Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: In a major Cabinet reshuffle, Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal replaced Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, who has been moved to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Rijiju, who had frequent run-ins with the Supreme Court over judicial appointments, was named as law minister on July 7, 2021.
The Sports Minister and the Minister of State for Minority Affairs at that time, Rijiju had got the coveted portfolio following the resignation of senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Rijiju had in November last year said the collegium system of making appointments in the apex court and high courts was “alien” to the Constitution. In January, he wrote to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud for the inclusion of government nominees in the collegium system.
