Union Minister takes Additional Charge of Environment Ministry

New Delhi May 17: As we knew that today morning Central Government Union minister Anil Dave has passed away, from this perspective, Dr Harsh Vardhan, the Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, has been given additional charge of the Environment Ministry.

Dr.Harsh Vardhan was elected to the Delhi Assembly that year from Krishna Nagar constituency in east Delhi and went on to retain that seat in subsequent elections.

In 2014, he contested the Lok Sabha election for the first time and was elected from Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi.

A longtime RSS activist, Dr Harsh Vardhan was appointed as the health minister when the Narendra Modi government came into power in 2014, a post he held for 5 months.



Dave, an RSS activist since his college days, was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2009 and renominated for a second term. He was a river conservationist, as evidenced by his travels and writings about the Narmada river.