Ahead of Cabinet expansion, Babul Supriyo too resigns apart from 13 other ministers

July 7: Ahead of the Cabinet expansion Union ministers have started submitting their resignations. The Cabinet reshuffle and oath-taking ceremony is scheduled to be held at 6 pm on Wednesday. The latest one to add to the list who resigned is Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Babul Supriyo. He took to announce his decision on Facebook that he was asked to quit. In a post on Facebook, the former Minister of State said he is “extremely happy” that he left the stint “without a spot of corruption on me”. Mr Supriyo congratulated some leaders from Bengal who are going to be part of the refreshed Union cabinet, and added – “I am surely sad for myself.”

The other Union ministers who have resigned from their positions so far are:

1. Harsh Vardhan, Union health minister
2. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Union education minister
3. DV Sadananda Gowda, Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister
4. Santosh Gangwar, Labour minister
5. Ravi Shankar Prasad
6. Prakash Javadekar
7. Raosaheb Danve
8. Thaawarchand Gehlot
9. Ratan Lal Kataria
10. Debashree Chaudhari
11. Sanjay Dhotre
12. Pratap Sarangi
13. Ashwini Chaube, MoS Health