Out: Prasad, Vardhan, Javadekar, Pokhriyal

The exit of 12 ministers came as a surprise element as well-known faces like health minister Harsh Vardhan, information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad left the government on Wednesday. The factors that led to their exit seem to range from slow pace of meeting targets to inadequate communication of policy and political goals in respective ministries