Narayan Rane, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Meenakshi Lekhi and Bhupender Yadav are among the leaders that were inducted in the union Cabinet on Wednesday in a major reshuffle of the Narendra Modi ministry, first of the NDA government’s second term.
In an exercise meant to make the Cabinet more inclusive — with more OBCs, women — and better representation from states, 43 leaders are expected to take oath, according to a list shared by news agency ANI.
Among others on the list are Apna Dal’s Anupriya Singh Patel, Karnataka leader Shobha Karandlaje, John Barla and Dr L Murugan.
Termed as a ‘big shake up’, the Cabinet reshuffle was preceded by a slew of resignations by Union ministers. Among those who quit were Health Minister Harshvardhan, Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, his MoS Sanjay Dhotre, MoS Women and Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri and Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda.
The reshuffle comes at a time when the BJP is bracing to face 5 state assembly elections next year, including the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, and the government is trying for an image makeover to counter the intense Opposition criticism over the alleged gaps in the handling of the second wave of the COVID pandemic that brought the country to its knees.
Here’s the full list of the 43 who made it to the Modi Cabinet:
3) Virendra Kumar
5) Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6) Ashwini Vaishnaw
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) Satya Pal Singh Baghel
19) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
20) Sushri Shobha Karandlaje
21) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
22) Darshana Vikram Jardosh
23) Meenakashi Lekhi
24) Annpurna Devi
25) A Narayanaswamy
26) Kaushal Kishore
27) Ajay Bhatt
28) BL Verma
29) Ajay Kumar
30) Chauhan Devusinh
31) Bhagwanth Khuba
32) Kapil Moreshwar Patil
33) Pratima Bhoumik
34) Subhas Sarkar
35) Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
36) Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
37) Bharati Pravin Pawar
38) Bishweswar Tudu
39) Shantanu Thakur
40) Munjapara Mahendrabhai
41) John Barla
42) L Murugan
43) Nisith Pramanik
The reshuffle was preceded by a slew of resignations by ministers, including Harshvardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Prakash Javadekar and Ravi Shankar Prasad.
