Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice and Electronics and IT in the sixteenth Lok Sabha, has been given the Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Communications, and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology within the seventeenth Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ravi Shankar Prasad commenced his political career by taking part in the anti-emergency movement in the 1970s, for which he was sent to jail. Since 1995, he has been a member of the BJP National Executive, the party’s top policymaking forum.
He became an MP and Coal Minister in the first NDA government in 2001, Minister of Law and Justice in July 2002, and then Minister of Information and Broadcasting in 2003. In 2006, he became be BJP’s national spokesperson, after which the Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha in 2012. After Narendra Modi’s ascension to power in 2014, he became a cabinet minister with vital portfolios like Law and Justice and Electronics and IT. Prasad, who has served 4 terms in the Rajya Sabha, contested in his first Lok Sabha election in 2019, towards actor-grew of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, at the Patna Sahib seat was previously a stronghold of Sinha. However, Prasad defeated him by a margin of over six lakh votes.
Also, a legal professional by profession, he became the primary attorney who argued the PIL against former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam. He also became the attorney in the Ayodhya Ram temple case, representing ‘Ram Lalla,’ the deity. The President appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy to the Members of the Council of Ministers. Here’s a quick lowdown on the new Modi Cabinet.
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh
Amit Shah
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
DV Sadananda Gowda
Nirmala Sitharaman
Ram Vilas Paswan
Narendra Singh Tomar
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
Arjun Munda
Smriti Zubin Irani
Harsh Vardhan
Prakash Javadekar
Piyush Goyal
Dharmendra Pradhan
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Pralhad Joshi
Mahendra Nath Pandey
Arvind Ganpat Sawant
Giriraj Singh
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Rao Inderjit Singh
Shripad Yesso Naik
Jitendra Singh
Kiren Rijiju
Prahalad Singh Patel
Raj Kumar Singh
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh L Mandaviya
Ministers of State
Faggansingh Kulaste
Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Arjun Ram Meghwal
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
Krishan Pal
Dave Raosaheb Dadarao
G Kishan Reddy
Parshottam Rupala
Ramdas Athawale
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Babul Supriyo
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
Anurag Singh Thakur
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
Nityanand Rai
Rattan Lal Kataria
V Muraleedharan
Renuka Singh Saruta
Som Parkash
Rameshwar Teli
Pratap Chandra Sarangi
Kailash Choudhary
Debasree Chaudhuri is a universal truth that human civilization always needs a ruler. Without a ruler, no civilization can exist—even the greatest civilization breaks down when the ruler becomes weak. Human beings had been ruled by every possible being in the past. They have been ruled by kings, queens, dictators, Bishops, Priests, Prophets, dacoits, thugs, communists, or elected representatives. Yet all the rulers had been human beings whom we could know and identify.
