Modi's new team: 9 new ministers took oath, 4 got promotions. Piyush Goyal New Railway Minister

New Delhi. Modi cabinet reshuffled 20 months before the 2019 Lok Sabha election 4 was promoted to the rank of cabinet minister After this, nine new leaders were sworn in as Minister of State. First Dharmendra Pradhan took oath in Hindi. The last minister to take oath was Alfons Kannathanam, who was made Minister of State. The program was attended by Cabinet members including President Ramnath Kovind, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj. The 9 new faces of the cabinet include Experts besides leaders of electoral states. JDU did not find a place in the cabinet Nitish Kumar had made it clear on Saturday that he had not spoken to them about the reshuffle nor did his MPs get any invitations.

These are 9 new ministers

1) Ahvini Kumar Chaubey (Bihar)

2) Shiv Pratap Shukla (UP)

3) Virendra Kumar (Madhya Pradesh)

4) Ananth Kumar Hegde (Karnataka)

5) Rajkumar Singh (Bihar)

6) Hardeep Singh Puri (Diplomat)

7) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan)

8) Satyapal Singh (UP)

9) Alfanes Kannanathnam (Kerala)

Piyush Goyal Became new Railway Minister:

Goyal replaces Suresh Prabhu who had offered to resign after a spate of train accidents in the last month.
Analysts said the BJP leadership felt Goyal has done a competent job in implementing reforms in the power and coal sectors.
Earlier on Sunday, Prabhu thanked all his railway ministry colleagues in a tweet.



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4 reasons for the shuffle

1) Lok Sabha elections: There are 20 months left in it. In view of this, the strategists of the BJP, the union and the government do not want to delay the reshuffle. They want the government and the organization to get a new team so that the Center can increase its governance and the party organization can focus on its election preparations.

2) Elections in 6 states: Elections in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka within the next year and a half. In view of this, this formula has been decided that ministers should be reduced from those states where elections have been held and new faces will be included in the government.

3) Performance: 4 ministers have been promoted and promoted as cabinet ministers, these steps have been raised keeping in view their performance.

4) Organization: There are some faces in government that can do good work in the organization. Such people will be sent back to the organization.

Now these are top-5

In the top 5 leaders of the government, the order of seniority is in this way: Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defense Finance Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu .

These 4 ministries need a full-time minister

- Defense: After returning Manohar Parrikar's CM as Goa, Arun Jaitley has an additional responsibility of the Defense Ministry.

- Environment: After the death of Rajya Sabha member Anil Madhav Dave, the additional charge of the Ministry of Environment has been given to Dr. Harshvardhan. He already has Science and Technology and Finance Science Ministry.

Urban Development: After becoming the Vice-President of M Venkaiah Naidu, the responsibility of the Urban Development Ministry was handed over to Narendra Singh Tomar, who is also a Rural Development Minister.

- Information Broadcast: Naidu had the responsibility of the Information and Technology Ministry, which has been given to Smriti Irani. Memorandum is also the minister of textiles.

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