Modi takes oath as PM for 3rd term but with reduced power
Narendra Modi of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday June 09, 2024 took oath as Prime Minister for a third term but with reduced power as compared to his last two terms.
New Delhi: Narendra Modi of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday June 09, 2024 took oath as Prime Minister for a third term but with reduced power as compared to his last two terms.
The BJP failed to win enough seat needed to form a government in New Delhi though it emerged as the single largest party with 240 seats.
A minimum of 273 MPs are necessary to form a government with simple majority.
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Hence the BJP, which had 303 MPs in the last Lok Sabha, is relying on the support from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD (U) and Andhra Pradesh CM designate Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and other smaller parties that are part of the NDA.
Along with Modi, 71 MPs also took oath as ministers. Of them, 33 are Cabinet Ministers, 05 are ministers with independent charge, and 36 are Ministers of State (Mos).
The portfolios of the ministers have not been announced yet.
List of Cabinet Ministers, MoS
- Rajnath Singh (BJP)
- Amit Shah (BJP)
- Nitin Gadkari (BJP)
- JP Nadda (BJP)
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP)
- Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP)
- S Jaishankar (BJP)
- Manohar Lal Khattar (BJP)
- HD Kumaraswamy JD (S)
- Piyush Goyal (BJP)
- Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP)
- Jitan Ram Manjhi (Hindustani Awam Morcha)
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh (Janata Dal U)
- Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP)
- Dr Virendra Kumar (BJP)
- Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP)
- Pralhad Joshi (BJP)
- Jual Oram (BJP)
- Giriraj Singh (BJP)
- Ashwini Vaishnaw (BJP)
- Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP)
- Bhupendra Yadav
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (BJP)
- Annpurna Devi (BJP)
- Kiren Rijiju (BJP)
- Hardeep Singh Puri (BJP)
- Mansukh Mandaviya (BJP)
- G Kishan Reddy
- Chirag Paswan (LJP)
- C R Patil
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Jitendra Singh (BJP)
- Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP)
- Kirti Vardhan Singh (BJP)
- BL Verma (BJP)
- Satish Chandra Dubey (BJP)
- Pabitra Margherita (BJP)
- Savitri Thakur (BJP)
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary (BJP)
- Tokhan Sahu (BJP)
- Durga Das Uikey (BJP)
- Nityanand Rai (BJP)
- Jitin Prasada (BJP)
- SP Singh Baghel (BJP)
- Sukanta Majumdar (BJP)
- Krishan Pal Gurjar (BJP)
- Suresh Gopi (BJP)
- George Kurian (BJP)
- L Murugan (BJP)
- Sanjay Seth (BJP)
- Chandra Prakash (BJP)
- Pankaj Chaudhary (BJP)
- Ajay Tamta (BJP)
- Shripad Naik (BJP)
- Harsh Malhotra (BJP)
- Bandi Sanjay (BJP)
- Raksha Khadse (BJP)
- Murlidhar Mohol (BJP)
- Shobha Karandlaje (BJP)
- Bhagirath Choudhary (BJP)
- Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya (BJP)
- V Somanna (BJP)
- Shantanu Thakur (BJP)
- Kamlesh Paswan (BJP)
- Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani (TDP)
- Prataprao Jadhav (Shiv Sena - Eknath Shinde)
- Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma (BJP)
- Ramdas Athawale (RPI)
- Ramnath Thakur (JDU)
- Jayant Chaudhary (RLD)
- Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal)
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to PM Modi and his cabinet colleagues at a special ceremony held on the lawns of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Heads of the states from India's neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean Region including Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Nepal CM Prachanda, and a surprise guest Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu attended the event.
Prominent guests from home included Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, billionaires Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani and others.
Notable names in the last cabinet but missing this time are Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur, and Narayan Rane.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who lost to Shashi Tharoor in a close contest, is also missing from the new government.
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