The former Norwegian diplomat, politician and environment minister played a crucial role in 2018 as the UN Environment chief in convincing India to phase out single-use plastics by 2022, a major achievement in his crusade against plastic pollution.
Ahead of Cabinet expansion on Wednesday, Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar tender their resignation.
Ahead of the mega cabinet expansion in the Modi government 2.0, India TV has accessed the list of all leaders who are likely to be inducted in the government on Wednesday.
43 leaders will take oath as Union Ministers in the Union Cabinet expansion, to be held later today, news agency ANI reported. The Union Cabinet can have 81 members.
Modi's meeting with BJP national president JP Nadda and top ministers has been cancelled. The meeting was scheduled for 5 pm today. The meeting was likely to be attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad and others. At today's meeting, the Prime Minister was likely to discuss the performance of ministers and also proposals on future schemes. Earlier on June 20, the PM had held a similar meeting.
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