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Title: The Prime Minister introduced the Cabinet Ministers and Minister of States, recently been inducted in the Council of Ministers.
THE PRIME MINISTER (DR. MANMOHAN SINGH): Hon. Madam Speaker, with your permission, I wish to introduce to you and, through you, to this august House my colleagues who have recently been inducted in the Council of Ministers.
Cabinet Ministers
1. Shri Praful Patel – Minister of Heavy Industries and
Public Enterprises
2. Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal – Minister of Coal
3. Shri Salman Khursheed – Minister of Water Resources with
additional charge of the Office of
the Minister of Minority Affairs
Minister of State (Independent Charge)
4. Shri Beni Prasad Verma – Minister of State of the Ministry of Steel
Ministers of State
5. Shri Ashwani Kumar – Minister of State in the Ministries of
Planning, Parliamentary Affairs, Science
and Technology, and Earth Sciences
6. Shri K.C. Venugopal – Minister of State in the Ministry of
Power