The Rise & Fall Of Mansoor KhanBy: Rizwan Asad It was the 90’s decade when the then unknown man named Mohammed Mansoor Khan was working in a small fish shop. His parents, hailing from Tamil Nadu, had landed in Bengaluru in the 50’s decade & settled here in Mackan Road in Shivajinagar.Right at the young age of 18, Mohammed Mansoor Khan, had made up his mind to work instead of going to college. So he started working as a sales representative, but of course after his small stint in the fish shop.It was much later, that he had decided to put his mind & his heart in academics & thereby ended up obtaining a degree of B.Com from the Bangalore University.Once that done he had started hunting for a job but was unable to find a proper job in Bengaluru, so he left for Dubai in the late decade 0f the 90’s, where he worked as a sales representative in a jewellery business run by one of his relatives. It was here that he had gained the knowledge of the gold trade.After making his comeback from Dubai & picking up the ropes of the gold trade, instead of Bengaluru he had headed straight to Chennai, then Madras where he had succeeded in getting a post graduate diploma in his by now favorite arena of jewellery design. After passing through & acquiring the entire ropes of the jewellery field he returned to Bangalore & joined the Heera Islamic Business Group run by Noweera Sheikh before setting up the roots of his own firm later known more popularly as IMA Jewels.So this in a nutshell is the short & sweet or rather a brief & bitter history of the fraudster Mohammed Mansoor Khan & his equally fraud company known as IMA Jewels.But Mr. Mansoor Khan could not keep the lid on his fraud dealings a secret for long. As very soon a probe into his Rs 3,000 crores ponzi scam perpetrated by none other than I Monetary Advisory (IMA) based in Bengaluru.And the so called firm IMA had ended up cheating several depositors which has of late taken up several fraudulent twists & turns.Not only this the Special Investigation Team is now seriously & actually investigating the entire fraud scam case & is also probing into the wheeling dealings of the IMA CEO Mohammed Mansoor Khan’s past activities, for which there are also allegations that the man who is known to have a firm & a strong political connections & disappeared from the country, was actually aided & abetted by a few corrupt officials in the so called police department.On the contrary the allegations made that the Bengaluru police did not take the Revenue Department’s public notice seriously stating that IMA was carrying our fraudulent activities in the month of November 2018 seriously, some sources say that they are looking into whether any police officials were involved in covering up Mansoor Khan’s tracks since the year 2015. Whereas the truth of the fact is that in the month of April 2017, Mansoor Khan had filed a case against Janasri TV CEO Lakshmi Prasad Vajpai making serious allegations that Lakshmi Prasad Vajpai was trying to extort Rs 15 crores from him.But the million dollar question is that did Lakshmi Prasad Vajpai really have any incriminating evidence against Mansoor Khan & his so called IMA’s illegal dealings?But on the other hand the other sources say that their probe has unraveled several details about Mansoor Khan & his sudden accumulation of the hugh wealth. Which brings us to another million dollar question as to who is Mansoor Khan in reality?A Small Time StartActually speaking Mansoor Khan had made his career start off by joining the firm named as Heera Islamic Business Group run by none other than the lady known as Nowhera Shaikh, where Mansoor Khan had allegedly learned the inner workings of the so called Ponzi scams by showcasing them as halal investments. On this aspect & respect a source averred, “Mansoor Khan had learned where to buy the gold for cheap & bring it back to sell it for higher prices at Heera Gold. One of the 1st ever businesses that he had set up was IMA Jewels. ”In the year 2006, Mansoor Khan had decided to establish a similar financial advisory company. As a resident of Shivajinagar, Mansoor Khan had allegedly rubbed shoulders with the so called gangsters of the surrounding arena. While a gangster was the one bringing in the investment, Mansoor was allegedly the salesman who was trying to lure more & more investors. Thus, began the advisory firm IMA.While another source added, “At that time, there was no one who took Mansoor seriously as he did not possess a good reputation due to the people he mingled with. So, the company was dissolved by the year 2008.”The rise & rise & the ultimate fall of IMA & Mansoor KhanBy the month of December 2013, Mansoor Khan had allegedly decided to take a different route namely to gather the support of the religious leaders from his community in order to drive his by now hard earned investment into his new venture. Later on Mansoor Khan & his closest ally Nasir Hussein had started the firm named I Monetary Advisory in the month of December 2013.In