Ex-Bureaucrats As Ministers: Twitter Reacts to Cabinet Reshuffle

Nine new cabinet ministers will be inducted on Sunday.

Modi government’s biggest and the reportedly the last major reshuffle before 2019 will happen on 3 September. As a part of it, nine new ministers were named today late evening. Former diplomat, two former bureaucrats and a former police commissioner have made the cut.

Raj Kumar Singh, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Virendra Kumar, Anant Kumar Hegde and Raj Kumar Singh will be sworn in at around 10 am on Sunday. Others who will take oath include Hardeep Singh Puri, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Satya Pal Singh and Alphons Kannanthanam.

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PM Modi will meet these new ministers on Sunday over breakfast after which the swearing-in ceremony will happen.

Take a look at how Twitter is reacting to the names of new inductees.

When Ex-Bureaucrats Become Ministers

Looks like NDA govt will soon have more ex bureaucrats/cops as ministers than politicians! Is that good or bad?? #CabinetReshuffle

— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) September 2, 2017

Modi cabinet will now be a group of bureaucrats nd Ex-bureaucrats... Will ths help in 2019? Wht is the formula? #cabinetreshuffle @awasthis

— Parul Sabherwal (@parulsabherwal) September 2, 2017

So many bureaucats or police officer. Desh Pragati kar Rha Hai. #cabinetreshuffle

— Anshul Vishal (@BholaBhalaLadka) September 2, 2017

Congratulations Flooding in

@dr_satyapal congratulations Shri Satyapal Singh IPS (Retd) on being nominated as a union minister in nda govt#CabinetReshuffle

— PRITHVI G.A (@gaprithvi) September 2, 2017

@AnantkumarH congratulations Shri Anant kumar hegde on being nominated as a union minister in NDA govt#CabinetReshuffle

— PRITHVI G.A (@gaprithvi) September 2, 2017

@gssjodhpur congratulations Shri gajendra singh shekawat ji on being nominated as a union minister in nda govt#CabinetReshuffle

— PRITHVI G.A (@gaprithvi) September 2, 2017

Congratulations To @AshwiniKChoubey ji To Be Sworn in as Minister In Modi Govt.He has been a great student Leader Too💐 #cabinetreshuffle pic.twitter.com/t9PE75Zm4r

— Bibhuti Kumar Singh™ (@bibhubjp) September 2, 2017

Performance is the Metric

#cabinetreshuffle

Performance is the METRIC now in India, right until the top.
Potential the Basis. #NewIndia

— Sushil Kedia (@sushilkedia) September 2, 2017

Everything is fine. #cabinetreshuffle #hmm pic.twitter.com/vR8Kx1SWQr

— Tarun Shukla (@shukla_tarun) September 2, 2017

Hardeep Puri will bring a solid pair of hands and a well-respected voice for India on trade/WTO. Hope he gets it. #cabinetreshuffle

— Chitra Subramaniam (@chitraSD) September 2, 2017

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