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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to expand his cabinet today (7 July) with induction of 43 new faces.
This will be the first major reshuffle in the Modi Cabinet after the NDA government won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
With the reshuffle and expansion, the strength of the Union Cabinet can go up to 81 members – that is 15 per cent of the Lok Sabha strength. The current strength of the Council of Ministers stands at 53.
Further, the strength of women ministers in the Modi government is also likely to increase with the Cabinet expansion.
Here are the names of the 43 leaders who will be inducted as minister in PM Modi's Cabinet.
Narayan Rane
Sarbananda Sonowal
Dr Virendra Kumar
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Ramchandra Prasad Singh
Ashwini Vaishnaw
Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
Kiren Rijiju
Raj Kumar Singh
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh Mandaviya
Bhupender Yadav
Parshottam Rupala
G Kishan Reddy
Anurag Singh Thakur
Pankaj Choudhary
Anupriya Singh Patel
Satya Pal Singh Baghel
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Darshana Vikram Jardosh
Meenakshi Lekhi
Annapurna Devi
A Narayanaswamy
Kaushal Kishore
Ajay Bhatt
B L Verma
Ajay Kumar
Chauhan Devusinh
Bhagwanth Khuba
Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Pratima Bhowmik
Subhas Sarkar
Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Bharati Pravin Pawar
Bishweswar Tudu
Shantanu Thakur
Manjupara Mahendrabhai
John Barla
L Murugan
Nisith Pramanik