PM reshuffles Cabinet, Pranab Mukherjee is new Indian Foreign minister

October 24, 2006 was appointed the while veteran Congressman  took his place as  in a minor expansion-cum-reshuffle of his 29-month-old government by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Kannada actor-turned-politician M H Ambareesh made his debut in the as.

, an leader and a protege of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, who had to resign last year following allegations of influencing the police in a case of electoral malpractices against his brother, returned to the government, again as Minister of State for Water Resources.

took over.

Cabinet Ministers

 * Manmohan Singh : Prime Minister
 * Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
 * Ministry of Planning
 * Department of Atomic Energy
 * Department of Space
 * Pranab Mukherjee : External Affairs
 * A K Antony : Defence
 * Arjun Singh : Human Resource Development
 * Sharad Pawar : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
 * Lalu Prasad : Railways
 * Shivraj Patil : Home
 * Ram Vilas Paswan : Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel
 * S Jaipal Reddy : Urban Development
 * P Chidambaram : Finance
 * Mahavir Prasad : Small Scale Industries, Agro & Rural Industries
 * P R Kyndiah : Tribal Affairs
 * T R Baalu : Shipping; Road Transport & Highways
 * Shankersinh Vaghela : Textiles
 * Kamal Nath : Commerce & Industry
 * H R Bhardwaj : Law & Justice


 * Raghuvansh Prasad Singh: Rural Development
 * Priyaranjan Dashmunsi : Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs
 * Mani Shankar Aiyar : Development of North Eastern Region, Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs and Sports
 * Meira Kumar : Social Justice & Empowerment
 * A Raja : Environment & Forests
 * Dayanidhi Maran : Communication & Information Technology
 * Anbumani Ramdoss : Health & Family Welfare
 * Sis Ram Ola : Mines
 * Murli Deora : Petroleum and Natural Gas
 * Sushil Kumar Shinde : Power
 * A R Antulay : Minority Affairs
 * Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs
 * Ambika Soni : Tourism and Culture
 * Saifuddin Soz : Water Resources
 * Shibu Soren : Coal
 * Santosh Mohan Dev : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
 * P C Gupta : Company Affairs
 * Kapil Sibal : Science & Technology and Ocean Development Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
 * Renuka Choudhury : Women and Child Development
 * Subodh Kant Sahay : Food Processing Industries
 * Vilas Muttemwar : Non-Conventional Energy Sources
 * Kumari Selja : Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation.


 * Praful Patel : Civil Aviation
 * G K Vasan : Statistics and Programme Implementation
 * Oscar Fernandes : Labour & Employment Ministers of State
 * E Ahamed : External Affairs
 * Suresh Pachauri : Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs
 * B K Handique : Chemical and Fertilisers; Parliamentary Affairs
 * Panabaka Lakshmi : Health & Family Welfare
 * Dasari Narayan Rao : Coal & Mines
 * Shaqeel Ahmed : Communications & Information Technology
 * Rao Inderjit Singh : Defence
 * Naranbhai Rathwa : Railways
 * K H Muniappa : Road Transport & Highways
 * M V Rajashekharan : Planning
 * Kantilal Bhuria : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
 * Manik Rao Gavit : Home Affairs
 * Sri Prakash Jaiswal: Home Affairs
 * Prithviraj Chavan : Prime Minister's Office
 * Taslimuddin : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.


 * Suryakanta Patil : Rural Development & Parliamentary Affairs
 * Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi : Human Resource Development
 * R Velu : Railways
 * S S Palanimanikkam : Finance
 * S Regupathy : Home Affairs
 * K Venkatapathy : Law & Justice
 * Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan : Social Justice & Empowerment
 * E V K Elangovan : Textiles
 * Kanti Singh : Heavy Industries
 * Namo Narayan Meena : Environment & Forests
 * Akhilesh Singh : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
 * Pawan Kumar Bansal : Finance
 * Anand Sharma : External Affairs
 * Ajay Maken : Urban Development
 * M M Pallam Raju : Defence
 * Akhilesh Das : Steel
 * Chandrasekhar Sahu : Rural Development
 * Ashwani Kumar : Industries
 * D Purandareshwari : Human Resource Development
 * Dinshaw Patel : Petroleum & Natural Gas
 * T Subbirami Reddy : Mines
 * Jairam Ramesh : Commerce
 * Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav: Water Resources
 * M H Ambareesh : Information and Broadcasting.