Significant faces like Narayan Rane, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Virendra Singh took oath as cabinet ministers.
43 new faces took oath as ministers in the cabinet rejig of the Modi Government taking the total list of the council to 77 ministers.
Significant faces like Narayan Rane, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Virendra Singh took oath as cabinet ministers.
1) Narayan Tatu Rane-
Was with Shiv Sena, after fallout joined Congress, was revenue minister, Left the Congress and formed Swabhiman Paksh but later merged it with the BJP. Narayan Rane is even considered BJP’s pointsman against Shiv Sena given the bitter history between him and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray
2) Sarbananda Sonowal
Former Assam CM. Had to vacate the post for Himanta Biswa Sarma. Strong regional leader being accommodated at the Centre.
3) Dr Virendra Kumar
BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh. Spent more than 20 years in Politics. Held the charge as Minister of State Ministry of Women and Child Development and Minority affairs from 2017 to 2019.
4) Jyotiraditya M Scindia
Left congress last year. Defected to BJP along with 22 other MLAs, paved way for BJP’s rule. Rewarded for delivering MP
5) Ramchandra Prasad Singh
A close aid of Nitish Kumar. JDU national president He is also a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Bihar since 2010. He was a UP cadre IAS officer before joining politics. He was also principal secretary of Nitish Kumar.
6) Ashwini Vaishnav
He is a BJP Rajya Sabha member from the state of Odisha since June 2019 and enjoys solid backing from the ruling BJD. The man is known to wear many hats. He is a 1994-batch IAS officer from Odisha cadre, known for his meticulous service when the state was hit by a super cyclone in 1999.
7) Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
Brother of Late Ram Vilas Paswan. Recently led a coup against him to become party president.
8) Kiren Rijiju
Minister of Sports
9) Raj Kumar Singh
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and a current Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Government of India. He is from Bihar and has been Home Secretary to Indian Govt
10) Hardeep Singh Puri
Current Minister of Civil Aviation
11) Mansukh Mandaviya
Minister of state State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways (Independent Charge) and Union Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilizers (India).
12) Bhupender Yadav
BJP leader from Rajasthan. Rajya Sabha MP. Expert on parliamentary select committees has earned him the title of “Committee Man”
13) Parshottam Rupala
Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
14) G. Kishan Reddy
MoS Home Affairs
15) Anurag Singh Thakur
MoS Finance
16) Pankaj Choudhary
Senior Member of BJP, MP From Uttar Pradesh and Has served in 6 consecutive Lok Sbahas
17) Anupriya Singh Patel
MP from Mirzapur, UP. President of Apna Dal which is an alliance partner of BJP.
18) Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
Another MP from Uttar Pradesh. Baghel became president of the BJP OBC Morcha in 2015
19) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
BJP MP from Karnataka and Technology Entrepreneur. Serves on several Parliament committees
20) Shobha Karandlaje
an MP from Malnad in Karnataka. She is BJP spokesperson. Known as prodigy of CM BS Yediyurappa and staunch Hindutva propagate. belongs to the politically influential Vokkaliga community in southern Karnataka.
21) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
5-time MP from Jalaun in UP
22) Darshana Vikram Jardosh
current member of the Lok Sabha representing the Surat constituency in Gujarat.
23) Meenakshi Lekhi
Spokesperson of BJP and MP from Delhi. One of the known faces and rose to prominence as Vice President of BJP’s Mahila Morcha. Supreme Court lawyer. Husband Aman Lekhi is ASG to the Govt of India
24) Annpurna Devi
Jharkhand BJP MP. Left RJD and contested on BJP ticket in 2019. Currently, national vice president of the party
25) A. Narayanaswamy
Dalit leader, is a four-time MLA and a former Karnataka minister.
26) Kaushal Kishore
Dalit leader from Lucknow. Has also served as Minister in Mulayam Singh Cabinet. Contested all the assembly elections as independent candidate before joining BJP
27) Ajay Bhatt
Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar MP is considered one of the seniormost leaders of the party in Uttarakhand. Defeated former CM and Congress senior leader Harish Rawat
28) B. L. Verma
Rajya Sabha MP, National vice president of the party’s OBC Morcha, is considered a close aide of former UP CM Kalyan Singh.
29) Ajay Kumar
First-term MP from UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri
30) Chauhan Devusinh
MP from Gujarat’s Kheda.
31) Bhagwanth Khuba
He is an Indian politician and who is representing the Member of Parliament of the Bidar lok sabha constituency.
32) Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Kapil Patil is politician from Bhiwandi, Thane, in Maharashtra state of India. He was Chairman of Thane District Co-operative Bank. He also worked as President of Thane Zilla Parishad. He moved from Nationalist Congress Party to Bharatiya Janata Party in March 2014.
33) Pratima Bhoumik
She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Tripura West as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was inducted into the present chief minister of Tripura Shri Biplab Kumar Deb’s team in January 2016 as State General Secretary
34) Dr. Subhas Sarkar
Dr. Subhas Sarkar is a doctor and Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Bankura, West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
35) Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
Dr Bhagwat Kisanrao Karad is a doctor and an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Maharashtra. He was the Mayor of Aurangabad twice. He is an organizational man of BJP from Maharashtra
36) Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and a current Minister of State in the Government of India. He is a Member of the Indian Parliament for Arrah, Bihar, since May 2014. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India
37) Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
She was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Dindori, Loksabha Constituency Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general elections
38) Bishweswar Tudu
He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Mayurbhanj, Odisha in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
39) Shantanu Thakur
Shantanu Thakur is an Indian politician, who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Bangaon since 2019. In the 2019 general election, he became the first non-TMC MP to be elected in this constituency since its delimitation when he was elected on BJP’s ticket. He is the son of ex-Bengal Minister Manjul Krishna Thakur.
40) Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
A member of parliament to the 17th Lok Sabha from Surendranagar Lok Sabha constituency, Gujarat. He won the 2019 Indian general election being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate
41) John Barla
He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Alipurduars, West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party
42) Dr. L. Murugan
Tamil Nadu BJP President.
43) Nisith Pramanik
He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Cooch Behar, West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of All India Trinamool Congress before joining the BJP in March 2019.
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