Cabinet reshuffle: Why were these minters dropped?

Khevna.P.Shah, INN/Bangalore

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Many high-profile ministers tendered their resignation on Wednesday as they were dropped ahead of the Modi government’s  Cabinet reshuffle

Out of the 12 ministers who were dropped the six are Cabinet ministers naming Ravi Shankar Prasad (law, communications, and electronics and information technology), Prakash Javadekar (environment and information and broadcasting), Dr Harsh Vardhan (health), Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ (education), D.V. Sadananda Gowda (chemical and fertilizers), and one was the state governor  Thaawar Chand Gehlot (social justice and empowerment).

Others who have resigned include Minister of State (Independent charge) Santosh Gangwar (labour). Ministers of State Debasree Chaudhuri (women and child development), Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao (three portfolios, including education and communications), Pratap Sarangi (two portfolios, including fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying), Rattan Lal Kataria (two ministries, Jal shakti, and social justice and empowerment), Babul Supriyo (environment), and Ashwini Kumar Chaubey (health) have also resigned or are in the process of doing so.

The Cabinet reshuffle follows a long deliberation exercise that was carried out at the party level, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired an over-five-hour meeting on 30 June to decide on new inductees and those who could be dropped.

 

Came as a surprise to many, the Law and justice, communication, electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad along with MoS Sanjay Shmrao Dhotre were dropped from the ministry.

According to the sources, Prasad was unable to deliver the expansion of information technology in the Maoist areas. Other than that he was also held responsible for mishandling the bitter war with the micro-blogging on Twitter.  Hence this gave a bad name to the country said the sources.

The sources are stating another reason for dropping out Prasad from the ministry, as he failed in effectively communicating its policies and stands on pressing issues.

Harsh Vardhan

The Health minister faced the brunt of the Covid mismanagement during the second wave of the pandemic earlier this year.

Vardhan was also blamed for the scarcity of the hospital beds and lack of oxygen cylinders and also the allegedly flawed vaccination policy of the government which witnessed thousands of deaths and Covid cases.

Prakash Javadekar

Another surprise resignation was of information and broadcasting and environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar.

According to the sources, Javadekars performance in neither of the above fields was not up to the mark. He was succeeded after Smriti Irani and from there he was shifted and assigned I &B and forest and environment ministries.

And environment being the prime minister’s favourite department put Javadekar under direct PM’s surveillance. According to the sources age also played a role in removing Javadekar who turned 70 in January this year.

Santosh Gangwar

Dropped as the Mos (independent charge ) of the labour and employment ministry in the latest cabinet reshuffle.

Accordion to the sources, Gangwar was blamed for the migrant labourers’ crisis during the lockdown in the wake of the first Covid pandemic wave last year.

Supreme Court was even forced to pass an adverse remark saying. “The lackadaisical attitude of the labour minister is unpardonable.”

Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Social justice and empowerment witnessed the shifting of both the cabinet minister, Thaawar Chand Gehlot and MoS Rattan Lal Kataria.

Gehlot was moved to the Karnataka government while Kataria was dropped. The sources also said Gehlot, 73 too would not keep pace with PM Modi.

Sadananda Gowda

Sadananda Gowda has witnessed the lost demotion in the last seven years of the Modi government After the 2014 Lok Sabha election, he was allocated to the railway portfolio and later shifted to the law and justice ministry.  Before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he was demoted to the statistics and programme implementation ministry.

However, before the polls, data leaked which stated that the unemployment rate during the Modi government was the highest in the 45 years causing immense embarrassment to the BJP government.

Even after shifting to the chemical and fertilizer industry, his performance was disappointing.

Ramesh Pokkhriyal Nishank

According to the sources, was removed from the Education ministry because he failed to take rapid steps to revoke the distortions in the history of the syllabus for the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT)

Nishank, a former chief minister of Uttarakhand has also been relived die to the assembly election in his state next year.