Modi Cabinet Rejig: In Major Reshuffle, PM Adds 12 Ministers from SC, 8 from ST, 27 from OBC

There is a major cabinet reshuffle happening in Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s second term. We will be witnessing the resignation of some of the top members. Among those who submitted their resignations are Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Ministers Santosh Gangwar.

It is going to be the youngest cabinet ever. Many from the SC, STs, and OBC were chosen. This time we also have more women than men. The entire list of reshuffled cabinets includes 27 ministers from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) and many from the Scheduled Caste communities. 12 ministers will be from Scheduled Caste and 8 from Scheduled Tribe. Along with them, we have 5 from the minorities section - 1 Muslim, 1 Sikh, 1 Christian 2 Buddhists.

Among those who resigned are Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Sadananda Gowda, Babul Supriyo, Santosh Gangwar, Sanjay Dhotre, Debasree Chaudhuri, Thawarchand Gehlot, Rattan Lal Kataria Pratap Chandra Sarangi (MoS), Ashwini Chaubey (MoS), and Raosaheb Patil (MoS).

List of Ministers who will take oath today

1. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

2. Bhagwanth Khuba

3. Kapil Moreshwar Patil

4. Pratima Bhoumik

5. Subhas Sarkar

6. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad

7. Shantanu Thakur

8. Bharati Pravin Pawar

9. Bishweswar Tudu

10. Munjapara Mahendrabhai

11. John Barla                           

12. L. Murugan

13. Nisith Pramanik

14. Pankaj Choudhary

15. Anupriya Singh Patel

16. Satya Pal Singh Baghel

17. Rajeev Chandrasekhar

18. Shobha Karandlaje

19. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

20. Darshana Vikram Jardosh

21. Meenakashi Lekhi

22. Annpurna Devi

23. Narayanaswamy

24. Kaushal Kishore

25. Ajay Bhatt

26. B. L. Verma

27. Ajay Kumar

28. Chauhan Devusinh

29. Narayan Tatu Rane

30. Sarbananda Sonowal

31. Virendra Kumar

32. Jyotiraditya M Scindia

33. Bhupender Yadav

34. Ramchandra Prasad Singh

35. Ashwini Vaishnaw

36. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras

37. Kiren Rijiju

38. Raj Kumar Singh

39. Hardeep Singh Puri

40. Mansukh Mandaviya

41. Parshottam Rupala

42. G. Kishan Reddy

43. Anurag Singh Thakur