Union women and child development minister Annpurna Devi and minister of state for defence Sanjay Seth receive a rousing welcome from BJP workers in Jharkhand. Seth criticizes JMM-led coalition govt for corruption and praises PM Modi and BJP president JP Nadda. Annpurna Devi expresses gratitude towards BJP leadership for her Union cabinet induction and urges focus on upcoming Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha election.
Besides big four, PM s core team of ministers have also retained their portfolios. Nitin Gadkari (road transport and highways), Piyush Goyal (commerce and industry), Dharmendra Pradhan (education), Sarbananda Sonowal (ports, shipping and waterways), Virendra Kumar (social justice and empowerment), Ashwini Vaishnaw (railways, electronics and information technology), Hardeep Puri (petroleum and natural gas) and Bhupender Yadav (environment, forest and climate change) will continue running the ministries they were handling in the last five years. Some of them have shed additional portfolios that were allocated when others left the council of ministers in the past.
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NewswrapIndia: Following his historic third consecutive term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assigned portfolios to his 71-member council of ministers. The
Prime Minister Narendra Modi largely reposed faith in the team from his previous administration, retaining the same Big Four cabinet members who comprise the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) as portfolios were announced on Monday evening.