Former Bureaucrat Som Parkash Among First-Timers In PM Modi's Cabinet

BJP leader Som Parkash, the lawmaker elected from the constituency of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, is one of the new faces chosen for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government. Som Parkash, 70, is a...

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