Cabinet expansion : 21 new ministers join NDA Government

Cabinet expansion : 21 new ministers join NDA Government

i. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his team on Sunday by appointing 21 new ministers, four of them in the Cabinet and three others as ministers of state with independent charge.

ii. Manohar Parrikar is the new Defence Minister and Suresh Prabhu will head the Railway Ministry Minister in the expansion-cum-reshuffle of the Narendra Modi ministry after 21 new Ministers were sworn-in on Sunday.

iii. Parrikar, who quit as Goa Chief Minister yesterday to join the Union Cabinet, takes over the charge from Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who held the Defence portfolio as an additional charge. 

iv. Interestingly, Jaitley has been given the additional charge of Information and Broadcasting Ministry. 


New Minister –
1. Manohar Parrikar – Defence Minister
2. Suresh Prabhu - Railway Minister
3. D V Sadananda Gowda - Law and Justice Minister
4. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology
5. Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare
6. Birender Singh - Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation
7. Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

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