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Modi Cabinet 2.0, with 77 ministers, is all about politics and governance Mandavia gets Health portfolio; Scindia gets aviation; Puri gets additional charge of petroleum
In the most comprehensive reshuffle of his council of ministers in his seven-year tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday sacked many senior colleagues, elevated some, and infused the government with new, young faces. A new ministry of cooperation was also created. In all, 43 ministers were sworn in, taking the strength of the council of ministers to 77. The reshuffle had politics at its heart, but the inclusion of several technocrats and former bureaucrats suggested that governance and efficiency were the immediate priorities after the devastation left behind by the Covid-19 pandemic. The government seemed to have accepted responsibility for lapses, but signalled the intention to move ahead aggressively. Battling the optics of Covid-19 mismanagement – the crisis faced by migrants that drew the ire of the judiciary; the oxygen and hospital bed shortages; and the extended uncertainty of school board examinations – the PM sought to change the faces associated with the ministries and appointed new ministers for labour, health, and education. He also sacked those ministers who forced the government to take its eye off the Covid-19 ball creating new problems for it by avoidable controversies, such as the clash with IT giants WhatsApp and Twitter. Ministers whose performance in defending the government in Covid management was found sub-par were sent home. So labour
minister Santosh Gangwar, health minister Harshvardhan, and education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank were asked to resign along with their junior ministers. Minister for IT, telecommunications and law, Ravi Shankar Prasad was given the boot. And information and environment minister Prakash Javadekar was stripped of his ministership…Read More