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

Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

Bhagwanth Khuba

Kapil Moreshwar Patil

Pratima Bhoumik

Subhas Sarkar

Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad

Shantanu Thakur

Bharati Pravin Pawar

Bishweswar Tudu

Munjapara Mahendrabhai

John Barla                           

L. Murugan

Nisith Pramanik

Pankaj Choudhary

Anupriya Singh Patel

Satya Pal Singh Baghel

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Shobha Karandlaje

Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

Darshana Vikram Jardosh

Meenakashi Lekhi

Annpurna Devi

Narayanaswamy

Kaushal Kishore

Ajay Bhatt

B. L. Verma

Ajay Kumar

Chauhan Devusinh

Narayan Tatu Rane

Sarbananda Sonowal

Virendra Kumar

Jyotiraditya M Scindia

Bhupender Yadav

Ramchandra Prasad Singh

Ashwini Vaishnaw

Pashu Pati Kumar Paras

Kiren Rijiju

Raj Kumar Singh

Hardeep Singh Puri

Mansukh Mandaviya

Parshottam Rupala

G. Kishan Reddy

Anurag Singh Thakur