Cabinet Committees rejig: Smriti Irani, Sarbananda Sonowal, Bhupender Yadav in key panel

A week after the major reshuffle of the cabinet, the government has now made changes in the Cabinet Committees.

Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani, Environment and Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav and Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal are now a part of the key Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, which is headed by PM Narendra Modi.

The reconstituted Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs comprises the prime minister, and Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, Pralhad Joshi, Sarbananda Sonowal, Giriraj Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya and Bhupender Yadav.

Former ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsh Vardhan are no longer part of it following their exclusion from the ministry.

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