Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today sent a list of new members to the President Smt. Pratibha Patil requesting her to include them in the Union Cabinet.
Senior congress MP from Andhra Pradesh Mr V. Kishore Chandra Deo tops the list of new members to be included in the cabinet reshuffle that will take place this evening. Mr Deo will get Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj.
Minister of state with independent charge Mr Jairam Ramesh, who belongs to AP but was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka, was elevated to the cabinet rank. The PM has also recommended some ministers to be dropped from the cabinet and Mr A. Sai Pratap of AP is also one of them.
Following is the list of new members who will take oath this evening in the Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
New Cabinet Ministers:
V. Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Beni Prasad Verma : Steel
Dinesh Trivedi : Railways
Jairam Ramesh : Rural Development
New Ministers of State with Independent Charge:
Srikant Jena: Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Jayanthi Natarajan: Environment and Forests
Paban Singh Ghatowar : Development of North Eastern Region
Gurudas Kamat: Drinking Water and Sanitation
New Ministers of State
Sudip Bandopadhyaya : Health and Family Welfare
Charan Das Mahant : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Jitendra Singh: Home Affairs
Milind Deora : Communications and Information Technology
Rajiv Shukla: Parliamentary Affairs
Portfolios of following ministers were changed.
Vilasrao Deshmukh: Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
M. Veerappa Moily: Corporate Affairs
Anand Sharma: Commerce and Industry and additional charge of Textiles
P. K. Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources
Salman Khursheed: Law and Justice and additional charge of Minority Affairs
Ministers of State whose portfolios were changed.
E. Ahamed : External Affairs and Human Resource Development
V. Narayanasamy : Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Minister’s Office
Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs
Mukul Roy : Shipping
Ashwani Kumar : Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
The Prime Minister dropped the following minsiters from the Union Council of Ministers:
Dayanidhi Maran
Murli Deora
B. K. Handique
Dr. M. S. Gill
Kanti Lal Bhuria
A Sai Prathap
Arun. S. Yadav
