10 Jun 2024 2:33 PM GMT
Arjun Ram Meghwal will retain the Ministry of Law and Justice as a Minister of State with independent charge in the newly formed NDA government at the Centre. He is also the Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
The portfolios of the newly sworn-in Ministers were announced today evening.
Meghwal, who won the Lok Sabha elections from Bikaner constituency in Rajasthan this year, was handling the Law Ministry in the previous government from May 2023. On May 17, 2023, he had replaced Kiren Rijiju as the Minister of Law and Justice.
There are no changes in the major portfolios from the previous government with Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jayasankar retaining the Ministries of Home, Defence, Finance and External Affairs respectively.
Allocation of portfolios to the new Council of Ministers of the Union Government. pic.twitter.com/UDtYpn5ZYh