In Pics: Union Cabinet Reshuffle Swearing-In Ceremony
Four minsters promoted to Cabinet rank and nine new ministers inducted in the Council of Ministers during the swearing in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi revamped his cabinet.
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The cabinet reshuffle saw four ministers being promoted for acing their current assessments. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State Petroleum & Natural Gas; Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State, Commerce & Industry; Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs took oath for there new positions in the PM Modi's cabinet.
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Satya Pal Singh, 61, a Lok Sabha MP from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, is one of the nine new faces inducted in Prime Narendra Modi's cabinet. He took oath as a minister of state. Mr Singh is a 1980 batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer and retired as the Mumbai Police chief.