this regard one more source had this particular input to offer, “Mansoor Khan by now had already began convincing the ulema in Bengaluru & moreover several other districts in Karnataka by stating that his company has been in existence since the year 2006. Although it was technically not true, but the ulema were convinced by his plan. Mansoor Khan had, in fact, promised 10 times more than what was invested. Of the profits earned, he promised to give 70% of it to the investors, retain 15% for the company expenses, use 10% for the charitable works & keep the remaining money for himself. He promised the ulema that he would build hospitals & also open a school. ”By the year 2015, IMA had over 10,000 investors & the numbers only kept increasing. But in the year 2016, Mansoor Khan had opened IMA Jewels in Shivaji Nagar.The next source adds, “IMA Jewels used to give out 20% to 50% discounts on gold to its investors at its showroom in Shivaji Nagar. This is when the Income Tax Department began getting suspicious. In the month of April 2017, the Income Tax Department had conducted a search & also a seizure operation at the varied properties owned by Mansoor Khan. He was under investigation for not filing the returns since the year 2015 & also the year 2016 fiscal. In fact the I-T firm had received a tip off from the RBI in the year of 2015 itself,”And then the IMA offered the members of the Muslim community the offer of the so called “halal” investment options. And according to the Sharia law, it is considered “haram” (prohibited) to draw interests (riba) on money. The “Halal” options are considered ethical wherein the amount can be invested in trade of commodities accepted under the Islamic law & a profit is shared with the investors.Between the year 2016 & the year 2018, the IMA Group of Companies had already started a school, a multi-specialty hospital, a supermarket chain, gold trade business & also a construction company under its umbrella. Not only this another Jewellry showroom was opened in Jayanagar in the bygone year of 2018.Adding a pile on to this some sources stated that Mansoor Khan had allegedly got 3 other influential ulema in Bengaluru to endorse his company IMA & also got the powerful politicians to attend most of the so called IMA functions.Mansoor Khan had also allegedly worked for several election campaigns of a senior politician in Bengaluru & is also said to have rubbed shoulders with those in power in their time in the state.Under the Scanner of the state & even the central agenciesInvestigators say that Mansoor Khan was under the scanner of the RBI, the I-T Department, the Ggovernment & also the police. However, with no investor coming forward to file their complaints, Mansoor Khan had allegedly got away for 3 cosecutivec years. In fact the RBI had first issued a notification to the Karnataka Government in the year 2015 that IMA was indulging in a Ponzi scam scheme. The Revenue Department, however, dropped its probe when it found that the investors were listed as partners, according to the investment bonds & not depositors in IMA.According to the Karnataka Protection of Interest of the Depositors in Financial Establishments Act of the year 2006, partners of a firm are excluded as “depositors.” In the case of IMA, every investor was termed a “partner” as per the original bonds. The Karnataka Government had in the year 2015 decided to avoid prosecuting Mansoor Khan due to this loophole. Sources in the Revenue Department say that a cabinet minister at the time had intervened & ensured that IMA got a clean chit.In the year 2018, when a section of the investors stopped getting their monthly dividends, the company once again came under RBI scanner. This time, the Revenue Department decided to probe the matter & had also issued a public notice regarding the IMA’s fraudulent activities in the month of November 2018. Central Crime Branch police say that the economic offenses wing was already investigating Mansoor Khan when a similar halal investment company namely Ambident Marketing was exposed for indulging in a Ponzi scam scheme. “Many people who had invested in Ambident Marketing had also invested in IMA. But in the month of November 2018, there was not a single complaint against IMA & so they could not do anything. The case was even given to the CID department but they could not do much either,” a CCB source added.When IMA was shut down on 10th June 2019, investors were left with just 2 audio clips purported to be suicide notes recorded by Mansoor Khan. However, on 13th June 2019 some sources learned that he had fled to Dubai with his 4th wife & 2 children. A raid was conducted on several of his properties since 10th June 2019 & on Monday the home of his 3rd wife Tabassum was raided, “We recovered 1.5 kg gold, 2.5 lakh cash & also some documents. In fact Mansoor’s 3rd wife is cooperating with the investigation & has also given a laptop in which she says Mansoor Khan had kept crucial information. The matter is looked into. Period!
