Cabinet reshuffle: Kiren Rijiju replaced by Arjun Ram Meghwal as law minister
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New Delhi: Kiren Rijiju, the Union Minister of Law, was replaced by Arjun Ram Meghwal on Thursday after being moved to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences.
According to a statement released by the Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Droupadi Murmu reassigned portfolios among ministers in the Union Council of Ministers on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The portfolio of (the) Ministry of Earth Sciences be assigned to Shri Kiren Rijiju,” it said.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh was holding charge of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Meghwal is currently the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister of State for Culture.
He has been assigned independent charge as Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice in addition to his existing portfolios, in place of Rijiju, according to the statement.
With PTI inputs