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Narendra Modi Government 2.0: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank appointed as the new HRD minister

Updated : May 31, 2019 02:00 PM IST

Nishank, former Uttarakhand chief minister, won from Haridwar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The post was earlier held by Prakash Javadekar.

The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government that took oath on Thursday has appointed Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank as the minister of human resource development.

Nishank, former Uttarakhand chief minister, won from Haridwar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide 303 seats out of the total of 543 while the opposition Congress party won just eight more seats than its abysmal 2014 performance. In all, BJP and its allies—the NDA—won 353 seats with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance topped 92 seats.

The post was earlier held by Prakash Javadekar. An official spokesperson of the BJP, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Maharashtra in 2008 and re-elected from Madhya Pradesh in 2014.

Before taking charge as the HRD minister, he was information and broadcasting minister, minister of state for environment, forests and climate change, and minister of state for parliamentary affairs.

Narendra Modi Government 2.0: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank appointed as the new HRD minister

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