Breaking: Kiren Rijiju Is The New Union Minister For Law And Justice

Kiren Rijiju is appointed as the new Union Minister for Law and Justice after the Cabinet reshuffle. He replaced Ravi Shankar Prasad, who resigned from Union Government.

Rijiju is a Law Graduate from Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

PM Modi has kept the Ministry of Science & Technology with himself, whereas, Amit Shah has also got additional charge of Ministry of Cooperation in addition to Home Ministry

Ashwini Vaishnaw is the New Minister For IT and Communication & Railway.

Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice.

Mansukh Mandaviya to be Union Minister for Health and Chemical and Fertilisers

Jyotiraditya Scindia to monitor Civil Aviation ministry

Piyush Goyal gets the Textile Ministry

Hardeep Singh Puri to head Petroleum Ministry

Anurag Thakur gets Sports, Youth Affairs and I&B

Meenakshi Lekhi to be the MoS, External Affairs

Dharmendra Pradhan is the new Education Minister

Giriraj Singh to head Ministry of Rural Development

Smriti Irani to be the Woman and Child Development Minister

Bhupender Yadav to take charge of Labor Ministry

Pashupati Paras gets Ministry of Food Processing Industries

Sarbananda Sonowal to monitor Ports, Shipping and waterways, and Ministry of AYUSH

The President earlier today accepted the resignations of 11 other Union ministers, including Prakash Javadekar, DV Sadananda Gowda, Thaawarchand Gehlot, Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Santosh K Gangwar, Babul Supriyo, Dhotre S Shamrao, Rattan Lal Kataria, Pratap C Sarangi, Debasree Chaudhuri.

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