TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ A new look Modi government will be unveiled on Wednesday evening as 21 new faces find their way into the Council of Ministers. This will be the first big reshuffle of Modi2.0 and the names have been arrived at after much distillation and confabulations, looking at 2022 election scenario with five states, including Uttar Pradesh headed for polls.
The reshuffle is likely to be dominated by Bihar with Janata Dal United making a comeback followed by BJP nominations from Bengal. The prominent names include Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sushil Modi, Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane and West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh who will be part of the massive reshuffle of the Union Cabinet.
The new Ministers in the Modi government who are likely to be sworn in include former Congress heavyweight from Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia who is now in the BJP, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi. At the time of writing, the following had gone to the PM’s residence
1. Jyotiraditya Scindia, 2. Sarbananda Sonowal, 3. Bhupender Yadav, 4. Anurag Thakur, 5. Meenakshi Lekhi, 6. Anupriya Patel, 7. Ajay Bhatt, 8. Shobha Karandjale, 9. Sunita Duggal, 10.Pritam Munde, 11.Santanu Thakur, 12.Narayan Rane, 13.Kapil Patil, 14.Pashupati Nath Paras, 15.R.C.P. Singh, 16.G.Krishan Reddy,
BJP spokesperson and minority face Syed Zafar Islam is also tipped for a central government role. Also on the list are former Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal and former Maharashtra CM Narayan Rane.
