Five ministers resign from the union Cabinet, a major reshuffle in Modi’s Cabinet.

Five ministers have resigned and more are expected to, sources said today, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mega reshuffle. 

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Santosh Gangwar were the first to quit the Union Cabinet . 

Sadananda Gowda, Debashree Chaudhuri , Sanjay Dhotre and Ratan lal kataria have also resigned. 

Mr Nishank was Education Minister and Santosh Gangwar was Labour Minister. Both have reportedly given health reasons in their resignation letters. 

According to Labour Ministry sources, Mr Gangwar paid for his ministry’s poor handling of the migrants and jobs crisis in the pandemic. 

This is the first revamp of the Council of Ministers since PM Modi started his second term in May 2019.