President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other members of Council of Ministers at the Swearing-in Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on July 7, 2021. (Photograph: PIB)
The much-anticipated and publicised expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers in his second term concluded on July 7. While it was expected to primarily fill out vacancies to lessen the burden of some ministers, in his characteristic style Modi surprised all pundits by going for a major overhaul.