India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a big Union Cabinet reshuffle, on Wednesday, appointed 43 new ministers and expanded it with new set of Council of Ministers. 

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The names of the selected ministers were chosen after accumulating feedback from senior ministers and party leaders. Also, factors like caste, age, gender, education, experience, etc. have been taken into account. 

The oath ceremony for these new ministers began today around 6 pm at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Check the full list of names of new ministers, as reported by Zee News.

  1. Shri Narayan Tatu Rane
  2. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
  3. Dr. Virendra Kumar
  4. Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia
  5. Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh
  6. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
  7. Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
  8. Shri Kiren Rijiju
  9. Shri Raj Kumar Singh
  10. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri
  11. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya
  12. Shri Bhupender Yadav
  13. Shri Parshottam Rupala
  14. Shri G. Kishan Reddy
  15. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
  16. Shri Pankaj Choudhary
  17. Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel
  18. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel
  19. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
  20. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje
  21. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
  22. Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
  23. Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi
  24. Smt. Annpurna Devi
  25. Shri A. Narayanaswamy
  26. Shri Kaushal Kishore
  27. Shri Ajay Bhatt
  28. Shri B. L. Verma
  29. Shri Ajay Kumar
  30. Shri Chauhan Devusinh
  31. Shri Bhagwanth Khuba
  32. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil
  33. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik
  34. Dr. Subhas Sarkar
  35. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
  36. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
  37. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
  38. Shri Bishweswar Tudu
  39. Shri Shantanu Thakur
  40. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
  41. Shri John Barla
  42. Dr. L. Murugan
  43. Shri Nisith Pramanik

It is important to note that 12 ministers, so far, have resigned and many more are expected to quit in the coming days. The ministers who have quit include Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Harsh Vardhan, Santosh Gangwar, Sadanand Gowda, Ashwini Chaube, Babul Supriyo, Debasree Chauduri, Sanjay Dhotre, Rao Saheb Dhanve Patil, Ratan Lal Kataria, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, DV Sadananda.