Two Young Guns Among Seven New Ministers in Indian Cabinet
by Divvy Kant Upadhyay
NEW DELHI, Apr 6: The much-awaited reshuffle of the Union Cabinet had a few surprises thrown in on Sunday. While young Turks Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jitin Prasada made an entry as expected, former chief election commissioner M S Gill was given charge of sports, a department moved from the disgruntled Mani Shankar Aiyar.
In all, seven ministers were inducted into the Union council of ministers. While six were inducted as ministers of state, Gill was sworn in as minister of state with independent charge.
Among the others sworn in was former Puducherry CM V Narayanaswamy and Santosh Bagrodia, MP from Rajasthan, Ramesh Oraon of Jharkhand and Jorhat MP B K Handique.
Only three portfolios were confirmed till last reports came in. While Gill got sports, Scindia was given IT and Communications. Bagrodia was made MoS for coal.
The Congress’s youth brigade which made a debut in the cabinet missed Dausa MP Sachin Pilot. Ally NCP’s Supriya Sule and DMK’s Kanimozhi, whose names were making the rounds, were also given a miss.
Jyotiraditya Sinha
Jyotiraditya Sinha at 37 years is one of the youngest parliamentarian of India. A website dedicated to the young scion of the Scindia Family states that Jyotiraditya was born on the 1st of January in 1971 in Mumbai. Educated at the Doon School, Dehradun and later at Harvard and Stanford universities in USA, the son of Late Shri Madhav Rao Scindia has worked as an investment banker with companies like Merril Lynch and Morgan Stanley. He has been elected twice to the Parliament from the constituency of Guna in Madhya Pradesh.
He is married to Priyadarshi Raje Scindia and has two children, a 13 year old son Yuvraj and a six year old daughter Ananya.
Jitin Prasad
35 year old Jitin Prasada is the son of Former Congress Vice President Jitendra Prasad who was a key advisor once upon a time to Shri Rajiv Gandhi the then Prime Minister. Even Jitin has studied at The Doon School in Dehradun. He did his higher education in commerce from the Sri Ram College of Commerece, Delhi and then did his MBA from Indian Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi. He has worked with BPL and DSP Meryl Lynch.