July 12, 2011 1:08 PM

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PM reshuffles cabinet; few new faces inducted

Congress leaders V Kishore Chandra Deo, Jayanti Natarajan and Pawan Singh Ghatwar, Milind Deora, Rajeev Shukla, Charandas Mahant and Jeetendra Singh are the new faces in the Council of Ministers to be sworn in this evening. Resignations of Textiles Minister Dayinidhi Maran and Dr. M S Gill have been forwarded to President for acceptance. Three Ministers of State Beni Prasad Verma, Dinesh Trivedi and Jairam Ramesh have been elevated to the Cabinet rank.According to a Press Release issued by the PMO Dinesh Trivedi of Trinamool Congress is to succeed Ms. Mamta Benerjee in Railways, Kishore Chandra Dev gets Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj and Jairam Ramesh Rural Development. Portfolios of five Ministers have been changed.While Salman Khursheed is being given Law and Justice besides Minority Affairs, Vilasrao Deshmukh is being shifted to Science and Technologyand Earth Sciences. M Veerappa Moily is the new Cabinet Minister for Corporate Affairs, Anand Sharma , Commerce and Industry; and additional charge of Textiles P K Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources.E Ahmed will be Minister of state for Human ResourceDevelopment besides External Affairs .Srikant Jena with Independent charge will hold the charge of chemicals and fertilizers in addition to Statistics and programme implementation,Gurdas Kamat gets drinking water sanitation. V Narayanasamy Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Minister’s Office ,Harish Rawat, Agriculture and Food Processing,Industries and Parliamentary Affairs Mukul Roy , Shipping Ashwani Kumar, Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences. Resignations of other ministers whose resignations have been forwarded for acceptance are ,Murli Deora,B K Handique, and Kanti Lal Bhuria A Sai Prathap Arun S Yadav. There is no change in the major Ministeries. Pranab Mukherjee continues to hold Finance, P Chidambarm, home, A K Antony Deffence and S M Krishana, External affairs minister.Kapil Sibal will continue to hold Human Resource Devolpment in addition to IT .The new Ministers will be administered the oath of office and secrecy at Rashtrapati Bhawan at 5 PM.

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