Giriraj Singh new Indian Minister of Textiles; Pabitra Margherita MoS

10 Jun '24

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Giriraj Singh new Indian Minister of Textiles

File photo of Giriraj Singh, Minister of Textiles, Government of India. Pic: PIB

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Giriraj Singh, MP from Bihar, will be the new Minister of Textiles in Narendra Modi's NDA government.
He has previously served as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises.
Subsequently, he served as Cabinet minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries; and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.

Giriraj Singh, Member of Parliament from the Begusarai Loksabha constituency in Bihar will be the new Minister of Textiles in the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, a press communique from the President’s Secretariat said.

He has formerly served as Minister of Cooperative, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Resources Development in the Government of Bihar. During Modi’s first term he served as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises.

In May 2019, he became the Cabinet Minister of the newly formed Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. In July 2021, he became Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj in Second Modi ministry after the Cabinet reshuffle.

Pabitra Margherita, a Member of Parliament (since March 2022), representing Assam in the Rajya Sabha—the upper house of India’s Parliament, will be the Minister of State for Textiles. After joining politics in 2014, he served as a spokesperson of Assam BJP, and as prabhari of Social Media Cell of Assam BJP. He also served as Member Secretary of State Level Advisory Committee for Students and Youth Welfare, Govt. of Assam from November 2021 to March 2022.

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