HRD is backbone of country: Newly-appointed Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal

May 31, 2019

New Delhi, May 31 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MP from Haridwar, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, who has been appointed as the Human Resources & Development (HRD) Minister in the union government, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must have thought good by giving him the responsibility, and called the ministry a backbone of country. Speaking on the controversial phases the HRD ministry went through during Smriti Irani’s tenure, Pokhriyal said, “No ministry is controversial. A ministry is ministry.”