Governor Ganeshi Lal on Sunday administered oath to a 21-member new council of ministers of Naveen Patnaik, a day after he asked all his ministers to resign.

 
As many as 13 cabinet ministers and eight ministers of state (Independent charges) took oath at a grand event at the convention hall of Lok Seva Bhawan here on Sunday.  

The cabinet ministers are Jagannath Saraka, Niranjan Pujari, Ranendra Pratap Swain, Pramila Mallick, Usha Devi, Prafulla Kumar Mallick, Pratap Keshari Deb, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Pradip Kumar Amat, Naba Kisore Das, Ashok Chandra Panda, Tukuni Sahu and Rajendra Dholakia.

Similarly, Samir Ranjan Dash, Ashwini Kumar Patra, Pritiranjan Ghadei, Srikanta Sahu, Tusharkanti Behera, Rohit Pujari, Rita Sahu and Basanti Hembram took oath as Ministers of state with independent charges.