IMA Jewels case: CCB raids at Mansoor Khan’s wives in Bengaluru
Seize RS 33 CR JEWELS 26 IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES OF IMA OWNER FOUND
The probe team said it found 33 cr worth it jewels,precious gems and documents and has identified 26 immovable properties including commercial buildings,land,school property, and apartments, which are said to be in the name of mansoor khan.
During the raid at ima jewels showroom at jayanagar here sit seized 43 kg gold worth 13cr 5,864 carat of diamond worth 17.6cr 520 kg of silver worth 1.5cr precious gems worth 1.5cr it said. The sit found 1.5 kg of gold 1.5 kg od silver and 2.69 lakh cash from tabassum`s house in shivajinagar.
Central Crime Branch (CCB) conducted raids at three different locations at the residences of wives of I Monetary Advisory (IMA) jewels founder Mansoor Khan who is an accused perpetrating financial fraud in Bengaluru.
Raids were conducted in Shivajinagar, the residence of Khan’s first wife and two different residences in Tilak Nagar related to his second and third wife.
CCB collected some important documents of investments and details of Khan’s financial issues, 1.5-kilogram gold and Rs 2.7 lakh cash.
Karnataka government had constituted an 11-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged fraud by the IMA, which has an estimated Rs 200 crore investment of Muslim women alone. Over 38 thousands of complaints have been filed by people who had invested in IMA.
18 complaints filed in high court to direct the state government to handover the IMA case to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Several investors also hail from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
Police have also registered a case against IMA Jewels and Khan and teams have been formed to nab him. Earlier, seven directors of different entities linked to Khan had been arrested.
It is alleged that IMA Jewels, with Muslims as its prime investors, has not paid interests on investments for the last three months.
Earlier, scores of investors staged protests outside IMA Jewels’ office in Sivaji Nagar, demanding the firm to return their money.
Congress suspends Shivajinagar MLA Roshan baig for anti-party activities
Hitting out at Congress leaders for the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls, Roshan Baig had recently held former Karantaka CM Siddaramaiah’s “arrogance” and Dinesh Gundu Rao’s “immaturity” responsible for the “flop show”.
Congress suspends Karnataka leader Roshan Baig for anti-party activities
Congress on Tuesday suspended its Karnataka MLA Roshan Baig for anti-party activities.
“All India Congress Committee has approved the proposal sent by KPCC to take action against R Roshan Baig, MLA on account of his anti-party activities. He has been suspended from the party with immediate effect,” Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee said in a press statement.
Earlier in the day, KPCC chief Dinesh Gundu Rao had told media that he had sought action against Roshan Baig for his outburst against the state leadership.
As Roshan Baig is an AICC member and senior leader, action against him had to be decided by the Congress high command.
Roshan Baig’s alleged links with IMA jewels, allegedly involved in a financial fraud, duping thousands of investors, were also brought to the notice of central leadership, Dinesh Gundu Rao had said.
Hitting out at Congress leaders for the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls, Roshan Baig had recently held former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s “arrogance” and Dinesh Gundu Rao’s “immaturity” responsible for the “flop show”.
Roshan Baig had also called KC Venugopal a “buffoon”.
