Modi Cabinet Expansion: 43 ministers to sworn in today, check out complete list

As many as 43 new ministers will take oath today as Prime Minister Narendra Modi expands his cabinet. PM’s new cabinet will be one of the most inclusive with a considerable representation of SC, ST members.

As per the sources, there will be 12 members from the SC community including two in the cabinet and eight from ST out of which three will be in the cabinet. Post-expansion, Modi's government will have about 27 OBC leaders and of these five will be in the cabinet.

In the cabinet reshuffle, there will be several new entrants along with the existing minister who will be reassigned. The reshuffle comes as the Modi administration was heavily criticized over the handling of second wave of coronavirus pandemic.

Many top ministers including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, were renounced. Where education and labor ministries are also expected to change, it is unlikely that the ‘big four’ ministers for finance, foreign affairs, home minister and defense will change.

As per government sources, Prime Minster intended to include younger members of his party to be ministers. PM also aimed at giving greater representation to women and backward classes which is a notable step ahead of major state elections starting with UP.

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Due to coronavirus risk, a small ceremony with fewer guests will be held in Rashtrapati Bhavan at 6 pm on Wednesday. Here’s a list of all 43 ministers to be sworn in today.

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