Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new minister for, law & justice porfolios also gets IT,telecom

Senior BJP leader and party spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad was on Tuesday named the new telecom minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet. Like his predecessor in the UPA government, Kapil Sibal, Prasad will hold both communications and law & justice portfolios.
Born on August 30, 1954, in Patna, Prasad, a lawyer and politician, was deputy leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He holds a masters degree in political science from Patna University and also a law degree.
Ravi Shankar (born 30 August 1954) is an Indian lawyer and politician, deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha,[1] the upper house of the Parliament of India, and a Union minister holding Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ministry of Law and Justice in Government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is a member of right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a distinguished senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He represents Bihar in the Rajya Sabha. He held the position of Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal and Mines, the Ministry of Law and Justice, and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting during the National Democratic Alliance government under the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.He was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the third term.He is a member of BJP and RSS.
He began his political career as a student leader in the 1970s organising protests against the late Indira Gandhi’s government. He also worked in the student movement in Bihar under the Jayaprakash Narayan’s leadership and was imprisoned during the Emergency.
During his college days, Prasad was assistant general secretary, Patna University Students Union, and member of the senate, finance committee, arts & law faculties of the university.