PM Modi Takes Oath For 3rd Time, several former Chief Minister part of new Cabinet
A total of 30 Cabinet rank ministers, 36 Ministers of State and 5 Ministers of State with Independent charge are taking oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
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09 June, 2024 09:15 pm IST
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Narendra Modi has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of India for a record-equalling third term, paving the way for the formation of the third consecutive government of the National Democratic Alliance at the Centre. While the NDA has been in power since 2014, this is the first time that the Bharatiya Janata Party has failed to get a majority on its own. Allies such as the Telugu Desam Party of Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), with 16 and 12 seats respectively, have got ministerial berths and their portfolios will be known shortly.
A total of 72 ministers are being sworn in along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A resounding 61 of them are BJP ministers while 11 of them belong to NDA partners. A total of 30 Cabinet rank ministers, 36 Ministers of State and 5 Ministers of State with Independent charge are taking oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister, marking his return to the Union Cabinet after a gap of 5 years. Nadda had previously served as the Health minister in the first term of the Modi government. Narendra Modi has been sworn in as the Prime Minister along with Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar as ministers.
As many as 6 former chief ministers are part of the Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This list includes Shivraj Singh Chouhan (MP), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), Rajnath Singh (UP), Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam), HD Kumaraswamy (Karnataka) and Jitan Ram Manjhi (Bihar).
Jual Oram, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annapurna Devi, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, G Kishan Reddy, Chirag Paswan, CR Patil, Rao Inderjeet Singh (MoS), Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Pratap Rao Jadhav, Jayant Chaudhary, Jitin Prasada (MoS), Shripad Naik and Pankaj Chaudhary (MoS) have taken oath as ministers.
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