On Wednesday (July 7), a total of 43 leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) took oath as Ministers in the Narendra Modi government. The oath-taking ceremony started at 6 pm at the Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. This is the first cabinet reshuffle since the BJP formed the government in May 2019. Among the 43 ministers who took oath, 15 are cabinet ministers, and the rest 28 are ministers of state.
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While most of the ministers are new inductions in the ministry, seven existing ministers of state are also taking oath as cabinet ministers, as they have been promoted as cabinet ministers. They are Anurag Thakur, Hardeep Singh Puri, Kiren Rijiju, Parshottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy, Raj Kumar Singh and Mansukh Mandaviya.
Although 43 new ministers took oath today, the strength of the Modi government will go up by 24 only. This is because, among the 43 ministers who took the oath, 7 are existing Ministers of State promoted to cabinet rank. Apart from that, 12 ministers have resigned from the union ministry today.
The first to take the oath of office and secrecy was former Maharashtra CM Narayan Rane, followed by former Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal. Senior BJP leader Dr. Virendra Kumar and former Congress leader Jyotiraditya M Scindia were sworn in next.
Here is the full list of new ministers who took oath today:
Cabinet ministers
- Narayan Rane
- Sarbananda Sonowal
- Dr Virendra Kumar
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Ramchandra Prasad Singh
- Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
- Kiren Rijiju
- Raj Kumar Singh
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh Mandaviya
- Bhupender Yadav
- Parshottam Rupala
- G. Kishan Reddy
- Anurag Singh Thakur
Ministers of State
- Pankaj Choudhary
- Anupriya Singh Patel
- Satya Pal Singh Baghel
- Rajeev Chandrasekhar
- Shobha Karandlaje
- Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
- Darshana Vikram Jardosh
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Annapurna Devi
- A Narayanaswamy
- Kaushal Kishore
- Ajay Bhatt
- B. L Verma
- Ajay Kumar
- Chauhan Devusinh
- Bhagwanth Khuba
- Kapil Moreshwar Patil
- Pratima Bhowmik
- Subhas Sarkar
- Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
- Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
- Bharati Pravin Pawar
- Bishweswar Tudu
- Shantanu Thakur
- Manjupara Mahendrabhai
- John Barla
- L. Murugan
- Nisith Pramanik
List of Cabinet Ministers who have resigned
Earlier today, as many as 12 ministers tendered their resignations.
- Prakash javadekar, Minister of Information and Broadcasting
- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Law and JusticeHarsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
- Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister of Human Resource Development
- Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
- Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
- Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
- Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Woman and Child Development
- Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology
- Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
- Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Pratap Sarangi, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
- Rattan Lal Kataria, Minister of State for Jal Shakti