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IMA Jewels founder Mohammed Mansoor’s escapes to dubai
As IMA Jewels founder Mohammed Mansoor Khan pulled off a flawless escape, his flight to Dubai has left the police in a quandary, with more questions than anwers
BENGALURU: Soon after they finished celebrating Eid, thousands of investors in IMA Jewels were in for a shock. Just a few days after the festival, they are now staring at the possibility of never getting back the money they had parked with IMA Jewels for the promise of spectacular returns.
Since June 8, when promoter Mohammed Mansoor Khan left for Dubai, no one has been able to come up with an explanation as to how Mansoor managed to escape. Police say that he left for Dubai on June 8 after having cleared his showroom of all displayed jewels and diamonds. But ask them if he took the multi-crore booty with him, bypassing officials at the airport, and they have no answer. Several questions still exist on how Mansoor managed to pull off the perfect escape.
“There are too many loopholes in how he left the country. His cars were found at the airport but the driver – his man Friday- is missing. Mansoor was also questioned by the Central Crime Branch on June 6 and was warned of police action. He disappeared within 48 hours,” an officer said. Also suspect is his decision to put the blame on Congress MLA Roshan Baig, turning the entire development into a political potboiler. For investors, there is nothing but bad news for now according to the police themselves, who pointed out that in spite of red flags raised as far back as 2014, but even then no action was taken.
“The RBI had in 2014 itself red-flagged IMA on several markers. The police could have called for documents and questioned Mansoor, but they chose to look the other way,” a police officer said.
Discussing the hawala angle, the officer added, “It seems, prima facie, that Mansoor routed the depositor’s money outside the country through hawala. Many high bracket depositors would have used hawala to deposit black money in IMA,” the officer said.
Though the agencies have their work cut out for them, the volume is huge. “The manpower and resources given are limited, given the vast scope of the investigation,” the officer admitted.While the SIT may invoke the Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments Act, 2004, critics of the law say it is neither punitive nor effective. Another law, the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance, 2019, could be invoked, earning the state the infamy of having the IMA scam as the first case to be booked under the ordinance.
“The government must hand over the case to the CBI. Most investments were done in cash, bullion and jewellery, raising serious national security concerns. They run into crores of rupees,” said a police officer, on condition of anonymity, adding that it was natural that the state would resist a CBI probe, considering the revelations of corruption that would result from one.
In response, the official police reaction has been to deny all interest in IMA till someone came ahead to file a complaint. “There were no complaints against IMA until June 9 when Mohammed Khalid Ahammed registered a complaint. People are to be blamed for investing in such companies,” said a police officer.
Bengaluru ponzi scam: 7 directors of IMA Jewels arrested
BENGALURU:
Seven directors of the city-based IMA Jewels were arrested and are being grilled by the Special Investigation Team to know their alleged role in the multi-crore ponzi scam operated by its owner Mohammed Mansoor Khan, police said on Thursday.
“On being warned against delaying the inevitable, the directors turned up at the city police commissioner’s office and surrendered on Wednesday. They were arrested and produced in a local court for our custody to interrogate them as Khan is still at large,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (central) Rahul Kumar told reporters.
The accused directors — Anwar Pasha, Arshad Khan, Dada Peer, Naveed Ahmed, Nazir Hussain, Nizamuddin and Waseem — were remanded in 10-day police custody to unearth the scam, which swindled the hard-earned savings of thousands of investors from across the state.
“As the case is being investigated by the SIT, its head B.R. Ravikanth Gowda is interrogating the accused on what went wrong leading to the IMA (I Monetary Advisory) go bust and Khan fleeing the country last week,” said Kumar.
IMA’s chartered account Iqbal Khan was also arrested on early Thursday after the directors disclosed his name and his alleged role in the scam that has rocked the state and the minority community as majority of investors and depositors in its ponzi schemes are lower and middle class Muslims.
