Several ministers including Smriti Irani, who was shunted out from HRD to Textiles ministry, on Wednesday took charge of their new ministries and promised to work for development, streamlining justice delivery system, early passage of GST bill and ensuring speedy implementation of projects.
Apart from Irani, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ananth Kumar took over as Law and Parliamentary Affairs ministers, respectively.
Prakash Javadekar, the lone promotee who was given HRD Ministry in the reshuffle of the council of ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, is scheduled to take up his new position on Thursday. Talking to reporters, he asserted that dialogue is the key to avoid agitations and that education is not a subject for party politics.
“I am a product of student agitation, so we will always talk with everybody. So with dialogues in place, there will be no necessity of agitation,” Javadekar said.
Putting up a brave face, Irani, whose shifting is being seen as demotion, played down her portfolio change with a popular line of a Hindi movie song, “Kuch toh log kahenge, logon ka kaam hai kehna.” (Inputs: PTI)
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