Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur among 37 Ministers dropped from Modi Cabinet
The Hindu
Smriti Irani and Anurag Thakur are among 37 Ministers who have been dropped from the govt in PM Modi’s third term. Eighteen of the dropped Ministers had lost the Lok Sabha elections
As many as 37 Ministers have been dropped from the government in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term and these include seven with Cabinet rank — prominent among them being Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur and Narayan Rane.
Parshottam Rupala, Arjun Munda, R.K. Singh and Mahendra Natha Pandey, also held Cabinet positions in the second Modi government but were not retained in the Council of Ministers that took oath on June 9. While all three Ministers with Independent Charge have been retained, out of 42 Ministers of State, 30 have been dropped.
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Those who have not been repeated include V.K. Singh, Faggansingh Kulaste, Ashwini Choubey, Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Sanjeev Balyan, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Subhas Sarkar, Nisith Pramanik, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh and Pratima Bhoumik.
Meenakshi Lekhi, Munjapara Mahendrabhai, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Kailash Choudhary, Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Bharati Pravin Pawar, Kaushal Kishore, Bhagwanth Khubha and V. Muraleedharan have also not been retained.
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, John Barla, Bishweswar Tudu, Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Devusinh Chauhan, Ajay Bhatt, A. Narayanaswamy, Som Parkash, Rameswar Teli and Darshana Vikram Jardosh have also not made it to the new Council of Ministers.
Eighteen of the dropped Ministers had lost the elections. L. Murugan is the only Minister of State from the previous government who lost the election but has been retained. He is already a member of the Rajya Sabha.
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