Know your ministers before the Cabinet reshuffle

New Delhi: With Dayanidhi Maran resigning as textiles minister, a cabinet reshuffle has become necessary but it is unlikely that the top four in the Government would be disturbed.

The Defence, Finance, Home and Foreign ministers are likely to stay on the course. Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora has already asked to be relieved of his duties and the Congress has refused to accommodate Lalu Prasad Yadav, who was lobbying hard for a Cabinet berth.

Ahead of the reshuffle, here is a full list of the ministers in the current Cabinet.

List of Cabinet Ministers:

Praful Patel: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Shriprakash Jaiswal: Coal Ministry

Salman Khursheed: Water Resources and additional charge of Minority Affairs

Minister of State (Independent Charge):

Ajay Maken: Youth Affairs and Sports

Beni Prasad Verma: Steel

Professor KV Thomas: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Ministers of state:

Ashwani Kumar: Planning and Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

KC Venugopal: Power

Ministers whose portfolios have been changed:

Cabinet ministers:

Sharad Pawar: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

Virbhadra Singh: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Vilasrao Deshmukh: Rural Development and additional charge of Panchayati Raj

S Jaipal Reddy: Petroleum and Natural Gas

Kamal Nath: Urban Development

Vayalar Ravi: Overseas Indian Affairs and additional charge of Civil Aviation

Murli Deora: Corporate Affairs

Kapil Sibal: Human Resource Development and additional charge of Communications and Information Technology

BK Handique: Development of North-Eastern Region

CP Joshi: Road Transport and Highways

Kumari Selja: Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and additional charge of Culture

Subodh Kant Sahay: Tourism

Dr MS Gill: Statistics and Programme Implementation

Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

Minister of State (Independent Charge):

Dinsha Patel: Mines

Ministers of State:

E Ahamed: External Affairs

Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

V Narayanasamy: Parliamentary Affairs and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office

Gurudas Kamat: Home Affairs

A Sai Prathap: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Bharatsinh Solanki: Railways

Jitin Prasada: Road Transport and Highways

Mahadev S Khandela: Tribal Affairs

RPN Singh: Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs

Tusharbhai Chaudhary: Road Transport and Highways

Arun Yadav: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

Pratik Prakashbapu Patil: Coal

Vincent Pala: Water Resources and Minority Affairs