Scindia whose defection from the Congress led to the fall of the Madhya Pradesh government now gets a ministry
Information & Broadcasting
Prakash Javadekar makes way for Anurag Thakur who also gets the ministry of sports.
AYUSH; Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Consumer Affairs
Piyush Goyal
Steel
The JD(U) makes a return to the Cabinet with Ramachandra Prasad Singh, a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar.
Food Processing Industry
Lok Janshakti Party’s Pashupati Kumar Paras has been in the spotlight over the last few weeks with his ongoing feud with nephew Chirag Paswan who had split the party from the JD(U)-BJP coalition in the Bihar elections last year. Paras is a Lok Sabha member from Hajipur in Bihar.
Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Prakash Javadekar give way to Bhupender Yadav, BJP Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan.
Labour
Santosh Kumar Gangwar makes way for Bhupender Yadav.
Hindustan Times Graphic
Seven new women ministers (L to R): Darshana Vikram Jardosh Lok Sabha member from Surat (MoS Railways), Pratima Bhoumik Lok Sabha member from West Tripura (MoS Social Justice and Empowerment), Shobha Karandlaje from Karnataka (MoS Agriculture and Farmers Welfare), Smirit Irani and Nirmala Sitharaman (who were already Union ministers for women and child development and finance, respectively), Dr Bharati Pawar Lok Sabha member from Dindora in Maharashtra (MoS Health and Family welfare), Meenakshi Lekhi Lok Sabha member from New Delhi (MoS External Affairs, Culture), Anupriya Patel (MoS Commerce and Industry) and Annpurna Devi Lok Sabha member from Kodarma in Jharkhand (MoS education).
I am a journalist who has been on the editorial team and reported for two reputed Indian dailies in New Delhi -- Hindustan Times and The Indian Express -- since 2014. As such, I have had a ringside seat at all the happenings in the field of national politics, policy and law.
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