Here is everything you need to know about the “Youngest cabinet ever”

PM Modi all set to rejig his cabinet to improve administrative governance during his tenure, he is to address the nation at 6 pm today and send out political signals by correcting regional representation and create the youngest cabinet in history.

The reshuffle will see the addition of some younger faces, which will bring down the average age of the central government and create the youngest cabinet ever. This will be the first time the PM will be expanding his council of ministers since his government was re-elected in May 2019.

The Modi government is a government of the poor, OBCs, Dalits and dispossessed people of the country. According to BJP sources, leaders representing both Brahmin and Dalit communities could find a place in the cabinet. Emphasis has been laid on highly qualified MBAs, PHDs and post-graduates to be included in the central government. The Prime Minister has even reached out to key technocrats to include them in his council of ministers.

Six BJP leaders are likely to be sworn in as ministers in the Union Cabinet. Narayan Rane from Maharashtra, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Madhya Pradesh and Sarbananda Sonowal from Assam are among the frontrunners some of them who are headed towards the capital. Janata Dal United’s Bihar president Umesh Kushwaha also said that his party would also be joining the Narendra Modi government in the upcoming cabinet expansion. Two ministers, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Santosh Gangwar, have resigned from the Union Cabinet, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mega reshuffle.

Efforts have been made to bring in faces who have administrative experience in the states but also some ex-CMs are being brought into the union cabinet and leaders who have long experience as ministers in state governments. Special reservation for women in the cabinet will increase their representation after this reshuffle.

The Modi government on Tuesday even created a new ‘Ministry of Cooperation’, to provide support to the cooperative movements in the country.

The creation of the new ministry also reflects the Centre’s commitment to community-based developmental partnership, according to a release from the Cabinet Secretariat. “Sahkar se samriddhi” which is Prosperity from cooperation is the main vision of the Ministry of Cooperation.

A senior source in the government said a cabinet reshuffle is the prime minister’s motive to deal with the pandemic better and the forthcoming session of the Parliament, which needs ministers well settled with their portfolios.

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The prime minister can have an 81 member council, while currently there are 53 ministers in PM Modi’s cabinet. Sources say that PM Modi could fill up some of the 28 posts vacant to improve the government’s administrative and political footprint. Some ministers might lose their ministerial berths. Amid buzz over an upcoming Union Cabinet expansion, the president appointed eight new governors on Tuesday as reported by India today.

Sources say that PM Modi might add in one more junior minister to the Finance Ministry, to balance out the enormous strain the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns have created on the economy.

Prime Minister Modi’s mega cabinet reshuffle, the first in his second term, will be announced today at 6 pm. The new cabinet will be the youngest ever in India’s history. Citizens are looking forward to this remarkable move made by the BJP government.