While some ministers will be elevated, many will have to face the axe. Senior Ministers Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Manohar Parrikar and Sushma Swaraj will retain their Cabinet posts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mid-term expansion is taking place with 19 new ministers taking the oath in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Prakash Javadekar, who currently serves as MoS Environment, has been elevated to the Cabinet rank. Senior Ministers Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Manohar Parrikar and Sushma Swaraj will retain their Cabinet posts.
The first expansion had occurred in November 2014. There are currently 64 Union ministers, including the Prime Minister, and there can be a maximum of 82 of them under a constitutional bar.
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