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With more than 40 members joining the Council of Ministers and many senior members leaving it, the Cabinet has reconstituted several important panels.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will continue to chair the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs. Cabinet Ministers such as Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and other members of the Cabinet like Narendra Singh Tomar, Virendra Kumar, Anurag Singh Thakur, Arjun Munda, Pralhad Joshi and Kiren Rijiju have been coopted to the panel. Ministers of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and V. Muraleedharan will be special invitees to the panel.
The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has also been reconstituted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue to chair it. Raj Nath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, Pralhad Joshi and new members in the Cabinet Sarbananda Sonowal, Giriraj Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya, and Bhupender Yadav will be members of it.
Modi will also chair the Cabinet Committee on Security. Apart from him, the Defence Minister, the Home Minister, the Finance Minister and the External Affairs Minister are members.
Modi and Shah are the only two members of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. In Cabinet Committee on Accommodation, headed by Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Goyal and newly appointed Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri are members. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science andTechnology Jitendra Singh is a special invitee to the panel.
Modi will continue to head the powerful Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). The Defence Minister, the Home Minister, the External Affairs Minister, Gadkari, Goyal, Sitharaman, Tomar and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan are members of the CCEA.
Modi will also head the Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth. Rajnath Singh, Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Goyal, new Minister for MSMEs Narayan Rane, Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia and Ministry of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw are members of it.
The Prime Minister will also head the Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development. Rajnath Singh, Shah, Sitharaman, Tomar, Goyal, Pradhan, Vaishnaw, Hardeep Singh Puri and Bhupender Yadav are the committee members. Gadkari, Minister of Steel Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Minister of Culture G. Kishan Reddy are members of it.
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