<p>Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has been given the post of Minister of Jal Shakti in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p>Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is an MP from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. In 2019 General Election, he won against Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan CM, Ashok Gehlot.</p>.<p>In 16th Lok Sabha election, he held the post of the Union minister of state for agriculture in September 2017.</p>.<p>Shekhawat's political career started in 1992 when he became the president of the student union of Jai Narayan Vyas University-Jodhpur. He was active in social works and youth awareness activities.</p>.<p>He started his Lok Sabha journey as a member of the Standing Committee on Finance in 2014.</p>.<p>From 27 July 2016 onwards he was also Member, All India Council of Sports (AICS), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India.</p>.<p>He as a co-convenor organized Swadeshi Mela in Jodhpur under the umbrella of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch from 2002 to 2006. It was a successful event having approximately 10 lakh people coming to this event. This encouraged the selling of lots of Swadeshi goods and was appreciated by senior BJP leaders.</p>.<p>The President appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy to the Members of the Council of Ministers. Here’s a quick lowdown at the new Modi Cabinet.</p>.<p><strong>Cabinet Ministers</strong></p>.<p>Rajnath Singh<br />Amit Shah<br />Nitin Jairam Gadkari<br />DV Sadananda Gowda<br />Nirmala Sitharaman<br />Ram Vilas Paswan<br />Narendra Singh Tomar<br />Ravi Shankar Prasad<br />Harsimrat Kaur Badal<br />Thaawar Chand Gehlot<br />Subrahmanyam Jaishankar<br />Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’<br />Arjun Munda<br />Smriti Zubin Irani<br />Harsh Vardhan<br />Prakash Javadekar<br />Piyush Goyal<br />Dharmendra Pradhan<br />Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi<br />Pralhad Joshi<br />Mahendra Nath Pandey<br />Arvind Ganpat Sawant<br />Giriraj Singh<br />Gajendra Singh Shekhawat<br /> <br /><strong>Ministers of State (Independent Charge)</strong></p>.<p>Santosh Kumar Gangwar<br />Rao Inderjit Singh<br />Shripad Yesso Naik<br />Jitendra Singh<br />Kiren Rijiju<br />Prahalad Singh Patel<br />Raj Kumar Singh<br />Hardeep Singh Puri<br />Mansukh L Mandaviya<br /> <br /><strong>Ministers of State</strong></p>.<p>Faggansingh Kulaste<br />Ashwini Kumar Choubey<br />Arjun Ram Meghwal<br />General (Retd.) V. K. Singh<br />Krishan Pal<br />Danve Raosaheb Dadarao<br />G Kishan Reddy<br />Parshottam Rupala<br />Ramdas Athawale<br />Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti<br />Babul Supriyo<br />Sanjeev Kumar Balyan<br />Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao<br />Anurag Singh Thakur<br />Angadi Suresh Channabasappa<br />Nityanand Rai<br />Rattan Lal Kataria<br />V Muraleedharan<br />Renuka Singh Saruta<br />Som Parkash<br />Rameswar Teli<br />Pratap Chandra Sarangi<br />Kailash Choudhary<br />Debasree Chaudhuri</p>
<p>Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has been given the post of Minister of Jal Shakti in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p>Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is an MP from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. In 2019 General Election, he won against Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan CM, Ashok Gehlot.</p>.<p>In 16th Lok Sabha election, he held the post of the Union minister of state for agriculture in September 2017.</p>.<p>Shekhawat's political career started in 1992 when he became the president of the student union of Jai Narayan Vyas University-Jodhpur. He was active in social works and youth awareness activities.</p>.<p>He started his Lok Sabha journey as a member of the Standing Committee on Finance in 2014.</p>.<p>From 27 July 2016 onwards he was also Member, All India Council of Sports (AICS), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India.</p>.<p>He as a co-convenor organized Swadeshi Mela in Jodhpur under the umbrella of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch from 2002 to 2006. It was a successful event having approximately 10 lakh people coming to this event. This encouraged the selling of lots of Swadeshi goods and was appreciated by senior BJP leaders.</p>.<p>The President appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy to the Members of the Council of Ministers. Here’s a quick lowdown at the new Modi Cabinet.</p>.<p><strong>Cabinet Ministers</strong></p>.<p>Rajnath Singh<br />Amit Shah<br />Nitin Jairam Gadkari<br />DV Sadananda Gowda<br />Nirmala Sitharaman<br />Ram Vilas Paswan<br />Narendra Singh Tomar<br />Ravi Shankar Prasad<br />Harsimrat Kaur Badal<br />Thaawar Chand Gehlot<br />Subrahmanyam Jaishankar<br />Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’<br />Arjun Munda<br />Smriti Zubin Irani<br />Harsh Vardhan<br />Prakash Javadekar<br />Piyush Goyal<br />Dharmendra Pradhan<br />Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi<br />Pralhad Joshi<br />Mahendra Nath Pandey<br />Arvind Ganpat Sawant<br />Giriraj Singh<br />Gajendra Singh Shekhawat<br /> <br /><strong>Ministers of State (Independent Charge)</strong></p>.<p>Santosh Kumar Gangwar<br />Rao Inderjit Singh<br />Shripad Yesso Naik<br />Jitendra Singh<br />Kiren Rijiju<br />Prahalad Singh Patel<br />Raj Kumar Singh<br />Hardeep Singh Puri<br />Mansukh L Mandaviya<br /> <br /><strong>Ministers of State</strong></p>.<p>Faggansingh Kulaste<br />Ashwini Kumar Choubey<br />Arjun Ram Meghwal<br />General (Retd.) V. K. Singh<br />Krishan Pal<br />Danve Raosaheb Dadarao<br />G Kishan Reddy<br />Parshottam Rupala<br />Ramdas Athawale<br />Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti<br />Babul Supriyo<br />Sanjeev Kumar Balyan<br />Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao<br />Anurag Singh Thakur<br />Angadi Suresh Channabasappa<br />Nityanand Rai<br />Rattan Lal Kataria<br />V Muraleedharan<br />Renuka Singh Saruta<br />Som Parkash<br />Rameswar Teli<br />Pratap Chandra Sarangi<br />Kailash Choudhary<br />Debasree Chaudhuri</p>
