New Delhi: Salman Khurshid has been named as new External Affairs Minister of India as seven Cabinet ministers and 15 Ministers of State were sworn-in on Sunday.
Veerappa Moily has moved to the Petroleum Ministry from Corporate Affairs and Jyotiraditya Scindia is now Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power. Sachin Pilot is made Minister of State in Corporate Affairs with Independent charge. Pawan Kumar Bansal is new Railways Minister.
President Pranab Mukherjee administered the oath of office to those inducted into the Council of Ministers.
Of the seven new Cabinet ministers, two are new faces – former Rajya Sabha deputy chairman K Rahman Khan and Lok Sabha MP Chandresh Kumari Katoch.
The remaining five – Ajay Maken, Dinsha Patel, MM Pallam Raju, Harish Rawat and Ashwani Kumar – were ministers of state.
Earlier, seven ministers had stepped down to make way for newer faces.
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