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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
PM Modi 2.0 Cabinet reshuffle 2021: In the biggest revamp of the Union Cabinet during the second term of the Narendra Modi government, as many as 43 members, including old and new ministers, were sworn in on Wednesday. Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah is now the new head of the newly formed Ministry of Cooperation. Meanwhile, 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. The ministry was headed by Dr Harshvardhan earlier, who resigned earlier today.
Among big names, Jyotiraditya Scindia was made the Union civil aviation minister. Pashupati Kumar Paras, Bhupender Yadav, Anupriya Patel, Shobha Karandlaje, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt and Anurag Thakur also took oath of office and secrecy.
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Lekhi, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh take charge as MoS in MEA; Jaishankar now has 3 deputies
Two new ministers of state, Meenakashi Lekhi and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh assumed charge in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday, a day after they were inducted into the union council of ministers as part of a massive reshuffle.
With the induction of Lekhi and Singh as MoS in the MEA, the number of deputies to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has increased to three. V Muraleedharan, an MP from Kerala, has already been serving as a deputy to Jaishankar.
Both Lekhi and Singh were welcomed at the headquarters of the MEA by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla.
Jaishankar, who is on a three-day visit to Moscow took to Twitter to welcome the two ministers to the MEA. (PTI)
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First Published: Jul 07 2021 | 12:12 PM IST