Though the police launched a massive hunt for Khan, he is reported to have fled the country after Eid on June 5 along with his family, and huge quantity of gold ornaments, silver jewellery, diamonds and unspecified amount of cash from his posh showroom in the city’s centre.
“We are on the lookout for Khan and will seek Interpol’s help through the Union home ministry to extradite him to India after ascertaining in which country he is hiding,” said Kumar.
The ponzi scam came to light on June 10 when the IMA showroom did not open for business after a week-long closure for Eid-ul-Fitr at the end of Ramzan last week and its Managing Director (Khan) reportedly fled to Dubai or Saudi Arabia to escape the wrath of his investors as their savings are lost.
The SIT team also raided IMA’s head office and its main showroom and seized volumes of documents related to properties, assets, collaterals pledged by investors and depositors and bank accounts for investigation.
About 20,000 investors have filed a complaint with the local police station, enclosing a photocopy of documents, including passbooks showing their investments in the company.
The SIT has directed the banks to freeze the accounts of the company, Khan and his relatives to prevent any transaction.
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IMA scam unravelled in March
Investors panicked when the company started defaulting on payments
In March 2019, probably for the first time in 13 years, the I Monetary Advisory (IMA) Group, which had taken money from tens of thousands of investors across the State, defaulted on payments.
On June 9, the police received a trickle of complaints from a few citizens. In less than a week, while Eid was being celebrated, that trickle grew into a flood with more than 33,500 complaints against the group and its founder and managing director Mohammed Mansoor Khan, who is absconding.
The IMA Group had been under the scanner of several agencies, but no action had been taken. According to officials, not a single citizen had stepped forward in response to a public notice in November 2018 by the Revenue Department seeking complaints against the group for cheating investors.
Founded in 2006, the group took deposits from citizens on which monthly dividend was paid in the range of 2.75% to 8%. “Many of those who complained against Ambidant Marketing [another company allegedly involved in a similar scam] had invested in IMA as well. But they were not willing to file a complaint against IMA at the time as they were receiving dividends,” said a senior revenue official.
Initial rumblings
The situation changed in March 2019 when IMA started defaulting on payments.
“IMA has now revealed itself to be a ponzi-like scheme, which operates on the constant rotation of money, where old investors are paid with money taken from new investors. Money is ploughed into various businesses, in this case gold bullion, jewellery and real estate. If any chunk of investment is stuck or there is lack of new investors, it will disrupt the cycle and the company will go kaput. This is exactly what seems to have happened with IMA,” explained a senior police official.
With Mansoor Khan successfully giving dividends for 13 years, investigators are probing the reason for the default. In an audio message, which he recorded before he went underground, Mansoor claimed to have given Congress leader Roshan Baig ₹400 crore, which was not returned. Mr. Baig has denied the charge.
The Special Investigation Team and the Enforcement Directorate are now auditing his accounts to find out how the funds received as investments were diverted. Police sources said that in the past two years, IMA had come under severe stress.
According to a source in the police, “Mansoor, who was being blackmailed by various agencies and even some media organisations, had to make contributions to politicians to stay afloat. His attempts to borrow money from the market failed.”
When money was tight and he started defaulting on payments, he alerted investors and blamed the eight-week-long parliamentary elections for “disrupting cash flow in our market”. In a series of messages to investors, he gave several deadlines for payments in April and May, but missed all of them. As rumours grew on social media that he was planning to flee, Mansoor sent a message to investors in mid-May appealing to them not to listen to rumours and asked them to file complaints with the cyber crime cell of the police against those who were carrying out this “misinformation campaign”. He assured investors that the network was “sound enough with its gold stock and business clientele network, assets in the form of land and buildings”.
But it did little to stem the panic.
In the last message on May 27, he asked investors not to come to the IMA offices for one week as the rush of people was hampering business. Two days later, he closed the offices. He assured investors that he would pay all their dues by June 5 and re-open the offices by June 10. It is now learnt that he even held a meeting with other directors of IMA and assured them that all was well.
