Cabinet reshuffle: All you need to know about ministers likely to be inducted

Nine of the ministers, who are to join the cabinet, as part of Prime Minister Naerendra Modi’s cabinet reshuffle, were named on Saturday night. These include Shiv Pratap Shukla from UP, Ashwini Choubey and RK Singh from Bihar, Virendra Kumar from Madhya Pradesh, Ananthkumar Hegde from Karnataka, former IFS officer Hardeep Singh Puri, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat from Rajasthan, Satya Pal Singh, who was the former commissioner of the Mumbai police, and Kerala’s Alphons Kallnanthanan

Here’s a little bit about each of the named leaders

Shiv Pratap Shukla: Shukla is a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh. He is a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development. Elected as a Member of the UP Legislative Assembly for four consecutive terms, he served as a Cabinet Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government for 8 years, and is known for his work in Rural Development, Education and Prison reform during his tenure.

Ashwini Kumar Choubey: Choubey is a Lok Sabha MP from Bihar’s Buxar. Currently, he is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Estimates and Standing Committee on Energy. Choubey has been elected for 5 consecutive terms to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. He has helped construct 11,000 toilets for Mahadalit families in the …read more