Assam Current affairs : Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi appointed as Deputy Leader of House in Rajya Sabha, in todays daily Assam Current affairs season we will discuss about this topic briefly.
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Highlights : Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi appointed as Deputy Leader
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Union Minister of Minority Affairs on July 19, 2021, was appointed as Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha.
• Naqvi has earlier held the post of Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs earlier.
• The position for the Deputy Leader became vacant when Piyush Goyal, Commerce and Industry Minister was made the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha after Thawarchand Gehlot was appointed as Governor of Karnataka before the cabinet reshuffle.
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