Police step in
In the backdrop of these initial rumblings, acting on orders from Neelamani N. Raju, DG&IGP, Karnataka State Police, the Central Crime Branch called Mansoor for questioning. “On June 6, he was questioned for over an hour. We sought documents about the financial health of his company, which he promised to submit,” said Alok Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime), Bengaluru.
But this seemed to be the tipping point. Fearing arrest, Mansoor is said to have fled the country on the night of June 8. The SIT is yet to confirm this. Hours before he absconded, he posted on Facebook: “The IMA Group has property worth ₹1,050 crore in Bengaluru. It has physical assets, but people don’t have patience, people are greedy, people are anxious, people filled with anxiety, people filled with un-Islamic life.”
BJP for central intervention
While demanding a CBI probe, BJP State president and leader of opposition B.S. Yeddyurappa said that party MPs from the State will press for intervention by the Union government on behalf of cheated investors. He was speaking to a delegation of cheated IMA investors that met him on Saturday and sought his support.
“The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has already started a probe. We also speak to the Union government to make all efforts to arrest the absconding kingpin Mohammed Mansoor Khan, said to have fled abroad. Only a CBI probe can deliver justice to the victims,” he said.
Meanwhile, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) accused politicians and a few religious heads from the minority community of providing credibility to IMA and its kingpin. It demanded a probe into their role in abetment of the crime as well.
SIT raids residences of directors
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday searched the residences of the seven IMA directors who are currently in their custody.
Six teams conducted simultaneous searches in Tusker Town, Shivajinagar, Govindapura and HBR Layout, and seized a cache of documents related to IMA.
Meanwhile, the auditor, Iqbal Khan, was questioned for the second consecutive day. “He has not been arrested, but is helping the SIT audit the accounts of the firm, to understand the scam,” said a source.
So far, the number of complaints against the company has reached 33,500.
Sources said SIT officials are preparing paper work to get a Red Corner Notice issued against Mansoor even though some suspect him of fleeing to the UAE on June 8.
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“Proud To Follow On Footsteps Of Sushma Swaraj”: S Jaishankar’s 1st Tweet
Dr S Jaishankar, a career diplomat with extensive experience in bilateral relations with China, US and Pakistan, said he was “honoured to be given this responsibility”.
Dr Jaishankar joined PM Modi’s cabinet on Thursday. (File)
NEW DELHI:
The country’s new Foreign Minister, Dr S Jaishankar, in his first tweet this morning, after he took charge of Ministry of External Affairs on Friday, said he was “proud to follow on the footsteps” of his predecessor and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj.
Dr Jaishankar, a career diplomat with extensive experience in bilateral relations with China, US and Pakistan, said he was “honoured to be given this responsibility”.
“My first tweet. Thank you all for the best wishes! Honoured to be given this responsibility. Proud to follow on the footsteps of @SushmaSwaraj ji,” he wrote.
He was one of the 57 ministers who took oath on Thursday at a glittering ceremony with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, elected for a second term with a huge mandate.
In another tweet, Dr Jaishankar wrote: “We at Team @MEAIndia continue to be at your service 24×7”.
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, Dr Jaishankar’s predecessor, was known for her prompt response to distress calls on Twitter. She leaves a legacy of being an easily-accessible foreign minister.
Soon after his Twitter debut, Dr Jaishankar also replied to the congratulatory messages from United States, France, among other countries.
Dr Jaishankar, who had received the Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind in March, was the country’s longest-serving foreign secretary in four decades between 2015 and 2018 and helped craft much of PM Modi’s foreign policy.
As the new foreign minister, S Jaishankar will be expected to bring to bear experience from his time as the Indian ambassador to China between 2009 and 2013 and help improve relations with Beijing, which were badly hit following the Doklam stand-off in 2017.
