Uttara Kannada MP Ananth Kumar Hegde Joins Narendra Modi’s Cabinet

Team Udayavani, Sep 3, 2017, 12:36 PM IST

New Delhi/Uttara Kannada: Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha MP, BJP leader Ananth Kumar Hegde sworn in as Union Minister of State after a reshuffle of union cabinet on Sunday. Ananth Kumar Hegde (49) has been elected as Member of Parliament for five times and has been working hard for the wellbeing of the people of his constituency.

Ananth Kumar Hegde has served as a member of number parliamentary committees and has exceptional knowledge on political affairs of the country. He is an expert in martial arts also.

New other eight faces including,  Shiv Pratap Shukla, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Dr Virendra Kumar, Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri,  Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Dr. Satya Pal Singh and Alphons Kannanthanam have been inducted into union council of ministers during a swearing in ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

Meanwhile, four union ministers of state have been promoted as cabinet ministers including, Dharmendra Pradhan, Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitharaman and  Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi after the cabinet reshuffle.