New Delhi: In a development which comes just a day before the Karnataka election results, the Modi government on Monday made Rajyavardhan Rathore the new Information and broadcasting minister and gave Piyush Goyal additional charge of the finance ministry.Railways minister Goyal will handle the finance portfolio till Arun Jaitley recovers. Jaitley underwent a successful kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today and is stable after the over four-hour-long surgery, hospital authorities said.
S S Ahluwalia, who was until recently the Minister of State for Drinking Water & Sanitation, has been assigned the portfolio of Ministry of State in the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, an official release from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
"Alphons Kannanthanam, Minister of State be relieved of the charge of Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology," the release added.