Narendra Modi inducts six new Ministers of State
This was the second expansion of the Council of Ministers in five months and the third since Mr Modi took charge after the December 2007 Assembly elections.
With the addition of the six new Ministers, the strength of the Council of Ministers has gone up to 27.
The new entrants were administered oaths of office and secrecy by Governor Kamla Beniwal at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan here this morning.
The new Ministers are Jitendra Sukhadia, MLA from Vadodara, Ranjit Gilitwala, from Surat, Mohan Kundariya from Tankara, Ishwar Patel from Ankleswar, Jaidrathsinh Parmar from Halol and Liladhar Vaghela from Diyodar.
Two Ministers of State had resigned following the registration of police cases against them.
Minister of State for Women's Welfare Mayaben Kodnani resigned in 2009 following her arrest in connection with the 2002 communal massacre in Naroda Gam, while Minister of State for Home Amit Shah resigned after his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Kausar Bi murder case in July last year.
Mr Modi will allocate the portfolios to the new ministers later in the day.
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