More than 10 days after Jairam Ramesh was shifted to the ministry of rural development, invitations to a seminar organised by the Indian Law Institute on Global Environment and Disaster Management had him listed as minister of state for environment & forests. And Veerappa Moily was still listed as Union minister of law & justice, even though he’s moved to the corporate affairs ministry. Neither the current Law Minister Salman Khursheed nor the Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan were mentioned in these cards that were distributed a day before the two-day conference that started on July 23. The invitation was specifically for the valedictory session at which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was chief guest.
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