New Delhi, July 7: After much anticipation, 43 leaders were on Wednesday evening inducted as Union Ministers as part of the reshuffle of the Union Cabinet by PM Narendra Modi. The names of the new ministers were announced just before of the oath-taking ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Among the 43 MPs, 4 faces are from the North East region, namely, Kiren Rijiju (Arunachal Pradesh), Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam), Dr. R.K Ranjan Singh (Manipur), and Pratima Bhowmik (Tripura). The new faces each represent a state ruled by BJP in the region.
Among the 43 leaders, 7 Minister of States (MoS) have been elevated to Union Ministers while 36 new Ministers have been inducted.
With the inclusion of 43 new members, the Council of Ministers has swelled to 77 members from the earlier number of 58. According to the Constitution of India, the total number of ministers in the Council of Ministers must not exceed 15% of the total number of members of the Lok Sabha.
Just before the oath taking ceremony, atleast 13 Ministers resigned including big names like – Dr Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ramesh Pokhriyal among others.
Meanwhile, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Thawarchand Gehlot resigned following his elevation to the post of Governor of Karnataka on Tuesday. The BJP-led NDA government had on Tuesday announced Governors to eight states.
List of 43 Minister inducted into Union Cabinet
1. Narayan Tatu Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
8. Kiren Rijiju
9. Raj Kumar Singh
10. Hardeep Singh Puri
11. Mansukh Mandaviya
12. Bhupender Yadav
13. Parshottam Rupala
14. G Kishan Reddy
15. Anurag Singh Thakur
16. Pankaj Choudhary
17. Anupriya Singh Patel
18. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
19. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
20. Shobha Karandlaje
21. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
22. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
23. Meenakashi Lekhi
24. Annpurna Devi
25. A Narayanaswamy
26. Kaushal Kishore
27. Ajay Bhatt
28. BL Verma
29. Ajay Kumar
30. Chauhan Devusinh
31. Bhagwanth Khuba
32. Kapil Moreshwar Patil
33. Pratima Bhoumik
34. Dr. Subhas Sarkar
35. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
36. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
37. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
38. Bishweswar Tudu
39. Shantanu Thakur
40. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
41. John Barla
42. Dr. L Murugan
43. Nisith Pramanik
List of Ministers that have exited from Cabinet
– Dr Harsh Vardhan – Minister for Health and Family Welfare
– Prakash Javadekar – Minister for environment, information and broadcasting and heavy industries
– Ravi Shankar Prasad – Law and Information Technology
– Ramesh Pokhriyal – Minister of Education
– D.V. Sadananda Gowda – Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers
– Thawarchand Gehlot – Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
– Santosh Gangwar – MoS (Independent Charge), Labour and Employment
– Debasree Chaudhuri – MoS, Women and Child Development
– Sanjay Dhotre – MoS, Education
– Babul Supriyo – MoS, Environment, Forest and Climate Change
– Ashwini Kumar Choubey- MoS, Health and Family Welfare
– Pratap Chandra Sarangi – MoS, Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries & MSME
– Raosaheb Danve – MoS, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
