With 43 new ministers to be inducted into the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet today evening, Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javdekar, Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal and eight others have resigned.
The President of India has accepted the resignation of 12 members of the Council of Ministers including IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank and others, read a statement from the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The others to resign ahead of the oath-taking are Thawarchand Gehlot, D. V. Sadananda Gowda, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Babul Supriyo, Sanjay Dhotre, Rattan Kataria, Rattan Lal Kataria, Partap Chandra Sarangi and Debasree Chaudhuri.
Meanwhile, the new Cabinet is a mix of youth and those who come with rich administrative experience, including former chief ministers. There is also a good mix of experienced professionals with 13 lawyers, six doctors, five engineers, seven civil servants, seven with research degrees and three with degrees in business. It also cuts across castes and religions. Reportedly, there will be 27 OBC ministers, 12 from SC, 8 from ST categories. There will be one Muslim, one Sikh, one Christian and two Buddhist ministers.
Here's state-wise bifurcation of leaders to take oath today:
1) Narayan Tatu Rane - Maharashtra
2) Sarbananda Sonowal - Assam
3) Virendra Kumar - Madhya Pradesh
4) Jyotiraditya M Scindia - Madhya Pradesh
5) Ramchandra Prasad Singh - Bihar
6) Ashwini Vaishnaw - Odisha
7) Pashupati Kumar Paras - Bihar
8) Kiren Rijiju - Arunachal Pradesh
9) Raj Kumar Singh - Bihar
10) Hardeep Singh Puri - Uttar Pradesh
11) Mansukh Mandaviya - Gujarat
12) Bhupender Yadav - Rajasthan
13) Parshottam Rupala - Gujarat
14) G Kishan Reddy - Telangana
15) Anurag Singh Thakur - Himachal Pradesh
16) Pankaj Choudhary - Uttar Pradesh
17) Anupriya Singh Patel - Uttar Pradesh
18) Satya Pal Singh Baghel - Uttar Pradesh
19) Rajeev Chandrasekhar - Gujarat
20) Shobha Karandlaje - Karnataka
21) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma - Uttar Pradesh
22) Darshana Vikram Jardosh - Gujarat
23) Meenakashi Lekhi - New Delhi
24) Annpurna Devi - Jharkhand
25) A Narayanaswamy - Karnataka
26) Kaushal Kishore - Uttar Pradesh
27) Ajay Bhatt - Uttarakhand
28) BL Verma - Uttar Pradesh
29) Ajay Kumar - Uttar Pradesh
30) Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan - Gujarat
31) Bhagwanth Khuba - Karnataka
32) Kapil Moreshwar Patil - Maharashtra
33) Pratima Bhoumik - Tripura
34) Subhas Sarkar - West Bengal
35) Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad - Maharashtra
36) Rajkumar Ranjan Singh - Manipur
37) Bharati Pravin Pawar - Maharashtra
38) Bishweswar Tudu - Odisha
39) Shantanu Thakur - West Bengal
40) Munjapara Mahendrabhai - Gujarat
41) John Barla - West Bengal
42) L Murugan - Tamil Nadu
43) Nisith Pramanik - West Bengal