Some of the prominent faces inducted or promoted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet include Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt, Anurag Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Anupriya Patel, Hardeep Singh Puri.
Union ministers Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank were among the top politicians who resigned from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet on Wednesday.
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.
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.
Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot was on Tuesday appointed as Karnataka Governor and Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel was named as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué. Gehlot (73), Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, is a prominent Dalit leader. He served as the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Modi government. Besides, he also served the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha. A member of the Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee of the BJP, his appointment as the Governor of Karnataka came amid talks of Cabinet expansion.
Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot was on Tuesday appointed as Karnataka Governor and Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel was named as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué.
Reports say that Scindia and Sonowal are among others who would take the oath when Prime Minister Narendra Modi expands the Council of Ministers.
Modi govt expansion, Union Cabinet expansion: As many as 20 new ministers could take oath when Prime Minister Narendra Modi expands the Council of Ministers. According to sources, the exercise could take place on July 7.
PM Modi’s prerogative when to carry out the reshuffle and there is a possibility that he may not go for a reshuffle now.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a meeting with the Council of Ministers today where he reviewed the overall Covid-19 situation in the country. The Prime Minister also reviewed the performance of some ministries.
Cabinet expansion took place in the Union Territory of Puducherry on June 27.
Ending the more than a month-long suspense over cabinet formation, five ministers, including two from the BJP, were inducted in the Chief Minister N Rangasamy-led NDA cabinet on Sunday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to expand his cabinet in December as the winter session of the assembly concluded in November after the formation of the new state government.
Several loyalists of Jyotiraditya Scindia, a long-time Congress leader who switched to the BJP in March, were among the ministers sworn in today.
Former Union minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia early on Thursday had arrived to participate in the oath-taking ceremony. The initial "mini" expansion of the Chouhan cabinet took place on April 21 with the induction of five ministers, including two former Congress MLAs close to Scindia -- Tulsi Silawat and Govind Singh Rajput.
The Madhya Pradesh cabinet expansion will take place on Thursday, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said. Chouhan flew to New Delhi on Sunday to hold consultations with the central BJP leadership over the much- talked about cabinet expansion.
The much-awaited expansion of the single-member Madhya Pradesh cabinet held on Tuesday after 5 BJP leaders took oath as ministers in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government. The oath was administered by Governor Lalji Tandon.
Expansion of Madhya Pradesh cabinet, under Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, to be held tomorrow, news agency ANI reported qouting sources.
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