New Delhi: In what could be the last reshuffle of the Union council of ministers before the next Lok Sabha polls in 2014, seven Cabinet ministers and 15 Ministers of State were sworn-in on Sunday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expanded his Council of Ministers. Meanwhile, Salman Khurshid has been named as new External Affairs Minister.
Veerappa Moily has moved to the Petroleum Ministry from Corporate Affairs and Jyotiraditya Scindia is now Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power. Sachin Pilot has been named as Minister of State in Corporate Affairs with Independent charge. Pawan Kumar Bansal is new Railways Minister and Jaipal Reddy is new Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences. Jitendra Singh is new MoS (independent charge) Youth Affairs & Sports.
President Pranab Mukherjee administered the oath of office to those inducted into the Council of Ministers.
Of the seven new Cabinet ministers, two are new faces - former Rajya Sabha deputy chairman K Rahman Khan and Lok Sabha MP Chandresh Kumari Katoch.
The remaining five - Ajay Maken, Dinsha Patel, MM Pallam Raju, Harish Rawat and Ashwani Kumar - were ministers of state.
Shashi Tharoor has returned to the Council after a gap of two years.
Barring Tariq Anwar, who belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party, the remaining 14 are from the Congress.
Earlier, seven ministers had stepped down to make way for newer faces.
Here's the list of ministers who sworn-in on Sunday:
Cabinet ministers
K Rahman Khan gets Minority Affairs
Dinsha Patel promoted as Cabinet Minister in Mines Ministry
Ajay Maken elevated to Cabinet, gets Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
MM Pallam Raju upgraded and made Minister of Human Resource Development
Ashwani Kumar elevated to Cabinet, gets Law Ministry
Harish Rawat made Water Resources Minister
Chandresh Kumari Katoch is new Culture Minister
Ministers of State (Independent charge)
Manish Tewari is MoS information and broadcasting
Telugu actor K Chiranjeevi gets the Tourism Ministry
Ministers of State
Shashi Tharoor back as Minister of State
Kodikunnil Suresh
NCP's Tariq Anwar is Minister of State for Agriculture
K Jayasuyraprakash Reddy
Ranee Narah, the head of Women's cricket association of India
West Bengal Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Malda Congress MP Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
S Satyanarayana
Ninong Ering is minister of state
West Bengal Congress leader Deepa Dasmunshi
Telangana leader Porika Balram Naik
Andhra Pradesh MP, Dr Smt Kruparani Killi
Rajashtan MP Lalchand Kataria
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