Union minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday resigned from the post of health minister ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's big Cabinet reshuffle. From November 2014 to the end of the first term of the Modi government, JP Nadda was the health minister. In 2019, as the PM Modi government came back to power for the second time, Harsh Vardhan was given the responsibility of this department again. Harsh Vardhan was Delhi's health minister in the '90s and played a crucial role in the Pulse Polio programme. The health minister, who was also elected in WHO's executive board, was at loggerheads with states and state ministers who criticised the government's vaccine policy

Source: Hindustan Times July 07, 2021 09:33 UTC