Ranjan Singh is among the 43 leaders joining the cabinet berth. He took oath in the presence of PM Modi, Union minister Amit Shah and other central leaders
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Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency representative and Member of Lok Sabha, RK Ranjan Singh was inducted as Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education at the union cabinet expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ministry.
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, popularly known as RK Ranjan who was sworn in as Union Minister of State on Wednesday was born on September 1, 1952 in Manipur’s Kongba Makha Nandeibam Leikai village. After graduating from Imphal’s Dhana Manjuri College, he earned his master’s degree in Geography in 1972 from Guwahati University and later a PhD on “problems of land-use” in Manipur.
After teaching in the colleges of Manipur, he joined Manipur University (MU) as an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences. He was appointed the registrar at the University and served from 2004 to 2008. In 2013, he joined the BJP and contested the Lok Sabha elections in the very next year. However, his debut was unsuccessful. In the 17th Lok Sabha elections held in 2019, he was elected as to the Lok Sabha from the Inner Manipur parliamentary constituency on BJP’s ticket.
Ranjan Singh, 69, a government retired officer and a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forest, is among the 43 leaders joining the cabinet berth. He took oath in the English in the presence of PM Modi, Union minister Amit Shah and other central leaders.
Those who were sworn in include:
| CABINET MINISTERS |
| 1. Shri Narayan Tatu Rane |
| 2. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal |
| 3. Dr. Virendra Kumar |
| 4. Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia |
| 5. Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh |
| 6. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw |
| 7. Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras |
| 8. Shri Kiren Rijiju |
| 9. Shri Raj Kumar Singh |
| 10. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri |
| 11. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya |
| 12. Shri Bhupender Yadav |
| 13. Shri Parshottam Rupala |
| 14. Shri G. Kishan Reddy |
| 15. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur |
| MINISTERS OF STATE |
| 1. Shri Pankaj Choudhary |
| 2. Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel |
| 3. Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghel |
| 4. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar |
| 5. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje |
| 6. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma |
| 7. Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh |
| 8. Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi |
| 9. Smt. Annpurna Devi |
| 10. Shri A. Narayanaswamy |
| 11. Shri Kaushal Kishore |
| 12. Shri Ajay Bhatt |
| 13. Shri B. L. Verma |
| 14. Shri Ajay Kumar |
| 15. Shri Chauhan Devusinh |
| 16. Shri Bhagwanth Khuba |
| 17. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil |
| 18. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik |
| 19. Dr. Subhas Sarkar |
| 20. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad |
| 21. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh |
| 22. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar |
| 23. Shri Bishweswar Tudu |
| 24. Shri Shantanu Thakur |
| 25. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai |
| 26. Shri John Barla |
| 27. Dr. L. Murugan |
| 28. Shri Nisith Pramanik |
The President administered the oath of office and secrecy to the above members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday.