Union Cabinet expansion 2021: A phone call that led to resignations of 11 ministers
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank' were among the 11 Union ministers who resigned on Wednesday ahead of the cabinet expansion 2021.
According to the sources, it was on one phone call. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepared for his first cabinet reshuffle in the second term, the BJP National President JP Nadda settled down with his phone.
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JP Nadda had to make 11 phone calls. As the time announcements regarding the Union cabinet expansion 2021 drew closer, Nadda made 11 phone calls to Union Ministers and asked them to put in their papers, sources said.
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President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignations of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, D V Sadananda Gowda, Santosh Gangwar, Sanjay Dhotre, Debasree Chaudhuri, Rattan Lal Kataria, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, and Babul Supriyo.
The Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawarchand Gehlot also resigned after he was made Governor of Karnataka.
In all, six Cabinet Ministers, one Minister of State (Independent Charge), and five Ministers of State resigned from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet.
-PTC News
