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PM Announced New Cabinet Ministers

Politics — 19 January 2011

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rearrange his Cabinet with more of a portfolio reshuffle at New Delhi today.  Three ministers have been escalated to cabinet rank. The following list gives you the reshuffled council of ministers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). This is the first changes in the ministry portfolio after the UPA retained the power at May 2009.

New Cabinet Ministers

Cabinet ministers:

1. Praful Patel : Heavy industries and public enterprises
2. Sriprakash Jaiswal : Coal
3. Salman Khursheed : Water resources and additional charge of minority affairs

Minister of state (independent charge):
1. Ajay Maken : Youth affairs and sports
2. Beni Prasad Verma : Steel
3. K.V. Thomas: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

Ministers of state:
1. Ashwani Kumar : Planning and parliamentary affairs, science and technology, and earth sciences
2. K.C. Venugopal : Power

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