New Delhi: In a surprise move, tribal leader and BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Mayurbhanj Bishweswar Tudu has been included as a Minister of State (MoS) in the Modi government.
President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers.
Similarly, another MP (Rajya Sabha) from Odisha Ashwini Vaishnav was also sworn-in as a cabinet minister in Modi ministry.
Tudu has been elected from Mayurbhanj Lok Sabha seat, reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates, for the first time.
The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers:-
CABINET MINISTERS
1. Narayan Tatu Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya M Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad Singh
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
8. Kiren Rijiju
9. Raj Kumar Singh
10. Hardeep Singh Puri
11. Mansukh Mandaviya
12. Bhupender Yadav
13. Parshottam Rupala
14. G. Kishan Reddy
15. Anurag Singh Thakur
MINISTERS OF STATE
1. Pankaj Choudhary
2. Anupriya Singh Patel
3. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
4. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
5. Sushri 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. B. L. Verma
14. Ajay Kumar
15. Chauhan Devusinh
16. Bhagwanth Khuba
17. Kapil Moreshwar Patil
18. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik
19. Dr. Subhas Sarkar
20. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
21. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
22. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
23. Bishweswar Tudu
24. Shantanu Thakur
25. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
26. Shri John Barla
27. Dr. L. Murugan
28. Nisith Pramanik