Modi Cabinet reshuffle UPDATES: Mansukh Mandaviya to be Health Minister

New Delhi: As many as 43 leaders took oath in the first Union Cabinet reshuffle and expansion on Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to power for a second term in May, 2019.

Ahead of Union Cabinet reshuffle and expansion, 12 Union Ministers including Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar and D.V. Sadananda Gowda have resigned from their posts of Council of Ministers. President Ram Nath Kovind, as advised by the Prime Minister, has accepted the resignation of 12 ministers.

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I congratulate all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wish them the very best for their ministerial tenure. We will continue working to fulfil aspirations of the people and build a strong and prosperous India. #Govt4Growth pic.twitter.com/AVz9vL77bO

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 7, 2021

28 Ministers inducted as Ministers of State including Meenakshi Lekhi, Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Patel, Shobha Karandlaje #CabinetExpansion2021 pic.twitter.com/JRcm09roY4

— ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2021

# Bhagwanth Khuba, Kapil Moreshwar Patil and Pratima Bhoumik take oath as ministers.

# BL Verma, Ajay Kumar, Chauhan Devusinh, take oath as ministers.

# A Narayanaswamy, Kaushal Kishore and Ajay Bhatt take oath as ministers.

# Meenakshi Lekhi, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Annpurna Devi, take oath as ministers.

# Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Shobha Karandlaje and Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma take oath as ministers.

# Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Singh Patel, and Satya Pal Singh Baghel take oath as ministers.

# Parshottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur take oath as ministers.

# Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav take oath as ministers.

# Pashupati Kumar Paras, Kiren Rijiju and Raj Kumar Singh take oath as ministers.

#CabinetExpansion2021 | Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ramachandra Prasad Singh, and Ashwini Vasihnaw take oath as ministers. pic.twitter.com/Q81EwDeJON

— ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2021

# Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ramachandra Prasad Singh, and Ashwini Vasihnaw take oath as ministers.

# Narayan Tatu Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Dr Virendra Kumar take oath as ministers, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

# President Ram Nath Kovind arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the swearing-in ceremony of 43 new ministers that will begin shortly.

# Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The swearing-in ceremony of 43 new ministers will begin shortly.

Here is the complete list of 43 leaders who, according to sources, will be sworn in as ministers today:

It is learnt from reliable sources that post-expansion, there will be 12 members from the SC community, including two in the cabinet; eight members will be from Scheduled Tribes in the Council of Ministers out of which three will be in the cabinet.

After cabinet expansion, the Modi government is expected to have 27 OBC leaders, out of which five will be in the cabinet.

Sources further informed that there will be a substantial increase in the number of professionals in the cabinet.

“Post expansion there will be 13 lawyers, six doctors, five engineers, and seven civil servants in total,” the sources said.