His appointment also comes at a time when India’s relations with Pakistan are at a sensitive point following the tragic terror attack in Pulwama in February that killed 40 soldiers.
Dr Jaishankar is not a member of parliament yet.
Nirmala Sitharaman gets finance ministry, Amit Shah home as Modi 2.0 portfolios announced
Former Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been appointed as the new finance minister with former home minister Rajnath Singh getting the defence portfolio in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Cabinet. Amit Shah will be the new home minister.
Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar will helm the Ministry of External Affairs, a press statement from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
Former textile minister Smriti Irani who defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi is the new Women and Child Development Minister.
Nitin Gadkari, Dharamendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal retain the portfolios that they held in the the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) first term in office.
PM Modi has also introduced a new ministry called Jal Shakti ministry which will be headed by Jodhpur MP Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Here is the full list of Union Council of Ministers and their portfolios:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and all important policy issues; and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Cabinet Ministers
1. Raj Nath Singh – Minister of Defence.
2. Amit Shah – Minister of Home Affairs.
3. Nitin Jairam Gadkari -Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
4. D.V. Sadananda Gowda Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
5. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
6. Ramvilas Paswan Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
7. Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
8. Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
9. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Food Processing Industries.
10. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
11. Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Minister of External Affairs.
12. Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Minister of Human Resource Development.
13. Shri Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs.
14. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles.
15. Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.
16. Shri Prakash Javadekar Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
17. Shri Piyush Goyal Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
18. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel.
19. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of Minority Affairs.
20. Shri Pralhad Joshi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.
21. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
22. Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise.
23. Shri Giriraj Singh Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
24. Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of Jal Shakti.
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
1. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
2. Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; and
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning.
3. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
4. Dr. Jitendra Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office;
Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;
Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and
Minister of State in the Department of Space.
5. Shri Kiren Rijiju Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
6. Shri Prahalad Singh Patel Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism.
7. Shri Raj Kumar Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power;
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
8. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs;
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
9. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Ministers of State
1. Shri Faggansingh Kulaste Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.
2. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
3. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
4. General (Retd.) V. K. Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
5. Shri Krishan Pal Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
6. Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
7. Shri G. Kishan Reddy Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
8. Shri Parshottam Rupala Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
9. Shri Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.
11. Shri Babul Supriyo Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
12. Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
13. Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development;
Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
14. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
15. Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
16. Shri Nityanand Rai Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
17. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
18. Shri V. Muraleedharan Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
19. Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
20. Shri Som Parkash Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
21. Shri Rameswar Teli Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
22. Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
23. Shri Kailash Choudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
24. Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Agencies
Rahul urges Kerala CM to take urgent steps for resolving economic crisis of farmers
Wayanad, May 31 : AICC President Rahul.Gandhi urged Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to take urgent steps in resolving the economic crisis of farmers that led to their suicides.
In a letter to Mr Pinarayi, Mr Gandhi said it was again the financial crisis faced by the farmers in general that has led to the suicide by V D Dinesh Kumar, a farmer in Panamaram, very recently.
The farmers commit suicide in fear of their piling debts.
But such unfortunate incidents happen in Kerala, even as the Government had proclaimed a morotorium on loan repayment, till December. There should be an enquiry into the cause that made Dinesh Kumar commit suicide, the Congress President said.
The Government should consider extending every possible way including financial support to Dinesh Kumar’s family, Mr Gandhi said, adding that he and his party will extend all support in ensuring the farmers a life with dignity.
Former Karnataka Minister B Renukacharya remanded to Police custody
Bengaluru, May 31 : Former Karnataka Minister and BJP MLA Renukacharya was on Friday remanded to Police custody by Special Court for Peoples Representatives in the City today.
The senior BJP leader was handed over to the Police custody as he had failed to appear before the Court despite being served with non bailable warrant against him in connection with violation of Model Code of Conduct case registered in Shivamogga Rural Police Station.
Renukacharya had come to the court to plea for recall of NBW against him.
However, the judge taking strong exception to his absence on the earlier occasions, asked Police to take him to custody.
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