PM inducts 8 new faces
PM Manmohan Singh inducted V Kishore Chandra Deo and seven other new faces, and elevated three others including Jairam Ramesh from whom Environment and Forests has been taken away.
Dr Singh revamping his ministry,did not touch the 'big four' Finance, Home, Defence and External Affairs but shifted M Veerappa Moily from Law to Corporate Affairs and brought Salman Khursheed in his place.Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi has been elevated to the Cabinet rank and given the Railways portfolio left vacant by Mamata Banerjee after she became West Bengal Chief Minister.
Beni Prasad Verma becomes a Cabinet Minister for Steel, a portfolio he earlier held as Minister of State with Independent charge.The other new faces in the Council of Ministers are Jayanthi Natarajan who gets Environment and Forests, Dibrugarh MP Paban Singh Ghatowar (DONER), Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyaya (Health and Family Welfare), Alwar MP Jitendra Singh (Home), Milind Deora (Communication and IT) and Rajiv Shukla (Parliamentary Affairs).Ministers who have been dropped from the Cabinet are M S Gill (Statistics and Programme Implementation), B K Handique (DONER), Kantilal Bhuria (Tribal Affairs), Murli Deora (Corporate Affairs) and Dayanidhi Maran (Textiles).
While Maran had resigned last week in the wake of his being named in the 2G scam, Deora had offered his resignation citing old age.
The new ministers would be sworn in at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday evening after which the strength of the Council will go up by one to 68.
While there were eight additions, seven have been axed.
Ramesh, who was seen as a pro-active minister but often courted controversies by his handling of environmental issues, has been shifted to Rural Development in the Cabinet.Anand Sharma retains Commerce and Industry and Bansal retains Parliamentary Affairs.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal continues to hold additional charge of Telecom, while Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi retains additional charge of Civil Aviation.Telecom portfolio went to Sibal after DMK representative A Raja resigned on allegations in 2G spectrum allocation.No DMK representative was inducted on Tuesday as replacements for Raja and Maran.
Apparently, some of the portfolios have been kept as additional charges so that DMK can be accommodated if it chooses to send replacements.DMK is expected to decide on the issue at its General Council meeting on July 23-24 at Coimbatore.Veteran Parliamentarian from Andhra Pradesh V Kishore Chandra Deo makes his entry into the Cabinet for the first time, making him the second minister from the state after S Jaipal Reddy.Srikant Jena, got a promotion being given Independent charge of Statistics and Programme Implementation.However, he continues to be MoS in Chemicals and Fertilisers where DMK's M K Alagiri continues to be Cabinet minister.Jena was a Cabinet Minister in the United Front government of 1996-97.The lone Congress MP from Chhattisgarh Charan Das Mahant makes a debut as MoS in Agriculture and Food Processing.Gurudas Kamat has been shifted from Home and Communication ministries to a new ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation with Independent Charge.Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has been shifted to Science and Technology and Earth Sciences.Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed has been also been allocated the HRD portfolio.
Minsters of State V Narayanasamy and Ashwani Kumar shed Parliamentary Affairs portfolios which have gone to new entrant Rajiv Shukla and Harish Rawat, who retains MoS for Agriculture and Food Processing.
Minister of State for Shipping and Railways, Mukul Roy has been divested of the Railways portfolio.
Following is the list of new ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Council of Ministers:
CABINET MINISTERS
V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Beni Prasad Verma: Steel
Dinesh Trivedi: Railways
Jairam Ramesh: Rural Development
MINISTERS OF STATE (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
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
E Ahamed: External Affairs and Human Resource Development
V Narayanasamy: Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Ministers Office
Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs
Mukul Roy: Shipping
Ashwani Kumar: Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
Dr Singh revamping his ministry,did not touch the 'big four' Finance, Home, Defence and External Affairs but shifted M Veerappa Moily from Law to Corporate Affairs and brought Salman Khursheed in his place.Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi has been elevated to the Cabinet rank and given the Railways portfolio left vacant by Mamata Banerjee after she became West Bengal Chief Minister.
Beni Prasad Verma becomes a Cabinet Minister for Steel, a portfolio he earlier held as Minister of State with Independent charge.The other new faces in the Council of Ministers are Jayanthi Natarajan who gets Environment and Forests, Dibrugarh MP Paban Singh Ghatowar (DONER), Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyaya (Health and Family Welfare), Alwar MP Jitendra Singh (Home), Milind Deora (Communication and IT) and Rajiv Shukla (Parliamentary Affairs).Ministers who have been dropped from the Cabinet are M S Gill (Statistics and Programme Implementation), B K Handique (DONER), Kantilal Bhuria (Tribal Affairs), Murli Deora (Corporate Affairs) and Dayanidhi Maran (Textiles).
While Maran had resigned last week in the wake of his being named in the 2G scam, Deora had offered his resignation citing old age.
The new ministers would be sworn in at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday evening after which the strength of the Council will go up by one to 68.
While there were eight additions, seven have been axed.
Ramesh, who was seen as a pro-active minister but often courted controversies by his handling of environmental issues, has been shifted to Rural Development in the Cabinet.Anand Sharma retains Commerce and Industry and Bansal retains Parliamentary Affairs.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal continues to hold additional charge of Telecom, while Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi retains additional charge of Civil Aviation.Telecom portfolio went to Sibal after DMK representative A Raja resigned on allegations in 2G spectrum allocation.No DMK representative was inducted on Tuesday as replacements for Raja and Maran.
Apparently, some of the portfolios have been kept as additional charges so that DMK can be accommodated if it chooses to send replacements.DMK is expected to decide on the issue at its General Council meeting on July 23-24 at Coimbatore.Veteran Parliamentarian from Andhra Pradesh V Kishore Chandra Deo makes his entry into the Cabinet for the first time, making him the second minister from the state after S Jaipal Reddy.Srikant Jena, got a promotion being given Independent charge of Statistics and Programme Implementation.However, he continues to be MoS in Chemicals and Fertilisers where DMK's M K Alagiri continues to be Cabinet minister.Jena was a Cabinet Minister in the United Front government of 1996-97.The lone Congress MP from Chhattisgarh Charan Das Mahant makes a debut as MoS in Agriculture and Food Processing.Gurudas Kamat has been shifted from Home and Communication ministries to a new ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation with Independent Charge.Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has been shifted to Science and Technology and Earth Sciences.Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed has been also been allocated the HRD portfolio.
Minsters of State V Narayanasamy and Ashwani Kumar shed Parliamentary Affairs portfolios which have gone to new entrant Rajiv Shukla and Harish Rawat, who retains MoS for Agriculture and Food Processing.
Minister of State for Shipping and Railways, Mukul Roy has been divested of the Railways portfolio.
Following is the list of new ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Council of Ministers:
CABINET MINISTERS
V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Beni Prasad Verma: Steel
Dinesh Trivedi: Railways
Jairam Ramesh: Rural Development
MINISTERS OF STATE (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
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
E Ahamed: External Affairs and Human Resource Development
V Narayanasamy: Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Ministers Office
Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs
Mukul Roy: Shipping
Ashwani Kumar: Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
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