Cabinet Reshuffle: UP gets 7 ministerial berths, Gujarat 5, K'taka & WB 4

Cabinet Reshuffle: UP gets 7 ministerial berths, Gujarat 5, K'taka & WB 4

New Delhi: Poll-bound Uttar Pradesh took a lion's share followed by Gujarat amongst 43 Members of Parliament who took oath as ministers in the swearing-in ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday.

As expected seven and five Members of Parliament respectively from Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat took oath as ministers. The new council of ministers being hailed as a pool of 'young, workaholic and technocratic candidates'.

Seven ministers, currently holding independent and state ministers' rank, have been elevated to the Cabinet. In a fast paced political developments today, 11 ministers resigned from the Modi Cabinet. Union Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot had submitted his resignation on Tuesday.

Statewise List of New Ministers:

Uttar Pradesh

Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal)

Pankaj Chowdhary

S. P. Singh Baghel

Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

Kaushal Kishore

BL Verma

Ajay Kumar Mishra

Gujarat

Mansukh Mandaviya

Purushottam Rupala

Darshana Jardosh

Munjapara Mahendrabhai

Devusinha Chauhan 

Karnataka

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

A Narayanaswamy

Shobha Karndlaje

Bhagawant Khooba

West Bengal

Shantanu Thakur 

Subhas Sarkar

Nisith Pramanik  

John Barla

Maharashtra 

Bharati Pawar

Narayan Rane

Kapil Patil

Bhagwat Karad

Bihar 

RCP Singh (JDU)

Pashupati Paras (LJP)

Raj Kumar Singh

Madhya Pradesh 

Dr. Virendra Kumar

Jyotiraditya Scindia

Odisha 

Ashwini Vaishnav

Bishweswar Tudu

Arunachal Pradesh

Kirin Rijiju

Assam

Sarbananda Sonowal

Rajasthan

Bhupender Yadav

New Delhi

Meenakshi Lekhi

Jharkhand

Annapurna Devi 

Punjab

Hardeep Singh Puri

Tripura

Pratima Bhaumik

Manipur

Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

Telangana

G Kishan Reddy

Himachal Pradesh 

Anurag Thakur

Uttarakhand

Ajay Bhatt

Tamil Nadu

L Murgan