After a major reshuffle in the Modi cabinet, the government has now reconstituted the powerful cabinet committees. Ministers like Smriti Irani, Bhupender Yadav, and Sarbananda Sonowal are appointed as the new members of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affair.
According to a notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat, Union Ministers Arjun Munda, Virendra Kumar, Kiren Rijiju, and Anurag Thakur have been included in the new Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affair.
However, members of the Cabinet Committee on Security are Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
The two-member Appointments Committee of the Cabinet comprises the PM Mosi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
However, the reshuffled Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs comprises the prime minister, and Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, Pralhad Joshi, Sarbananda Sonowal, Giriraj Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya, and Bhupender Yadav.
Irani, Sonowal, Giriraj Singh, Mandaviya, and Yadav are the additions while former ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsh Vardhan are no longer part of it following their exclusion from the ministry.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has nine members which include PM Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, and Dharmendra Pradhan, according to the notification.
Earlier, former ministers D V Sadananda Gowda and Ravi Shankar Prasad were also part of this committee.
The members of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs are Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Arjun Munda, Narendra Singh Tomar, Pralhad Joshi, Kiren Rijiju, Virendra Kumar, and Anurag Thakur.
Union Ministers of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and V Muraleedharan are special invitees to the committee.
Earlier, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar were also part of it.
The reshuffled Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth comprises PM Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narayan Rane, and Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Rane, Scindia, and Vaishnaw are the new members.
The members of the Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development are PM Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hardeep Singh Puri, and Bhupender Yadav.
The special invitees to this committee are Nitin Gadkari, RCP Singh, and G Kishan Reddy.
Ashwini Vaishnaw and Bhupender Yadav are the new members while RCP Singh and G Kishan Reddy are new special invitees.
Earlier, former union ministers Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Santosh Kumar Gangwar and union minister Mahendra Nath Pandey were members of this committee while Smriti Irani and Prahalad Singh Patel were special invitees.
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