Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, resigns as Communications Minister – Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw is the new minister of Communications.

In a surprise move the Telecom Minister, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, resigned from the Cabinet, yesterday. In his place, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, has taken over as the Minister of Communications. Shri Vaishnaw, a former IAS officer and Rajya Sabha member from Odisha, is the Minister of Railways, Communications and Information Technology (IT). He belongs to Rajasthan and has studied Management at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in the US. As an IAS officer, Shri Vaishnaw has worked in the PMO, during the prime ministership of Shri Vajpayee and has handled the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) framework.