In a mega cabinet expansion, 43 leaders took the oath of office as ministers in the Modi government. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Bhupender Yadav, Anupriya Patel, Shobha Karandlaje, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt, Anurag Thakur among others have been included in the government.
Union minister Babul Supriyo stepped down from the Union cabinet on Wednesday.
Ashwini Kumar Choubey is a Lok Sabha MP from Buxar parliamentary seat of Bihar.
The resignations come ahead of the expansion of the Union Cabinet scheduled this evening.
The expansion exercise is scheduled to be held at 6 pm at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
This will be the first reshuffle of the Council of Ministers by PM Narendra Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019. The Union Cabinet can have 81 ministers.
Gangwar, who held the position of Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour and Employment resigned from his post early this morning.
In a video message, Sanjay Nishad said that the Nishad community wields influence in over 160 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has been dropped from the Modi Cabinet.
rime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to get a new Council of Ministers with the first major Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday since BJP’s thumping victory in 2019.
Union Minister Debasree Chaudhuri has been relieved just ahead of the Cabinet expansion today evening. She held the MoS for Women and Child Development.
Modi Cabinet Expansion: The Union Cabinet can have 81 members. At present, there are 53 ministers. There is a scope for adding 28 new faces.
The JDU has 16 MPs in the Lok Sabha and the BJP 17 MPs from Bihar. The party argues that it should be given four berths.
Reports say that Scindia and Sonowal are among others who would take the oath when Prime Minister Narendra Modi expands the Council of Ministers.
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