On 7 July 2021

Indian Prime Minister The prime minister of India (IAST: ) is the head of government of the Republic of India. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and their chosen Council of Ministers, despite the president of India being the nominal head of the ...

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament fro ...

carried out a

reshuffle A cabinet reshuffle or shuffle occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet, or when the Head of State changes the head of government and a number of ministers. They are more common in parli ...

of his ministry. Prime Minister Modi in July 2021

Background

Modi carried out 3 cabinet reshuffles during his first ministry. The cabinet reshuffle of 2021 is the first cabinet reshuffle of the

second Modi ministry The Second Ministry of Narendra Modi is the Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2019 general election which was held in seven phases in 2019. The results of the election were announ ...

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, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Darshana Jardosh,

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, Ramchandra Prasad Singh,

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, Nisith Pramanik,

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, Pankaj Chaudhary, Kaushal Kishore,

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, Subhas Sarkar, Shantanu Thakur,

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, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma,

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, Annapurna Devi Yadav, B. L. Verma, Devusinh Chauhan, Bhagwanth Khuba,

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and A. Narayanaswamy became new ministers. Harsh Vardhan,

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and Pratap Sarangi left the Modi cabinet.

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and

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were promoted to cabinet rank ministers.

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