All the PM's men

The tourism and culture portfolio has been given to Ambika Soni.

Making her debut in the Union Council of Ministers, the 62-year-old Sonia Gandhi loyalist had hogged national limelight as president of the Indian Youth Congress during the Emergency in 1975.

Closely associated with late Sanjay Gandhi, she was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1976 and was made All India Mahila Congress president in 1998.

She has been general secretary of the All India Congress Committee from 1999 onwards and has been a member of several parliamentary and ministerial consulatative committees.

President A P J Abdul Kalam administers oath of office to Ambika Soni.

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images