GUWAHATI July 07: The cabinet reshuffle took place after around a month-long reflection which after PM Modi holding meetings as soon as the covid-19 cases started to decline’s in the country with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP National President JP Nadda in the national capital. The PM also avaluate the performance of different ministries. The reshuffle comes keeping in mind the future political challenges including assembly elections due next year
The names in the cabinet reshuffle include several new entrants as well as existing ministers who will be reassigned.
In an unexpected move, Ravi Shankar Prasad, who held key portfolios of law and information technology, and Prakash Javadekar, the minister for environment, information and broadcasting and heavy industries, stepped down including others 12 Minister’s in total.
Also among the top ministers who were asked resign was Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, paying the political price for the government’s struggles to cope with a devastating second wave of coronavirus infections.
Whereas12 ministers have resigned including prominent ones like Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and junior Environment Minister Babul Supriyo.
In modi’s cabinet inducted new 43 Minister’s name list are
From Northeast india Shri Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam)and Shri Kirin rijuju (Arunachal Pradesh) are inducted in the Modi’s cabinet.
Shri Sarbananda Sonowal who was an Ex-Chief Minister of Assam since 2016, resigned on 09 May 2021 after the declaration of Assam legislative Assembly election replacing Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is also inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Cabinet on Wednesday.
Sonowal was chief minister of the BJP-led Assam government. Even though the BJP-led alliance returned to power in 2021, Sonowal was not made chief minister and was replaced by Himanta Biswa Sarma
Sonowal was the Union sports minister in the Modi government from 2014 to 2016, before taking charge as the chief minister of Assam
He had earlier served as Union Minister of State (Independent charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Sports and Youth Affairs under PM Narendra Modi.
During his reigned Sonowal has done tremendous work’s towards the fields of prosperity for Assam
Starting in student politics, he has been in public life for 3 decades. Sonowal has owned an LLB from Guwahati University.
Kiren Rijiju too inducted in Modi’s cabinet who hails from Nafra district 49 old,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rijiju is the current Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs of India.
Kiren Rijiju, the BJP’s most perceptible face in the Northeast, was elevated on Wednesday in Team Modi 2.0.
Rijiju, who was earlier Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports and Ayush and Minister of State, Minority Affairs, is a Lok Sabha member from Arunachal West constituency.
Known for his political manoeuvre that helped the BJP make inroads into the state which was ruled by the Congress since its inception, Rijiju was born on November 19, 1971, in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. He studied at Delhi’s Hansraj College and also obtained a Law degree from the University of Delhi. He is married to Joram Rina, a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi.
Kiren Rijiju first contested the 2004 Lok Sabha election from Arunachal West constituency and won. Although he lost the 2009 Lok Sabha elections by a small margin of 1,314 votes, Rijiju again won the seat in 2014 after which he was accommodated as the Minister of state for Home in the cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Kiren Rijiju defeated former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki by a margin of 1,74,843 votes. While he got 63.02 per cent votes, Tuki could get only 14.22 per cent of votes.
Known as one of the most active parliamentarians, Rijiju is also a fitness freak and has widely travelled around the world.