PM Modi is set to conduct his first cabinet meeting today, June 10, at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence in the evening. Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive year on Sunday, June 9.
In his oath taking ceremony that took place in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, he was accompanied by 30 cabinet ministers, 36 Ministers of State and 5 Minister of State (Independent Charge) and allies of the National Democratic Alliance. Their cabinet portfolios have not been revealed yet and will be announced shortly.
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List of Ministers approved
The list of Cabinet Ministers approved by PM Modi, include Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Jairam Gadkari, JP Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Manohar Lal, HD Kumaraswamy, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Pralhad Joshi, ,Jual Oram, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Bhupendar Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annpurna Devi, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep SIngh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, G Kishan Reddy, Chirag Paswan and C R Patil.
Additionally, the following took oath as for the office of Ministers of State, Jitin Prasada (who won from Pilbhit), Shripad Yesso Naik (North Goa), erstwhile MoS Finance Pankaj Chaudhary (Maharajganj), Krishan Pal (Faridabad), erstwhile MoS Home Affairs Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur), V. Somanna (Tumkur), S. P. Singh Baghel (Agra), Sobha Karandlaje (Bengaluru North), Shantanu Thakur (Bangaon) and Bandi Sanjay Kumar (Karimnagar), among others.
Meanwhile, Ajit Pawar who was expected to be offered the portfolio of a Cabinet Minister, instead was offered Minister with Independent Incharge which he clearly denied saying, “it didn’t feel right” and expressed his disappointment.
Shiv Sena’s Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao and BJP’s Inderhit Rao Singh have accepted the Independent Charge portfolio and were present in yesterday’s oath taking ceremony.
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Ministers excluded from Modi’s Cabinet 3.0
A total of 37 ministers have dropped from functioning under Modi’s leadership for his third term. Out of these, 18 of them had to give up their portfolios because of losing the Lok Sabha elections. From this list, some prominent names were the heavyweight union cabinet ministers from Modi’s 2nd government – Smriti Irani (former Minister of Women and Child Development), Anurag Thakur(former Minister of Sports) and Narayan Rane (former Minister of MSMEs).
Ms Irani left the ministry due to her loss at the general elections. She contested from UP’s Amethi and lost by 1.6 lakh votes to Congress loyalist Kishori Lal Sharma. In contrast, Thakur and Rane have won the Lok Sabha seats from their respective constituencies of Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur and Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who lost to Shashi Tharoor in a close contest, is also missing from the new government.
