Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur among 37 ministers dropped from Modi Cabinet
Nineteen ministers from the outgoing Cabinet, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nirmala Sitharaman, were retained.
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Thirty-seven National Democratic Alliance leaders, including prominent names like Smriti Irani and Anurag Singh Thakur, were on Sunday dropped from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Union Council of Ministers.
Modi on Sunday took oath as the prime minister for the third consecutive term at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Along with him, the 72-member Union Council of Ministers was administered the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu.
The council included 30 Cabinet ministers, five ministers of state (independent charge) and 36 ministers of state. The ministerial portfolios are expected to be announced on Monday.
From the outgoing Cabinet, 19 ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari and S Jaishankar, were retained.
Others who made a return are Piyush Goyal, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pralhad Joshi, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Giriraj Singh, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Kiren Rijiju, Bhupender Yadav and G Kishan Reddy.
Among those who were dropped are Arjun Munda, who was the minister of tribal affairs and minister of agriculture and farmers welfare, Parshottam Rupala, who was the minister of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, and Narayan Tatu Rane, who was the minister of micro, small and medium enterprises.
Irani was the minister of women and child development and minister of...
