Cabinet reshuffle: 4 ministers raised to Cabinet rank, 9 new ones inducted

President Ram Nath Kovind administered oath of office and secrecy to the 13 ministers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers was expanded on Sunday, with nine new faces --  including four former bureaucrats -- being inducted, suggesting an admission of talent crunch in the BJP ranks.

The four are former Union home secretary R K Singh, former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Satyapal Singh, former diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri, and retired IAS officer KJ Alphons Kannanthanam. The five other new faces include MPs Ashwini Choubey from Bihar and Anant Kumar Hegde from Karnataka. The others to be inducted are Shiv Pratap Shukla, a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh; Virendra Kumar, a Scheduled