12 Union Ministers Resign: Some Big Names In It

Ahead of the central cabinet reshuffle, 12 ministers have resigned and the President of India, Ramnath Kovind has approved their resignation. However, there are some big names like Ravi Shankar Prasad, the IT minister who always stays in headlines, Dr. Harsha Vardhan, the health minister. There is seriously a bold move by PM Modi.

Here is the full list:

1. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
2. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister of Human Resource Development
3. Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
4. Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
5. Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Woman and Child Development
6. Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology
7. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
8. Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change
9. Pratap Sarangi, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
10. Rattan Lal Kataria, Minister of State for Jal Shakti
11. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications
12. Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

Modi has included 43 new faces in his new cabinet and we have to see who gets these above portfolios. There are some high profile portfolios.

Here is the list of ministers who took oath today for their new departments:

1. Narayan Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashupati Paras
8. Kiren Rijiju
9. Raj Kumar Singh
10. Hardeep Singh Puri
11. Mansukh Mandaviya
12. Bhupender Yadav
13. Parshottam Rupala
14. G. Kishan Reddy
15. Anurag Singh Thakur
16. Pankaj Choudhary
17. Anupriya Singh Patel
18. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
19. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
20. Shobha Karandlaje
21. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
22. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
23. Meenakshi Lekhi
24. Annapurna Devi
25. A. Narayanaswamy
26. Kaushal Kishore
27. Ajay Bhatt
28. B. L. Verma
29. Ajay Kumar
30. Chauhan Devusinh
31. Bhagwanth Khuba
32. Kapil Moreshwar Patil
33. Pratima Bhoumik
34. Dr. Subhas Sarkar
35. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
36. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
37. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
38. Bishweswar Tudu
39. Shantanu Thakur
40. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
41. .John Barla
42. Dr. L. Murugan
43. Nisith Pramanik