Following the resignations of Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia had been handed over additional price of minority affairs and steel ministries.
Each and every Naqvi and Singh submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a day prior to the completion of their Rajya Sabha terms.
President of India, as urged by PM, accepts the resignations of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Ram Chandra Prasad Singh from Union Council of Ministers, with immediate pause. Smriti Irani to be assigned Ministry of Minority Affairs price, besides to to her contemporary portfolio. (1/2)
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“The President of India, as urged by the Prime Minister, has accredited the resignations of Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh from the Union Council of Ministers, with immediate pause, under clause (2) of Article 75 of the Structure,” a press dialog from the Rashtrapati Bhavan talked about.
Naqvi’s resignation came amid rumours that the BJP became actively brooding about somebody from the minority crew as its candidate for the post of Vice President. He had met both PM Modi and BJP president JP Nadda earlier within the day.
With the resignation of Naqvi, who became also the Deputy Chief of Rajya Sabha, the BJP will comprise no Muslim MP amongst its 395 Members of Parliament. Naqvi became amongst the three BJP Muslim MPs whose terms ended at some level of doubtlessly the most modern round of Rajya Sabha polls to 57 seats across 15 states, nonetheless none of them had been renominated by the event.
Singh, a aged bureaucrat and as soon as a confidant of Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar, resigned on his birthday, one three hundred and sixty five days after becoming a member of the Union cabinet on his event’s quota.
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