Hours after Kiren Rijiju was relieved from his duty as the Union Law Minister, the Minister of State for Law and Justice Satya Pal Singh Baghel has been moved to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

After Rijiju was dropped from the Law Ministry, Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal was allotted the portfolio of Union Minister of State (Independent in-charge) for the Ministry of Law in addition to already held portfolios as the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Culture.

As per a convention, a ministry which is already headed by a Minister of state with independent in-charge cannot have a deputy, which is because Baghel was moved to Health Ministry.

A press communique of the Rastrapati Bhavan stated that the President of India on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed to assign SP Baghel as the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in place of the Minister of State for Law and Justice.

The move of cabinet re-shuffle by the government was surprising to drop Rijiju from Law and appoint him as the Union Minister of Earth Sciences earlier this morning.

SP Baghel, a former Mulayam Singh Yadav loyalist and Bahujan Samaj party member, joined the BJP in 2014.

Baghel was brought into politics by late Mulayam Singh Yadav, Baghel was a police officer who back in the time used to be in the security team of Yadav while he was the Chief Minister.

Later, Yadav brought Baghel into politics and gave various positions within the party and later in 1998, Baghel made his electoral debut fighting from UP’s Jalesar Lok Sabha seat on a SP ticket , which he won and repeated the same in the consecutive 1999 and 2004 polls.

Later in 2009 after being denied ticket, Baghel joined BSP and lost the contest against SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav in Firozabad but a year later the BSP made him a Rajya Sabha member but in 2014, he joined BJP and again contested Firozabad Lok Sabha seat, this time against son of SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav but was defeated.

Later in 2017 UP assembly elections, the BJP fielded him from a Scheduled Caste reserved Tunda seat in Firozabad, where he marked victory and was made the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Minor Irrigation and Underground Water. He stepped down from the post after getting elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019 general polls. In 2021, he was inducted to PM Modi’s cabinet.

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