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Reshuffle of PM Modi Cabinet, New defence and Railway minister to be appointed today

Reshuffle of PM Modi Cabinet, New defence and Railway minister to be appointed today

PM Modi Cabinet is now set to reshuffle the ministers today. The oath ceremony of the new cabinet minister of the BJP government will begin from 10:30. Already the nine ministers names have been declared. As per the sources, six ministers resigned also make some space for the new faces along with the news faces the Buerocrats to join the Cabinet. The three Bureaucrats includes retired diplomat Hardeep Puri, the retired IAS officer KJ Alphons and the former Home Secretary also lawmaker RK Singh. This is the third reshuffle of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi era.

All the new ministers to join PM Modi at his place 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence for breakfast before the process of reshuffling begins. According to the sources, the six ministers have resigned to give their place to some new faces that include Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Sanjeev Balyan, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Kalraj Mishra and Bandaru Dattatreya. Sources said that some of the Ministers re-assigned for the key roles of the 2019 national election. This cabinet reshuffle to appoint new defence minister after the Manohar Parrikar. And after the retaining period of Arun Jaitley, the new defence minister expected to be appointed today.

This cabinet reshuffle includes several key ministries, the Defence and Railways department to get fresh faces. As per the official sources the six incumbent ministers like Kalraj Mishra to joined the list of the restructuring exercise and to be freed from other responsibilities. The sources said BJP is now preparing for the 2019 elections by deciding and assigning new cabinet ministers.

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