Modi Cabinet 2.0: Jyotiraditya Scindia given charge of Civil Aviation Ministry

Scindia is among the many outstanding new faces which have been inducted into the Modi Cupboard on Wednesday.

Jyotiraditya Scindia has been appointed as the brand new Civil Aviation Ministry by the Modi authorities. Hardeep Puri, who headed the Ministry of Civil Aviation, will now head City Improvement and Petroleum Ministry, the federal government introduced. Scindia is among the many outstanding new faces which have been inducted into the Modi Cupboard on Wednesday. Apparently, his father Madhavrao Scindia too had beforehand held the portfolio of civil aviation below the PV Narasimha Rao-led central authorities between 1991 and 1993. Scindia was born in 1971 and was educated from Harvard and Stanford establishments.

In response to numerous reviews, Scindia has traversed a great distance after contesting his first election as a candidate of Congress occasion within the 12 months 2002, a by-election within the Lok Sabha constituency of Guna, which was held after his father died in a airplane crash. In September 2001, the non-public airplane (a Beechcraft King Air C90) during which Madhavrao together with seven different individuals had been flying, crashed on the outskirts of Mainpuri district in Uttar Pradesh, killing all of them. Jyotiraditya’s political profession within the Congress occasion began following his father’s demise. And on 10 March final 12 months, which marks the beginning anniversary of his father, Scindia launched into a brand new political journey with the BJP.

On Wednesday, as many as 43 ministers took oath in a serious cupboard expansion-cum-reshuffle whereas 12 ministers had been dropped from their positions. The newly appointed Modi 2.0 Cupboard Ministers embody Narayan Tatu Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Pashu Pati Kumar Paras, Raj Kumar Singh, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Parshottam Rupala, G. Kishan Reddy, Anurag Singh Thakur and Bhupender Yadav. The President, Ram Nath Kovind, administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to them together with different Ministers of State at a ceremony held within the Rashtrapati Bhavan yesterday.