PM Modi to induct new faces in his council, swearing in at 10.30 am
September 03, 2017 08:38
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will rejig his cabinet on Sunday at 10.30 am as he looks to revamp his Council of Ministers with an eye on the 2019 general elections.
"Swearing-in ceremony of new ministers of the Union government will take place at 10.30 am on Sunday, September 3, at Rashtrapati Bhavan," President Ram Nath Kovind said in a tweet.
Among the new inductees are two former bureaucrats, one retired diplomat and an ex-police commissioner
Three of the BJP MPs being inducted -- Virendra Kumar (63), Anant Kumar Hegde (49) and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (49) -- are from Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan respectively where assembly polls are due next year.
Former IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam (64), who hails from Kerala, is another pick by Modi, a move seen as the BJP's efforts to expand its base in the southern state to take on the ruling Left Democratic Front led by the CPI(M).
The other new faces to be included in the ministry are BJP MPs Ashwini Kumar Choubey (Bihar), Shiv Pratap Shukla (Uttar Pradesh), former Home Secretary Raj Kumar Singh (Bihar), former diplomat Hardeep Puri and ex-Mumbai police chief Satyapal Singh, the sources said.
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