Kishan Reddy Gets Tourism Portfolio

Kishan Reddy, who has been promoted from Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs to Union Cabinet Ministry rank, has been allocated the portfolio. According to reports, Kishan Reddy has got the Cultural and Tourism portfolio. In addition to this, Kishan Reddy has been given the additional task of development of the North-east region.

The meetings of Cabinet Ministers and Council of Ministers (CoM) will be held tomorrow, July 8, at 5 pm and 7 pm respectively. Among the 36 new faces in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ s reshuffled cabinet, eight have been identified as lawyers, four are doctors, two former IAS officers and four MBA degree holders, besides several engineers, making it a perfect mix of professionals.

After PM Narendra Modi returned to power for a second term in May 2019, he announced the ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’. 43 leaders have sworn-in as the Union Ministers. Of 43, 15 Ministers were inducted into the Union Cabinet and 28 Ministers inducted as Ministers of State.

12 senior Cabinet ministers have not secured any posts in Modi’s cabinet. Former Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, MoS Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Law & Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad and Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar haven’t secured berths in Modi’s cabinet

Take a look at who got what in Modi’s cabinet rejig.

Narendra Modi – Prime Minister, Minister of Science and Technology
Amit Shah – Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation
Nirmala Sitharaman – Finance Minister
Rajnath Singh – Defence Minister
Mansukh Mandaviya – Health Minister, Chemical and Fertilisers
Piyush Goel – Commerce, Consumer, Food Welfare & Textile Minister
Bhupendra Yadav – Labour, Forest, Environment & Climate Change Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan – Education and Skill Development Minister
Ashwini Vaishnaw – Railways, IT and Communication Minister
Jyotiraditya Scindia – Civil Aviation Minister
Pashupati Kumar Paras – Food Processing Minister
Anurag Singh Thakur – Information & Broadcasting, Youth Affairs and Sports Minister
Hardeep Singh Puri – Urban Development, Housing and Petroleum Minister
Purushottam Rupala – Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister
Virendra Kumar Khatik – Social Justice and Empowerment Minister
Narayan Tatu Rane: Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Ramchandra Prasad Singh – Minister of Steel
Kiren Rijiju: Minister of Law and Justice
Meenakshi Lekhi: MoS External Affairs.
Shobha Karandlaje: Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Pankaj Choudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
Annpurna Devi: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
A Narayanaswamy: Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Kaushal Kishore: Minister of State in Housing and Urban Affairs
Ajay Bhatt: Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
B L Verma: Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation
Anupriya Singh Patel: Minister of State in Commerce and Industry
Prof. S P Singh Baghel: Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice
Dr. Virendra Kumar: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ajay Kumar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Chauhan Devusinh: Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
Bhagwanth Khuba: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
Kapil Moreshwar Patil: Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
John Barla: Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
Gen VK Singh – Minister of State for Civil Aviation
Shripad Yesso Naik – Minister of State for Tourism