Ram Vilas Paswan gets Consumer Affairs, Food and PDS

Ram Vilas Paswan has been given the post of Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Ram Vilas Paswan is an eight-time MP from Bihar and six-time Union Minister.

He started his political career as a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly and became famous by winning 1977 Lok Sabha polls, which were held the post- Emergency. He won by then record margin of 4 lakh votes from Hajipur constituency.

He entered Union Ministry in 1989 during V.P. Singh's cabinet, as labour minister.
Later he became held various ministries under different Prime Ministers, railway, communication, coal etc.

He made his party appearance as a Dalit party of Bihar.

In 2004, he became Minister of chemicals and fertilizers and steel under UPA-1 but due to some tractions with Congress, he withdrew his party from Congress alliance of 2009 and also lost the seat.

Later in 2014, he became minister for food and public distribution and consumer affairs. He effectively worked against the pulses and sugar crises and reformed public distribution System.

In 2019 as well, he is appointed as the cabinet minister.

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.

Cabinet Ministers

Raj Nath Singh
Amit Shah
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
D.V. Sadananda Gowda
Nirmala Sitharaman
Ramvilas Paswan
Narendra Singh Tomar
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
Arjun Munda
Smriti Zubin Irani
Harsh Vardhan
Prakash Javadekar
Piyush Goyal
Dharmendra Pradhan
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Pralhad Joshi
Mahendra Nath Pandey
Arvind Ganpat Sawant
Giriraj Singh
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Rao Inderjit Singh
Shripad Yesso Naik
Jitendra Singh
Kiren Rijiju
Prahalad Singh Patel
Raj Kumar Singh
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh L Mandaviya

Ministers of State

Faggansingh Kulaste
Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Arjun Ram Meghwal
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
Krishan Pal
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
G Kishan Reddy
Parshottam Rupala
Ramdas Athawale
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Babul Supriyo
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
Anurag Singh Thakur
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
Nityanand Rai
Rattan Lal Kataria
V Muraleedharan
Renuka Singh Saruta
Som Parkash
Rameswar Teli
Pratap Chandra Sarangi
Kailash Choudhary
Debasree Chaudhuri