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New Delhi:BJP bigwigs and heavyweight ministers including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari are among eight ministers who have retained their portfolios in the Council of Ministers announced Monday, with the Modi government seemingly focusing on continuity in governance...
The party has kept the top four ministries that are part of the important Cabinet Committee on Security with Rajnath Singh retaining the defence portfolio, Amit Shah home, S. Jaishankar external affairs, and Nirmala Sitharaman finance...
Some of the other important portfolios including railways, road transport, education, health, commerce, information and broadcasting, parliamentary affairs has also been retained by the BJP giving rise to murmurs of discontent from among its alliance partners such as the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)...
The Cabinet ministers whose portfolios are changed include Giriraj Singh, who will be in charge of the textile ministry, and Kiren Rijiju who will be the parliamentary affairs and minority affairs minister..
Among the five MoSs with independent charge, the three BJP ministers Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitendra Singh, and Arjun Ram Meghwal have retained most of their old portfolios...
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