PM reshuffles Cabinet, Pranab Mukherjee is new Indian Foreign minister
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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Pranab Mukherjee was appointed the External Affairs Minister while veteran Congressman A K Antony took his place as Defence Minister in a minor expansion-cum-reshuffle of his 29-month-old government by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Kannada actor-turned-politician M H Ambareesh made his debut in the Union Ministry as Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting.
Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav, an RJD leader and a protege of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, who had to resign last year following allegations of influencing the police in a case of electoral malpractices against his brother, returned to the government, again as Minister of State for Water Resources.
Oscar Fernandes took over Ministry of Labour.
- Manmohan Singh : Prime Minister
- Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
- Ministry of Planning
- Department of Atomic Energy
- Department of Space
- Pranab Mukherjee : External Affairs
- A K Antony : Defence
- Arjun Singh : Human Resource Development
- Sharad Pawar : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
- Lalu Prasad : Railways
- Shivraj Patil : Home
- Ram Vilas Paswan : Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel
- S Jaipal Reddy : Urban Development
- P Chidambaram : Finance
- Mahavir Prasad : Small Scale Industries, Agro & Rural Industries
- P R Kyndiah : Tribal Affairs
- T R Baalu : Shipping; Road Transport & Highways
- Shankersinh Vaghela : Textiles
- Kamal Nath : Commerce & Industry
- H R Bhardwaj : Law & Justice
- Raghuvansh Prasad Singh: Rural Development
- Priyaranjan Dashmunsi : Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs
- Mani Shankar Aiyar : Development of North Eastern Region, Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs and Sports
- Meira Kumar : Social Justice & Empowerment
- A Raja : Environment & Forests
- Dayanidhi Maran : Communication & Information Technology
- Anbumani Ramdoss : Health & Family Welfare
- Sis Ram Ola : Mines
- Murli Deora : Petroleum and Natural Gas
- Sushil Kumar Shinde : Power
- A R Antulay : Minority Affairs
- Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs
- Ambika Soni : Tourism and Culture
- Saifuddin Soz : Water Resources
- Shibu Soren : Coal
- Santosh Mohan Dev : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
- P C Gupta : Company Affairs
- Kapil Sibal : Science & Technology and Ocean Development Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
- Renuka Choudhury : Women and Child Development
- Subodh Kant Sahay : Food Processing Industries
- Vilas Muttemwar : Non-Conventional Energy Sources
- Kumari Selja : Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation.
- Praful Patel : Civil Aviation
- G K Vasan : Statistics and Programme Implementation
- Oscar Fernandes : Labour & Employment Ministers of State
- E Ahamed : External Affairs
- Suresh Pachauri : Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs
- B K Handique : Chemical and Fertilisers; Parliamentary Affairs
- Panabaka Lakshmi : Health & Family Welfare
- Dasari Narayan Rao : Coal & Mines
- Shaqeel Ahmed : Communications & Information Technology
- Rao Inderjit Singh : Defence
- Naranbhai Rathwa : Railways
- K H Muniappa : Road Transport & Highways
- M V Rajashekharan : Planning
- Kantilal Bhuria : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
- Manik Rao Gavit : Home Affairs
- Sri Prakash Jaiswal: Home Affairs
- Prithviraj Chavan : Prime Minister's Office
- Taslimuddin : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
- Suryakanta Patil : Rural Development & Parliamentary Affairs
- Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi : Human Resource Development
- R Velu : Railways
- S S Palanimanikkam : Finance
- S Regupathy : Home Affairs
- K Venkatapathy : Law & Justice
- Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan : Social Justice & Empowerment
- E V K Elangovan : Textiles
- Kanti Singh : Heavy Industries
- Namo Narayan Meena : Environment & Forests
- Akhilesh Singh : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
- Pawan Kumar Bansal : Finance
- Anand Sharma : External Affairs
- Ajay Maken : Urban Development
- M M Pallam Raju : Defence
- Akhilesh Das : Steel
- Chandrasekhar Sahu : Rural Development
- Ashwani Kumar : Industries
- D Purandareshwari : Human Resource Development
- Dinshaw Patel : Petroleum & Natural Gas
- T Subbirami Reddy : Mines
- Jairam Ramesh : Commerce
- Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav: Water Resources
- M H Ambareesh : Information and Broadcasting.
Sources
- "Mukherjee is new Foreign Minister, Antony gets Defence" — DD-News, October 24, 2006
- V. Sudhershan, Shanker Chakravarty. "Pranab is External Affairs Minister" — The Hindu, October 24, 2006
- Vinod Sharma and Aloke Tikku. "Pranab Mukherjee is EAM, Antony defence minister" — Hindustan Times, October 24, 2006
