Cabinet Reshuffle Updates: 15 Ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet while 28 Ministers inducted as MoS

Modi's recent cabinet re-jig started off with the swearing-in ceremony of new Ministers. 15 Ministers were inducted into the Union Cabinet while 28 Ministers inducted as Ministers of State including Tamil Nadu BJP President L Murugan.

7: 30 PM: Tamil Nadu's BJP President L Murugan sworn-in as Minister.

7:20 PM: Bharati Pravin Pawar, Bishweswar Tudu and Shantanu Thakur, Subhas Sarkar, Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh sworn in as Ministers. Modi adds more women power to his cabinet with the recent re-jig

6:50 PM: Modi's cabinet adds more women ministers: Anupriya Singh Patel, Shobha Karandlaje, Meenakshi Lekhi, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Annapurna Devi, take oath as ministers.

6:30 PM: Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav, Parshottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur sworn-in as ministers. 

6:20 PM : Pashupati Kumar Paras, Kiren Rijiju and Raj Kumar Singh take oath as ministers.

6:00 PM: Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ramachandra Prasad Singh, and Ashwini Vasihnaw take oath as ministers.Narayan Tatu Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Dr Virendra Kumar take oath as ministers, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

5:45 PM: President Ram Nath Kovind arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the swearing-in ceremony of 43 new ministers that will begin shortly.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan. 

5:30 PM : The President of India accepts the resignation of 12 members of the Council of Ministers, including IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank and others, sources from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

Mean while, find below the list of probables likely to take oath today:

Following the resignations of other Union Ministers, Babul Supriyo, MoS Environment, Forest & Climate Change resigns from the Council of Ministers ahead of Union Cabinet reshuffle.

Those meeting Modi included BJP's Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Shobha Karandlaje, Sunita Duggal, Meenakshi Lekhi, Bharati Pawar, Shantanu Thakur and Kapil Patil, JD(U)'s R C P Singh, LJP's Pashupati Paras and Apna Dal's Anupriya Patel. 

Some ministers of state, including G Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala and Anurag Thakur, were also there, and they may be elevated, sources said. 

Sources added that around 43 persons, including those getting a promotion, may take oath, and they will be a mix of youth and those with administrative experience, including former chief ministers. 

Union ministers R K Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya and Hardeep Singh Puri may also be promoted, they said. 

BJP president J P Nadda was present during the meetings. 

The expansion exercise is scheduled to be held at 6 pm at Rashtrapati Bhawan. 

Amid the buzz that Modi may also drop some ministers, Union minister Santosh Gangwar and Minister of State for Women and Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri have quit. 

This will be the first reshuffle in his Council of Ministers by Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019. 

The prime minister is expected to bring in young faces and give representation to various social groups and regions in the reshuffle.