Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Anurag Thakur takes charge as new I&B minisiter
Modi Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is now the new head of the newly formed Ministry of Cooperation. Stay tuned for LIVE updates
President Ram Nath Kovind administers oath of office and secrecy to cabinet minister Mansukh Mandaviya, at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
12:01 AM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Dr Virendra Kumar now Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
11:59 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Ashwini Vaishnav to be new Union Railways minister
Ashwini Vaishnav, who was inducted into the Union Cabinet on Wednesday evening, will be the new Union Minister of Railways. He will also head the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Vaishnaw, who has made a straight entry into the Union Cabinet without any stint as Minister of State, is a former IAS officer holding degrees from IIT Kanpur and Wharton Business School, and a BJP Rajya Sabha member from Odisha since 2019.
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has been given the charge of Ministry of Textiles in the big cabinet reshuffle and expansion by the Narendra Modi government on Wednesday.
While Goyal lost the Railways ministry portfolio to technocrat Ashwini Vaishnaw, he has retained the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Smriti Irani was earlier the textiles minister.
11:51 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Amit Shah to head new Ministry of Co-operation along with Home Affairs
Amit Shah, the number two in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, will now also handle the newly-set up Ministry of Cooperation along with his current Home Affairs portfolio. The additional charge was made known today as part of the massive reshuffle of ministries that saw several old timers making way for new faces.
The setting up of the Ministry of Cooperation was announced yesterday, aimed at providing more heft to the cooperative movement in the country. "Sahkar se samriddhi" (Prosperity from cooperation) is its vision statement, according to a release from the Cabinet Secretariat released yesterday.
"This ministry will provide a separate administrative, legal, and policy framework for strengthening the cooperative movement in the country. It will help deepen co-operatives as a true people-based movement reaching up to the grassroots," it said.
11:34 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Anurag Thakur gets Information and Broadcasting, and Sports ministry
Anurag Thakur, the BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur who was sworn-in today as a cabinet minister, has been entrusted with two important portfolios - Information and Broadcasting, and Sports. Thakur, 46, was previously the Minister of State for Finance. He is among six ministers who have been promoted to cabinet.
11:32 PM
Full list of portfolios assigned to newly inducted ministers in the Modi Cabinet
CABINET RANK
Narayan Rane: Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal: Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, and AYUSH
Dr Virendra Kumar: Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
Jyotiraditya Scindia: Union Minister for Civil Aviation
Ramchandra Prasad Singh: Union Minister for Steel
Ashwini Vaishnaw: Union Minister for Railways, Communication, Electronics & IT
Pashupati Kumar Paras: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries
Bhupender Yadav: Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Labour & Employment
MINISTERS OF STATE
Pankaj Choudhary: Minister of State for Finance
Anupriya Patel: Minister of State for Commerce & Industries
Satya Pal Singh Baghel: Minister of State for Law & Justice
Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Electronics & IT
Shobha Karandlaje: Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma: Minister of State for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Darshana Vikram Jardosh: Minister of State for Textiles, Railways
Meenakshi Lekhi: Minister of State for External Affairs, Culture
Annpurna Devi: Minister of State for Education
A Narayanaswamy: Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment
Kaushal Kishore: Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs
Ajay Bhatt: Minister of State for Defence, Tourism
B L Verma: Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region, Cooperation
Ajay Kumar: Minister of State for Home Affairs
Chauhan Devusinh: Minister of State for Communications
Bhagwanth Khuba: Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy, Chemicals and Fertilisers
Kapil Moreshwar Patil: Minister of State for Panchayati Raj
Pratima Bhoumik: Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr Subhas Sarkar: Minister of State for Education
Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad: Minister of State for Finance
Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh: Minister of State for External Affairs, Education
Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar: Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare
Bishweswar Tudu: Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, Jal Shakti
Shantanu Thakur: Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai: Minister of State for Women and Child Development, AYUSH
John Barla: Minister of State for Minority Affairs
Dr L Murugan: Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, and Information and Broadcasting
Nisith Pramanik: Minister of State for Home Affairs, Youth Affairs and Sports
11:30 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Sarbananda Sonowal now Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways; and Minister of AYUSH
Former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal took oath as Union Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet today. Sarbananda Sonowal served as Assam's chief minister between 2016 and 2021.
