PM Modi congratulates new ministers who took oath as part of major cabinet reshuffle

In his message, he wrote: "I congratulate all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wish them the very best for their ministerial tenure. We will continue working to fulfil aspirations of the people and build a strong and prosperous India. #Govt4Growth."

In a major reshuffle of the PM Narendra Modi-led Cabinet, 43 new ministers took oath on Wednesday.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Several young leaders were added to the new team that will be led by Modi.

PM Modi now has 77 ministers, with nearly half of them new. Anurag Thakur and Hardeep Puri are among 15 new cabinet ministers.

Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narayan Rane, Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw were also sworn in as cabinet ministers.

Of the old portfolio holders, Harsh Vardhan was sacked as the health minister following the second wave of Covid which engulfed the nation, exposing its inadequate health infrastructure.

What came as a shock was the resignation of Ravi Shankar Prasad as Minister for Law and Electronics and IT, who has been seen to be in the core team of the government's troubleshooters.

Like Prasad, Prakash Javadekar also resigned, who was among the few who were ministers even in the previous BJP government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

This is PM Modi's first and major reshuffle of the Union Cabinet since he took office for a second term in 2019.

Here is a full list of ministers who took oath today:

CABINET MINISTERS:

1.  Shri Narayan Tatu Rane

2.  Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

3.  Dr. Virendra Kumar

4. Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia

5.  Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh

6. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

7. Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras

8. Shri Kiren Rijiju

9. Shri Raj Kumar Singh

10. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri

11. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya

12. Shri Bhupender Yadav

13. Shri Parshottam Rupala

14. Shri G. Kishan Reddy

15. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur

MINISTERS OF STATE:

1. Shri Pankaj Choudhary

2. Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel

3. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel

4. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

5. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje

6. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

7. Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh

8. Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi

9. Smt. Annpurna Devi

10. Shri A. Narayanaswamy

11. Shri Kaushal Kishore

12. Shri Ajay Bhatt

13. Shri B. L. Verma

14. Shri Ajay Kumar

15. Shri Chauhan Devusinh

16. Shri Bhagwanth Khuba

17. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil

18. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik

19. Dr. Subhas Sarkar

20. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad

21. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

22. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar

23. Shri Bishweswar Tudu

24. Shri Shantanu Thakur

25. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai

26. Shri John Barla

27. Dr. L. Murugan

28. Shri Nisith Pramanik