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One of the key points of the reshuffled Cabinet was increasing the women representation. The 2019's Council of Ministers had six women faces -- 3 Cabinet ministers and 3 ministers of state.

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    Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday hosted the women ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reshuffled council of ministers at her residence.

    In the recent reshuffle, seven BJP MPs have been inducted into the council. Following the reshuffle, PM Modi's Council of ministers now includes 11 women -- nine among them are ministers of state. Smriti Irani, Meenakshi Lekhi, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Anupriya Patel, Renuka Singh, Annapurna Devi, Pratima Bhowmik, Bharati Pawar, Shobha Karandlaje, Darshana Jardosh were present at the informal meeting.

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    One of the key points of the reshuffled Cabinet was increasing the women representation. The 2019's Council of Ministers had six women faces -- 3 Cabinet ministers and 3 ministers of state.

    From six, the number has now been raised to 11, though after Harsimrat Kaur Badal's resignation, the number of Cabinet ministers has gone down to two.

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