TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ PM Modi on reshuffled his Cabinet in which four Ministers of State elevated to Cabinet rank and nine new faces inducted as Ministers of State.
The new inductees in Modi’s ministry are: RK Singh (Lok Sabha MP from Arrah, Bihar), Hardeep Singh Puri (ex-diplomat), Shiv Pratap Shukla (Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh), Satyapal Singh (Lok Sabha MP from Baghpat), Alphons Kannanthanam (ex-bureaucrat), Ashwini Kumar Choubey (Lok Sabha MP from Buxar, Bihar), Anant Kumar Dattatreya Hegde (Lok Sabha MP from Uttara Kannada), Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Lok Sabha MP from Jodhpur), andVirendra Kumar (Lok Sabha MP from Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh).
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
This was the third cabinet reshuffle since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came to power in 2014.
Rao Inderjit Singh- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning, Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Raj Kumar Singh- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Hardeep Singh Puri- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Alphons Kannanthanam- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Santosh Kumar Gangwar- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment
Shripad Yesso Naik- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
Jitendra Singh- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space
Mahesh Sharma- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Giriraj Singh- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Manoj Sinha- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore- Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh- Minister of Home Affairs, Sushma Swaraj- Minister of External Affairs, Arun Jaitley- Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman- Minister of Defence, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi- Minister of Minority Affairs, Piyush Goyal- Minister of Railways; and Minister of Coal, Dharmendra Pradhan- Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Prakash Javadekar- Minister of Human Resource Development, Nitin Jairam Gadkari- Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Minister of Shipping, Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Suresh Prabhu- Minister of Commerce and Industry, Smriti Zubin Irani- Minister of Textiles, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, D.V. Sadananda Gowda- Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation Uma Bharati- Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation Ramvilas Paswan- Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi- Minister of Women and Child Development, Ananth Kumar- Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Ravi Shankar Prasad- Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Jagat Prakash Nadda- Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Ashok Gajapathi Raju- Pusapati Minister of Civil Aviation, Anant Geete- Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Harsimrat Kaur Badal- Minister of Food Processing Industries, Narendra Singh Tomar- Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Mines, Chaudhary Birender Singh- Minister of Steel, Jual Oram- Minister of Tribal Affairs, Radha Mohan Singh- Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Thaawar Chand Gehlot- Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Harsh Vardhan- Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Earth Sciences, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
