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New Appointments of Minister of Union Cabinet

New Appointments of Minister of Union Cabinet

Nine new Ministers of state were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers. Four Ministers of state were elevated to the cabinet rank. They are Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State For Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to them at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Here is the 9 New Ministers, who take oath

  1. Former IFS officer Hardeep Puri
  2. Former Mumbai Police chief Satyapal Singh
  3. Former IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam
  4. Lok Sabha MP’s from Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar
  5. From Karnataka Anant Kumar Hegde
  6. From Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
  7. From Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey
  8. From Bihar Raj Kumar Singh and
  9. Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla

Here is the Full list of Portfolios of changed Ministers

Minister Portfolio Previously held portfolio
Dharmendra Pradhan Cabinet Minister Skill Development and Petroleum Minister MoS (independent charge) Oil Natural Gas and Petroleum Ministry
Piyush Goyal Cabinet Minister Railway Ministry MoS (independent charge) Power Ministry
Nirmala Sitharaman Cabinet Minister Defence Ministry MoS (independent charge) Commerce and Industry Ministry
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Cabinet Minister Minority Affairs Ministry MoS (independent charge) Minority Affirs
Suresh Prabhu Cabinet Minister Commerce and Industry Ministry Railway Ministry
Uma Bharti Drinking Water and Sanitation Water Resources, River Development Ganga Rejuvenation.
Ashwini Kumar Choubey MoS Health & Family Welfare
Virendra Kumar MoS Women and Child Development and Minority Affairs
Anantkumar Hegde MoS Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Raj Kumar Singh MoS (independent charge) Power
Hardeep Singh Puri MoS (independent charge) Urban Development
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat MoS Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Satya Pal Singh MoS Human Resource Development and MoS Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
Alphons Kannanthanam MoS (independent charge) Tourism and MoS Ministry of Electronics & IT
Shiv Pratap Shukla MoS Finance Ministry
Santosh Kumar Gangwar MoS (independent charge) Labour and Employment MoS Finance Ministry
Preeti Singh

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