Union Cabinet Minister Dharmendra Pradhan got portfolios of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel in the newly-formed Narendra Modi Cabinet.
Baleswar MP Pratap Chandra Sarangi, a Union Minister of State, was allocated the portfolios of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Fisheries.
It may be noted that Pradhan was a Cabinet Minister with portfolios of PNG and Skill Development and Public Enterprises during the last Modi Government.
On Friday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated the two BJP leaders from Odisha, Pradhan and Sarangi, for being inducted as Union Ministers in the Narendra Modi Cabinet 2.0.