It includes new faces like Jayanthi Natarajan, who gets environment and forests, Rajiv Shukla, who will be minister of state for parliamentary affairs, and Milind Deora, who will be minister of state for communications and IT.
In the long awaited reshuffle, Salman Khursheed gets law from M. Veerappa Moily, who has been made corporate affairs minister, Jairam Ramesh has been elevated from minister of state for environment to cabinet minister for rural development while Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi takes over as railway minister.
Beni Prasad Verma, who was minister of state for steel with independent charge, has been elevated as cabinet minister in charge of the same ministry. The other new cabinet minister is V. Kishore Chandra Deo, who will take care of tribal affairs and Panchayati Raj.
IUML's E. Ahamed is minister of state for external affairs and human resource development.
Congress leader Murli Deora has been dropped as corporate affairs minister. Instead, his son, Milind Deora, has come in.
The others, whose resignations have been forwarded with the recommendation that they be accepted, are DMK's Dayanidhi Maran as well as M.S. Gill, B.K. Handique, Kanti Lal Bhuria, A. Sai Prathap and Arun S. Yadav.
The Prime Minister has requested that the oath of office and secrecy be administered to the new ministers at 5.00pm today. The new ministers would be sworn in at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan after which the strength of the Council will go up by one to 68. Here is what the Prime Minister has written to the President
CABINET MINISTERS:
1. Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo
2. Shri Beni Prasad Verma
3. Shri Dinesh Trivedi
4. Shri Jairam Ramesh
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):
5. Shri Srikant Jena
6. Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan
7. Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar
8. Shri Gurudas Kamat
MINISTERS OF STATE:
9. Shri Sudip Bandopadhyaya
10. Shri Charan Das Mahant
11. Shri Jitendra Singh
12. Shri Milind Deora
13. Shri Rajiv Shukla
The Prime Minister has recommended the portfolios of the newly appointed Ministers may be as below:
CABINET MINISTERS:
Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo : Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Shri Beni Prasad Verma : Steel
Shri Dinesh Trivedi : Railways
Shri Jairam Ramesh : Rural Development
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) :
Shri Srikant Jena : Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan : Environment and Forests
Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar : Development of North Eastern Region
Shri Gurudas Kamat : Drinking Water and Sanitation
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