Dharmendra Pradhan will continue to be the education minister in the new Narendra Modi government while Jayant Chaudhary and Sukanta Majumdar will be the ministers of state for education, the President Secretariat announced on Monday. Chaudhary has also been deputed as the MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Majumdar will also hold charge as MoS in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. Pradhan, who was inducted in the Union Cabinet for the third time on Sunday, has returned to the Lok Sabha after 15 years, after he won from Sambalpur in Odisha, defeating the Biju Janata Dal's Pranab Prakash Das by a substantial margin of more than 1.19 lakh votes. He was tasked with the implementation of the ambitious new National Education Policy (NEP) in his previous tenure as the education and skill development minister. Pradhan, a prominent face of the BJP in Odisha, was also seen as a probable choice for the state's first BJP chief