12 Union Ministers Resign: Some Big Names In It

Ahead of the central cabinet reshuffle, 12 ministers have resigned and the President of India, Ramnath Kovind has approved their resignation. However, there are some big names like Ravi Shankar Prasad, the IT minister who always stays in headlines, Dr. Harsha Vardhan, the health minister. There is seriously a bold move by PM Modi.

Here is the full list:

  1. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
  2. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister of Human Resource Development
  3. Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
  4. Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
  5. Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Woman and Child Development
  6. Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology
  7. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
  8. Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change
  9. Pratap Sarangi, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
  10. Rattan Lal Kataria, Minister of State for Jal Shakti
  11. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications
  12. Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

Modi has included 43 new faces in his new cabinet and we have to see who gets these above portfolios. There are some high profile portfolios.

Here is the list of ministers who took oath today for their new departments:

  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
  42. Dr. L. Murugan
  43. Nisith Pramanik
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