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Nine new ministers, including Lok Sabha members of Parliament Ashwini Choubey and Anant Kumar Hegde, and Rajya Sabha MP Satyapal Singh, could be inducted into Union Cabinet on Sunday morning, according to government sources.

Among others who could make Modi's Team 2019 and sworn in ministers on Sunday are former Indian Foreign Services officer Hardeep Singh Puri; Madhya Pradesh Lok Sabha MP Virendra Kumar; Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla; Lok Sabha MP from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat; former Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Alphons Kannanthanam, and Lok Sabha MP from Arrah, Bihar, Raj Kumar Singh.

Here are brief profiles of the likely new inductees in the Narendra Modi Cabinet:

Shiv Pratap Shukla

A Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, he is a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development. He was elected a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 4 consecutive times in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1996. Shukla served as a Cabinet Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government for 8 years, and is known for his work in Rural Development, Education and Prison reform during his tenure.
A law graduate with an LLB from Gorakhpur University, Shukla started off early in politics as a student leader in the 1970s. He was imprisoned for 19 months under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) during the Emergency.
Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Ashwini Kumar Choubey, a Lok Sabha MP from Buxar, Bihar, is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Estimates and Standing Committee on Energy. He is also a Member of Central Silk Board. Choubey has been elected for 5 consecutive terms to the Bihar Legislative Assembly and has held important portfolios including Health, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering as a Cabinet Minister in the Bihar government for 8 years.
Starting early in politics as the President of the Student's Union of Patna University, Choubey actively participated in the JP movement of the 1970s. He was taken into custody during the Emergency under MISA. Choubey is also credited with raising the slogan "Ghar-hhar me ho Shauchalaya ka nirman, Tabhi hoga ladli bitiya ka kanyadaan", and has helped construct 11,000 toilets for Mahadalit families.
Having faced the disastrous Kedarnath floods with his family in 2013, Choubey, who holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Zoology and has a special interest in Yoga, has also authored a book Kedarnath Trasadi .
Virendra Kumar
Virendra Kumar, a Lok Sabha MP from Tikamgah, Madhya Pradesh, has had a distinguished career in public service as a six-term Lok Sabha MP. The chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour and the joint committee on office of profit, Kumar is also a member of National Social Security Board.

During his multiple Parliament stints, Kumar has been a member of Parliamentary committees on Labour and Welfare, Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Privileges, Petroleum and Natural Gas.

He had actively participated in the JP movement of the 1970s and went to jail for 16 months under MISA during the Emergency. Kumar had initiated a movement for solving the problems faced by students and opened a library for their assistance.

Coming from the Scheduled Caste community, Kumar has dedicated his life to its service. He has been engaging the youth in removing the barriers of caste and class, and works for building orphanages, schools for divyang and old-age homes.

Academically, Kumar holds an MA degree in Economics and a PhD in Child Labour.
Anantkumar Hegde

A Lok Sabha MP from Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, Anantkumar Hegde is a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and Human Resource Development. Having been elected as an MP for the first time at the young age of 28 years, Hedge is now a fifth-term Lok Sabha MP.

Over his multiple Parliament stints, he has been a member of multiple Parliamentary standing committees like those on finance, home affa

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