Seven Ministers of State have been elevated to the rank of Cabinet Ministers

In a major reshuffle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet, 43 members including 36 new faces were appointed to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. They include 15 Ministers of Cabinet rank and 28 Ministers of State.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to the members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated all the members who took oath.

"I congratulate all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wish them the very best for their ministerial tenure. We will continue working to fulfil aspirations of the people and build a strong and prosperous India," said PM Modi on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1412790504903827459?s=19

Earlier in the day, 12 members of the Council of Ministers, including Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Hash Vardhan, submitted their resignations.

There are eight new faces in the Union Cabinet:

1. Narayan Tatu Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
8. Bhupender Yadav

In addition to this, seven Ministers of State were elevated to Cabinet rank. They are:

1. Kiren Rijiju
2. Raj Kumar Singh
3. Hardeep Singh Puri
4. Mansukh Mandaviya
5. Parshottam Rupala
6. G. Kishan Reddy
7. Anurag Singh Thakur

The 28 new Ministers of State are:

1. Pankaj Choudhary
2. Anupriya Singh Patel
3. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
4. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
5. Shobha Karandlaje
6. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
7. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
8. Meenakshi Lekhi
9. Annpurna Devi
10. A Narayanaswamy
11. Kaushal Kishore
12. Ajay Bhatt
13. BL Verma
14. Ajay Kumar
15. Chauhan Devusinh
16. Bhagwanth Khuba
17. Kapil Moreshwar Patil
18. Pratima Bhoumik
19. Subhas Sarkar
20. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
21. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
22. Bharati Pravin Pawar
23. Bishweswar Tudu
24. Shantanu Thakur
25. Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai
26. John Barla
27. Dr L Murugan
28.Nishith Pramanik

Earlier in the day, 12 ministers, including six of Cabinet rank, had submitted their resignations. The 12 ministers who resigned from the Council of Ministers are:

1. D.V. Sadananda Gowda

2. Ravi Shankar Prasad

3. Thaawarchand Gehlot (appointed as Karnataka Governor)

4. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’

5. Dr. Harsh Vardhan

6. Prakash Javadekar

7. Santosh Kumar Gangwar

8. Babul Supriyo

9. Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao

10. Rattan Lal Kataria

11. Pratap Chandra Sarangi

12. Debasree Chaudhuri

Their resignations have been accepted by President Kovind, a communique issued by the President's Secretariat said.