Modi Cabinet 2.0: Ravi Shankar Prasad appointed Minister of Law & Justice; Communications; and Electronics and Information Technology

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 58 other ministers took the oath-of-office in a mega-ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Ram Nath Kovind has announced the list of ministries on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As per the list, Ravi Shankar Prasad is the Minister of Law and Justice, and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Minister of Communications.

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◆ THEN: Ravi Shankar Prasad held multiple portfolios one of Union Minister
holding the Law and Justice and one of Minister of Electronics and Information
Technology

◆ NOW: Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister
of Electronics and Information Technology

In a stunning result in one of the most keenly watched individual electoral battles in the 2019 general elections, Union Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has defeated Congress candidate and sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha in Bihar's Patna Sahib constituency. 

READ | 2019 Lok Sabha Election Results for Patna Sahib, Bihar: Massive victory for Ravi Shankar Prasad, defeats two-time MP Shatrughan Sinha in biggest prestige battle

Ravi Shankar Prasad defeated Shatrughan Sinha by a margin of 2,84,657 votes.

Meanwhile, The first meeting of the new Union Cabinet will take place on Friday at 5:30 pm, a government official said. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers were sworn in on Thursday at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Union Cabinet for the 17th Lok Sabha includes 24 cabinet ministers, 9 ministers of state with independent charge and 24 Ministers of State (MoS).

Top leaders who were sworn in as cabinet ministers include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, DV Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar, a surprise pick.

Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sadanand Gowda and Representatives of BJP allies--Ram Vilas Paswan (LJSP), Harsimrat Kaur (Akali Dal), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena) and Ramdas Athawale (RPI-A) who will be a Minister of State (MoS) also took oath.

Some of the key ministers in the previous Modi government, including Sushma Swaraj, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Maneka Gandhi, are not a part of the new council of ministers, while former finance minister Arun Jaitley opted out of the new cabinet citing health reasons.