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Know your Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

New Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet.

News Nation Bureau | Updated : 09 November 2014, 08:47:58 PM
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet!

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet!

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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a prominent Muslim face of the BJP, stages a comeback to the Union Council of Ministers, 15 years after his stint as MoS Information and Broadcasting in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet!

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet!

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Babul Supriyo may not have achieved the stardom he would have aspired as a singer but his political career has taken off big time as the first-time MP was inducted as a minister in the Narendra Modi government today.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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A prominent leader of the saffron party in undivided Andhra Pradesh, Bandaru Dattatreya rose through the ranks from being a full-time RSS pracharak to become the lone representative of the new state of Telangana in the Union Cabinet.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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A pilot-cum-politician, Rajiv Pratap Rudy returns to the Union Council of Ministers riding on BJP’s success in the assembly polls in Maharastra after the articulate leader played a key role in the party’s victory in the politically crucial state.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Jayant Sinha, son of BJP veteran and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, is a member of the Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Ram Kripal Yadav, once a close aide of Lalu Prasad and known as “Hanuman” of the RJD chief for remaining by his side in good and bad times, had rebelled to join BJP just before Lok Sabha polls.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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From being a medical practitioner to winning the Lok Sabha elections this year from Gautam Budh Nagar in UP, it has been a long journey for Mahesh Sharma who took oath as Ministers of State (Independent Charge) in the Narendra Modi government.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Giriraj Singh, who is known for his fiery and at times controversial statements, has found a berth in the Narendra Modi ministry as a representative of Bhumihars, who backed the party in Bihar and felt let down due to lack of representation in the Council
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Vijay Sampla, who was once a plumber, scaled new heights today with his induction in the Narendra Modi ministry that is apparently aimed at 2017 Assembly polls in Punjab where the BJP hopes to play the Dalit card to woo the Scheduled Caste community.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhari, who stormed the traditional Congress bastion of Banaskantha 16 years ago and maintained a strong hold over it winning the Lok Sabha seat four times, bagged a ministerial berth at the Centre.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Former Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu formally joined the BJP before being sworn in as Cabinet Minister in the first expansion of the Narendra Modi government.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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The proverbial slip between cup and lip had haunted Haryana Jat leader Birender Singh who first lost to Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the battle for Haryana Chief Minister’s chair in 2004 and was then denied a Cabinet berth in Manmohan Singh government in 20
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and former Shiv Sainik Suresh Prabhu were on Sunday inducted into the Union Cabinet and given Defence and Railway portfolios respectively as Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook an expansion of his council of m
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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The 59-year-old professor-turned politician has been a five-time MLA and till recently held the Water Resources portfolio in Rajasthan government.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Sworn in as a Minister of State, 63-year old Kundariya had also enjoyed the same rank in 2001-02 under Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat. Kundariya was then the MoS for Rural Development and became a wel
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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BJP MP Hansraj Gangaram Ahir got his birthday gift two days earlier with his induction in the Narendra Modi ministry on Sundary in apparent recognition of his role in relentlessly highlighting irregularities in coal allocation that brought the previous UP
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Ram Shankar Katheria: A Ph.D holder and a writer with books on social issues and Dalit upliftment, among others, Dr Ram Shankar Katheria's elevation as a Minister of State in the BJP-led Union government is being seen as a move which would help the party
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Having excelled in shooting ranges, ace marksman Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has now hit target in the political arena as well, getting a berth in the Narendra Modi government as a Minister of State in his maiden stint as an MP.
Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

Know your new Ministers in PM Modi’s Cabinet

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Y S Chowdary, a Rajya Sabha member from TDP.
Know your Ministers in PM Modi's new Cabinet

Know your Ministers in PM Modi's new Cabinet

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Jagat Prakash Nadda, 54, who has his roots in the RSS and its affiliates, was Sunday inducted into the union cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Know your Ministers in PM Modi's new Cabinet

Know your Ministers in PM Modi's new Cabinet

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Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: The BJP MP from Fatehpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

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