Haribhai P Chaudhary is declared as New Minister of State for Home Affairs in India - Nov 2014

Haribhai Chaudhary is Member of Parliament from Banaskantha district. Haribhai Chaudhary is selected as Minister of state in cabinet. PM Narendra Modi expanded his 1st cabinet on 9th November 2014, Sunday.  He included 21 new ministers to his council.

Haribhai has sworn in as home minister of state at Rashtrapati Bhawan. There are many factors are said to behind the selection of Haribhai Chaudhary. Haribhai belongs to OBC category from North Gujarat where OBC people are in major numbers. So this can ultimately creates vote bank of OBC people of north Gujarat.

PM Narendra Modi is balancing caste and geographic equations in his selection of ministers for cabinet and state level.  All the steps are taken with considering upcoming elections. So many changes are done in the first cabinet expansion.

There are 4 cabinet ministers, 3 minister of state with independent responsibility and 14 minister of state. The swearing in ceremony was held at Rashtrapati Bhawan and our President Pranav Mukharjee has administered the oath.