In the primary cupboard reshuffle train since Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to energy for a second time period in 2019, a complete of 43 leaders have been sworn in as ministers at a ceremony held on the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday.
The reshuffle adopted a prolonged evaluation train by the PM and prime BJP officers in a sequence of conferences with ministers. These have been organized within the wake of the disastrous second Covid wave, which drew widespread criticism of the federal government – together with in lots of courts – for its mismanagement of the disaster.
The newly inducted council of ministers includes 15 cupboard ministers and 28 ministers of state (MoS), together with contemporary faces and who’ve been promoted. While Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane, and Jyotiraditya Scindia have been among the many first to be sworn in as cupboard ministers, Kiren Rijiju, RK Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Purushottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur have been promoted to the cupboard. it was accomplished. Level.
While Rane and Sonowal had beforehand served as chief ministers of Maharashtra and Assam respectively, Scindia, a Congress-turned-BJP chief, is a Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh. He had served because the Union Minister of State for Power (Independent Charge) and Union Minister of State for Commerce and Communications throughout the then UPA authorities.
Ahead of the reshuffle, a complete of 12 ministers resigned from their posts, together with BJP veterans Harsh Vardhan (Health Minister), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology Minister), and Prakash Javadekar (Forest and Climate Change Minister). . Other ministers who’re out of the cupboard are Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (Education Minister), Babul Supriyo, Sadananda Gowda, Santosh Gangwar, Debashree Choudhary, Ratan Lal Kataria, Sanjay Dhotre, Thaawarchand Gehlot, Pratap Chandra Sarangi (MoS) and Ashwini Choubey. MOS).
Lok Sabha MP from Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar, Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha Ashwini Vaishnav, Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar and JD(U) chief RCP Singh, Lok Sabha MP from Hajipur in Bihar Pashupati Kumar Paras have been additionally administered the oath of cupboard. Minister Bhupendra Yadav, who was working as a common secretary within the BJP group, additionally took oath as a cupboard minister.
28 ministers of state took oath, together with seven from Uttar Pradesh, the place elections are due subsequent yr and the BJP is in search of a second time period there. Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Patel, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Kaushal Kishor, SPS Baghel and Ajay Kumar- all Lok Sabha MPs from Uttar Pradesh took oath as the brand new Union Ministers of State. BL Verma, Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh additionally took oath as Minister of State.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Shobha Karandlaje, MPs from Karnataka; Darshan Vikram Jardosh from Gujarat; New Delhi Lok Sabha MP Meenakshi Lekhi; Annapurna Devi (Jharkhand), A. Narayanaswamy (Karnataka); Ajay Bhatt (Uttarakhand), Chouhan Devusingh (Gujarat) additionally took oath as Minister of State.
Others who took oath as Minister of State on the ceremony have been Bhagwant Khuba (Karnataka); Kapil Moreshwar Patil (Maharashtra); Pratima Bhowmik (Tripura); Subhash Sarkar (West Bengal); Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad (Maharashtra); Rajkumar Ranjan Singh (Manipur); MPs Bharti Pawar (Maharashtra), Bishweshwar Tudu (Odisha) and Shantanu Thakur (West Bengal) Munjapara Mahendrabhai (Gujarat), John Barla and Nisith Pramanik (West Bengal); and BJP’s Tamil Nadu state president L Murugan.
With the reshuffle, Modi has now introduced in younger faces and has additionally given illustration to numerous social teams and sectors.
observe criticism, Congress has stated the reshuffle was not impressed by the protests Or governance however for “distribution of the spoils of power” and “adjustment” of defectors.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala stated the prime minister ought to have been the primary to be eliminated for his failures in offering governance if the cupboard is to be expanded on the idea of efficiency. “Many Dalits, members of backward castes are being made ministers. They are doing it from the point of election. This is being done to divert the attention of the people. They are doing this not for the welfare of the communities but because of their compulsion,” Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge was quoted as saying by ANI.
(With inputs from PTI and ANI)
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
