The Modi government has implemented a massive reshuffle in cabinet portfolio and Smriti Irani and Sadananda Gowda are the ones who felt the brunt of it. PM Modi has clearly sent a strong message through this cabinet reshuffle done just after the government has completed two years in the office.
According to media reports, Smriti Irani has been removed from the HRD Ministry and made the new Textiles Minister, claim sources. Meanwhile, Ravi Shankar Prasad has been made the Law Minister, replacing Sadananda Gowda, while Venkaiah Naidu has become the new I&B Minister, replacing Arun Jaitley. Prakash Javadekar meanwhile has been made the new HRD Minister. MJ Akbar, has been made the new MOS External Affairs.
Here are the appointments as of now:
Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law Minister
Venkaiah Naidu: New I and B Ministry
Prakash Javadekar: New HRD Minister
Smriti Irani - Textile Minister
Sports Minister: Vijay Goel
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation: Sadananda Gowda
Portfolio allocation: Ananth Kumar is the new Parliamentary Affairs minister
Portfolio allocation (MoS): Hansraj Gangaram given Home affairs, Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi given drinking water and sanitation department
Portfolio allocation (MoS): Anupriya Patel gets Health and family welfare, Ajay Tamta given textiles department
Portfolio allocation (MoS): Santosh Kumar Gangwar given Finance department. Faggan Singh Kulaste given health and family welfare
Portfolio allocation (MoS):Jayant Sinha given Civil aviation. Arjun Ram Meghwal given finance, corporate affairs.
Portfolio allocation (MoS): Ramdas Athawale given social justice and empowerment department. MJ Akbar given External affairs
Portfolio allocation (MoS): SS Aluhwalia given agriculture and farmers welfare, parliamentary affairs department.
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Complete List
Following is the new list of Council of Ministers
Prime Minister: Narendra Modi
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Atomic Energy
Department of Space
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs
Arun Jaitley: Finance & Corporate Affairs
M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information & Broadcasting
Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways& Shipping
Manohar Parrikar: Defence
Suresh Prabhu: Railways
D V Sadananda Gowda: Statistics & Programme Implementation
Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Najma A Heptulla: Minority Affairs
Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Kalraj Mishra, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women & Child Development
Ananth Kumar: Chemicals & Fertilizers
Parliamentary Affairs: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Law & Justice: Electronics & Information Technology
Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
Anant Geete: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar: Rural Development
Panchayati Raj: Drinking Water & Sanitation
Chaudhary Birender Singh: Steel
Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani: Textiles
Harsh Vardhan: Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar: Human Resource Development
Modi cabinet reshuffle
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted 19 new faces in the second expansion of his government ahead of political battles in Uttar Pradesh and other states. 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.
Official sources said the exercise was aimed at infusing more "experience, expertise and energy" into the government.
The choices also underscore BJP's attempts to strengthen its vote base among dalits and other backward castes, party sources said, adding that states, where it has done well in the Lok Sabha polls and also where it faces state polls, have also now got ample representation.
The saffron party has been trying to woo the weaker sections ahead of the crucial UP polls.
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