Ahead of the much-awaited elections in five states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the reshuffle of his union cabinet. This marks the cabinet expansion of the union government since the BJP made it to power for the second time.
BJP Parliamentarian from Telangana’s Secunderabad G. Kishan Reddy, who holds the Ministry of State for Home Affairs is all set to get elated and find a spot in the cabinet expansion. However, there is no information on what portfolio will be given to him.
As the cabinet expansion will have 43 names, several Ministers have resigned from their posts. Besides allotting a few posts to the ally parties, the saffron party BJP is expected to give posts to leaders keeping the election in mind.
Union Ministers like Harsh Vardhan(Health), Ravi Shankar(IT), Prakash Javadekar(Environment), Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank(Education) have resigned from their respective posts ahead of the reshuffle. However, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank is not an aspirant for the post in the new cabinet. Citing his health condition, he said, he is not expecting a cabinet post. In total, 10 Ministers resigned from their posts.
The below-mentioned leaders are the new faces in Narendra Modi’s reshuffled Union Cabinet. More details on what portfolio will be allotted to them are awaited.
1. Narayan Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashupati 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. Meenakshi Lekhi
24. Annapurna Devi
25.A. Narayanaswamy
26.Kaushal Kishore
27.Ajay Bhatt
28.B. L. 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
