Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reshuffle his Council of Ministers today. The swearing-in ceremony of new ministers will take place at Rashtrapati Bhawan at 10:30 in the morning.
Ahead of Cabinet reshuffle, several ministers have resigned to facilitate the reshuffle. Latest among them to put in his papers is Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra.
Earlier, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Bandaru Dattatreya, Sanjeev Balyan, Mahendra Nath Pandey and Faggan Singh Kulaste had resigned from their posts.
According to the Sources, nine new ministers including former IFS officer Hardeep Puri, former Mumbai Police chief Satyapal Singh and former IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam will be inducted into the Union Council of Ministers.
Sources said that Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla, Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar, Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka Anant Kumar Hegde, Lok Sabha MP from Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Lok Sabha MP from Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey and Raj Kumar Singh will also take oath today.
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