Prime Minister Modi congratulates the newly sworn ministers and shares a photo of the renewed cabinet

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed the new ministers who were sworn in that day. Modi's message to ministers came after a cabinet move earlier in the day.

“I congratulate all colleagues who were sworn in today and wish them all the best for their term of office. We will continue to work to meet people's desires and build a strong and prosperous India.

Following the expansion of the Union cabinet announced by the Prime Minister, 43 new ministers were appointed to the Council of Ministers, including 15 cabinet ministers and 28 ministers of state. a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan earlier in the day.

Also, on Tuesday, the Union government sculptured out a replacement ministry referred to as the ministry of cooperation, geared toward providing a separate, administrative, legal and policy framework for strengthening the cooperative movement within the country. “The Ministry can work to contour processes for ‘Ease of doing business’ for co-operatives and modify development of Multi-State Co-operatives (MSCS),” the cupboard secretariat aforesaid during a statement discharged antecedently on Tuesday. the cupboard growth is that the 1st since the Modi-led government came back to power in the 2019 parliamentary elections. Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP from Congress last year, Rajya Sabha MP and former administrative official Ashwini Vaishnaw, former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal were among the new entrants within the cabinet.

Meanwhile, former Union ministers Harsh Vardhan, sitar player Prasad, Sadananda Gowda and Prakash Javadekar, tendered their resignations before the growth was announced. New portfolios have conjointly been allotted to the ministers on the day, in line with which, Mansukh Mandaviya took charge because the minister of health and family welfare and also as the minister of chemicals and fertilizers. Scindia was assigned the ministry of civil aviation whereas Vaishnaw got the ministry of railways, ministry of communications and also the ministry of physics and data technology. Union home minister Amit Shah took further charge of the new ministry of cooperation along side the house affairs ministry. Also, Rajnath Singh and Nirmala Sitharaman too maintained their individual ministries of defence and finance.