Prime Minister reshuffles his Cabinet
India Blooms News Service
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IBNS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday gave a new look to his Cabinet by effecting a reshuffle in the portfolios including two key changes in the economic ministries-Petroleum and Surface Transport.
Murli Deora was shifted from Petroleum to Corporate Affairs Ministry, while Praful Patel has to shift from Civil Aviation to Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
Jaipal Reddy became the new Oil Minister, while Kamal Nath took charge of Urban Development Ministry, leaving Surface Transport.
However, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister AK Antony, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Foreign Minister SM Krishna continued with their present portfolios.
List of Cabinet Ministers and their new portfolios:
Praful Patel: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Shriprakash Jaiswal: Coal Ministry
Salman Khursheed: Water Resources and additional charge of Minority Affairs
Minister of State (Independent Charge):
Ajay Maken: Youth Affairs and Sports
Beni Prasad Verma: Steel
Professor KV Thomas: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Ministers of state:
Ashwani Kumar: Planning and Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
KC Venugopal: Power
Ministers whose portfolios have been changed/ dropped:
Cabinet ministers:
Sharad Pawar: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Virbhadra Singh: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Vilasrao Deshmukh: Rural Development and additional charge of Panchayati Raj
S Jaipal Reddy: Petroleum and Natural Gas
Kamal Nath: Urban Development
Vayalar Ravi: Overseas Indian Affairs and additional charge of Civil Aviation
Murli Deora: Corporate Affairs
Kapil Sibal: Human Resource Development and additional charge of Communications and Information Technology
BK Handique: Development of North-Eastern Region
CP Joshi: Road Transport and Highways
Kumari Selja: Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and additional charge of Culture
Subodh Kant Sahay: Tourism
MS Gill: Statistics and Programme Implementation
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
Minister of State (Independent Charge):
Dinsha Patel: Mines
Ministers of State:
E Ahamed: External Affairs
Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
V Narayanasamy: Parliamentary Affairs and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office
Gurudas Kamat: Home Affairs
A Sai Prathap: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Bharatsinh Solanki: Railways
Jitin Prasada: Road Transport and Highways
Mahadev S Khandela: Tribal Affairs
RPN Singh: Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs
Tusharbhai Chaudhary: Road Transport and Highways
Arun Yadav: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Pratik Prakashbapu Patil: Coal
Vincent Pala: Water Resources and Minority Affairs
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