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Modi’s Cabinet reboot: 12 out, 15 in
Updated On: 08 July, 2021 08:32 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Mansukh Mandaviya is health minister; Jyotiraditya Scindia gets Civil Aviation, Kiren Rijiju Law and Justice, Ashwini Vaishnaw Railways and IT
Union ministers R S Prasad, Rattan Lal Kataria, Santosh Kumar Gangwar and Babul Supriyo; Debasree Chaudhuri, Thaawarchand Gehlot, DV Sadananda Gowda and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. Pic/PTI
Effecting a big reset, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday brought in Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Scindia as Union Cabinet ministers while dropping 12 ministers, including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar. A total of 43 ministers took oath, out of which 36 were new entrants while the rest were elevated to the Cabinet level.
Fifteen Cabinet ministers were sworn-in. These include Rane, 69, a Rajya Sabha MP and a former Maharashtra chief minister, former Assam CM Sonowal, 58, who earlier served as MoS (Independent charge) for Skill Development under Modi, Scindia, 50, a Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh has been Union MoS in the earlier UPA government. Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar, Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha Ashwini Vaishnaw, Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar and JD(U) leader Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Lok Sabha MP from Bihar Pashupati Kumar Paras. Bhupendra Yadav, the BJP organisation’s general secretary.
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