11:19 PM
Full list of ministers of state in the Modi govt, and their portfolios
Shripad Yesso Naik: Ports, Shipping and Waterways; Tourism
Munjapara Mahendrabhai: Women and Child Development, AYUSH
John Barla: Minority Affairs
L Murugan: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Information and Broadcasting
Nisith Pramanik: Home Affairs, Youth Affairs and Sports
11:18 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Babul Supriyo, Prakash Javadekar resigned from their posts today
Union Ministers, from left to right in the top row- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rattan Lal Kataria, Santosh Kumar Gangwar and Babul Supriyo; from left to right in the middle row- Debasree Chaudhuri, Thaawarchand Gehlot, DV Sadananda Gowda and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank; and from left to right in the bottom row- Prakash Javadekar, Sanjay Dhotre, Harsh Vardhan and Pratap Chandra Sarangi- who resigned from their posts with immediate effect ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle, in New Delhi today.
11:15 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Hardeep Singh Puri given charge of Petroleum and Urban Development Ministries
Hardeep Singh Puri was sworn in as minister in the new cabinet. Puri took oath at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The Union Minister has been given the charge of the Petroleum Ministry and Urban Development Ministry.
He previously served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry. Puri is a member of parliament in the upper house, Rajya Sabha since January 2018.
11:10 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Kiren Rijiju, promoted to the Cabinet, gets law ministry
Kiren Rijiju has been elevated to the cabinet minister rank and given the charge of the Ministry of Law and Justice. He had been serving as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Ayush portfolios.
11:06 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Jyotiraditya Scindia gets Civil Aviation Ministry, once headed by his father
Scindia, 50, resigned from the Congress and joined the BJP in March 2020 and his move triggered a chain of events that finally culminated in the collapse of the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh just 15 months after its formation, paving the way for the BJP to take power in the state.
11:01 PM
Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Mansukh Mandaviya gets health ministry as India battles Covid-19 pandemic
Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister-in-charge of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Chemicals and Fertilizers, has been given the additional charge of the crucial health ministry as part of the cabinet reshuffle
10:59 PM
Full list of ministers of state independent charge in the Modi govt, and their portfolios
Rao Inderjit Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation, Planning, Corporate Affairs
Jitendra Singh: Science & Technology; Earth Sciences; Prime Minister's Office; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space
10:55 PM
Full list of ministers with Cabinet rank in the Modi govt, and their portfolios
Rajnath Singh: Defence Minister
Amit Shah: Home Minister, Cooperation Minister
Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman: Finance Minister, Corporate Affairs Minister
Narendra Singh Tomar: Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister
S Jaishankar: External Affairs Minister
Arjun Munda: Tribal Affairs Minister
Smriti Irani: Women and Child Welfare Minister
Piyush Goyal: Commerce & Industry Minister, Consumer Affairs Minister, Food & Public Distribution Minister, Textiles Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan: Education Minister, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister
Pralhad Joshi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Coal Minister, Mines Minister
Narayan Rane: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal: Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister, AYUSH Minister
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs Minister
Dr Virendra Kumar: Social Justice and Empowerment Minister
Giriraj Singh: Rural Development Minister, Panchayati Raj Minister
Jyotiraditya Scindia: Civil Aviation Minister
Ramchandra Prasad Singh: Steel Minister
Ashwini Vaishnaw: Railways Minister, Communication Minister, Electronics & IT Minister
Pashu Pati Kumar Paras: Food Processing Industries Minister
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Jal Shakti Minister
Kiren Rijiju: Law & Justice Minister
Raj Kumar Singh: Power Minister, New & Renewable Energy Minister
Hardeep Singh Puri: Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister, Housing & Urban Affairs Minister
Mansukh Mandaviya: Health and Family Welfare Minister, Chemicals & Fertilisers Minister
Bhupender Yadav: Environment, Forest & Climate Change Minister, Labour & Employment Minister
Mahendra Nath Pandey: Heavy Industries Minister
Parshottam Rupala: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister
G Kishan Reddy: Culture Minister, Tourism Minister, Minister for Development of Northeast
Anurag Thakur: Information & Broadcasting Minister, Sports & Youth Affairs Minister
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