New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office tweets: The additional charge of the Ministry of I&B has been given to @smritiirani.

Union minister for Textiles Smriti Irani will take over the I&B portfolio from Venkaiah Naidu who resigned from the post after being named as the vice-presidential candidate of the ruling NDA coalition.

Naidu is also the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi administration.

Naidu also resigned as Urban Development Minister and that ministry will now be led by Narendra Singh Tomar. Tomar, who's already rural development minister also gets urban development as an additional charge.

Tomar is currently the Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and Irani is the incumbent Minister for Textiles.

In a Cabinet reshuffle in 2016, both the Union Ministers lost their portfolios. Irani was replaced by Prakash Javedekar as the HRD Minister and Piyush Goyal replaced Tomar and was given additional charge of Minister of Mines.

PM Modi on Monday took to twitter to congratulate Naidu over his selection.