Narendra Modi Cabinet 3.0
Modi 3.0 Cabinet Formation: Six former chief ministers take oath 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).
Modi 3.0 Cabinet Formation : Jyotiraditya Scindia, Chirag Paswan take oath as ministers
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.
Modi 3.0 Cabinet Formation : Who are the non-BJP MPs taking oath as ministers?
As many as 11 non-BJP NDA MPs are taking oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today. They include HD Kumaraswamy of the JD(S), Rajiv Ranjan Singh of the JD(U), Chirag Paswan of the LJP (Ram Vilas), Jitan Ram Manjhi of HAM and Jayant Chaudhary of the RLD among others.
Modi 3.0 Cabinet Formation: 72 ministers taking oath today, 61 from BJP
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.
Modi 3.0 Cabinet Formation: Meet the ministers in Narendra Modi Cabinet
Here is the list of ministers (tentative) likely to take oath today:
Amit Shah, Mansukh Mandaviya, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Jitendra Singh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Hardeep Singh Puri, H D Kumaraswamy, Chirag Paswan, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju, Giriraj Singh, Jayant Chaudhary, Annamalai, ML Khattar, Suresh Gopi, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Ramnath Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Bandi Sanjay, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Pralhad Joshi, Chandrashekhar Choudhary, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Jitin Prasad, Pankaj Chaudhary, B L Verma, Lalan Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Anupriya Patel, Pratap Rao Jadhav, Annapurna Devi, Raksha Khadse, Shobha Karandlaje, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Rao Inderjeet Singh, Ram Das Athawale, and Harsh Malhotra.(30)
Ministers of State (independent charge)
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Dr. Jitendra Singh
3. Arjun Ram Meghwal
4. Jayant Chaudhary
5. Prataprao Jadhav
Ministers of State
1. Jitin Prasada
2. Sripad Yesso Naik
3. Pankaj Chaudhary
4. Krishan Pal
5. Ramdas Athawale
6. Ramnath Thakur
7. Nityananad Rai
8. Anupriya Patel
9. V Somanna
10. Pemmasani Chandrasekhar
11. SP Singh Baghel
12. Shobha Karandlaje
13. Kirti Vardhan Singh
14. B L Verma
15. Shantanu Thakur
16. Suresh Gopi
17. L Murugan
18. Ajay Tamta
19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar
20. Kamlesh Paswan
21. Bhagirath Choudhary
22. Ravneet Singh
23. Satish Dubey
24. Sanjay Seth
25. Durga Das Uikey
26. Raksha Khadse
27. Sukanta Majumdar
28. Savitri Thakur
29. Tokhan Sahu
30. Raj Bhushan Choudhary
31. BRS Verma
32. Harsh Malhotra
33. Nimuben Bambhniya
34. Murlidhar Mohol
35. George Kurian
36. Pabitra Margherita
TDP’s Ram Mohan Naidu takes oath as youngest minister in Modi 3.0 Cabinet
The son of senior TDP leader and former Union Minister Yerran Naidu, Ram Mohan Naidu, is 36 years old.
7 women included in Narendra Modi’s Union council of ministers: Here’s the full list
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third consecutive term at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday along with 71 ministers. The Union council of ministers sworn in along with Prime Minister Modi includes 7 women from a total of 72. There were 10 women ministers in the previous council of ministers, which dissolved on June 5. Those who did not make it to the council of ministers this time include former Union Minister Smriti Irani, Minister of State Dr Bharti Pawar, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Darshana Jardosh, Meenakshi Lekhi, and Pratima Bhoumik.
Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP): A Rajya Sabha member, Nirmala Sitharaman was the Union finance minister in the previous government. Sitharaman is one of two women in the Union Cabinet. This is her third consecutive term in the Union Cabinet.Annapurna Devi (BJP): An OBC leader from Jharkhand, Annapurna Devi the second woman in the Union Cabinet. She is seen as a key figure in consolidating BJP’s support ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state. Previously associated with the RJD, Annapurna Devi has seen a meteoric rise within the BJP ever since she joined the latter after the death of her husband. She has served as minister at the state level in Jharkhand and undivided Bihar.Savitri Thakur (BJP): Savitri Thakur (46) was sworn-in as a Minister of State on Sunday. A prominent tribal leader form Madhya Pradesh, she won from the Dhar seat in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, after being denied a ticket in the 2019 edition.Nimuben Bambhaniya (BJP): Nimuben Bambhaniya, inducted as a minister of state, is one of three women to win from Gujarat on a BJP ticket. The 57-year-old defeated Aam Aadmi Party’s Umesh Makwana by a huge margin of 4.55 lakh votes in Bhavnagar constituency.Raksha Khadse (BJP): Minister of State Raksha Khadse (37), the daughter-in-law of former BJP leader Eknath Khadse, is a three term MP from Maharashtra. After her husband Nikhil committed suicide in 2013 after a narrow loss in the Maharashtra Legislative Council election to NCP leader Manish Jain, she contested and won the Lok Sabha elections in Raver in 2014 against Jain. She won again in 2014, by a margin of more than three lakh votes. Shobha Karandlaje (BJP): Shobha Karandlaje (57), a vocal critic of religious extremism from Karnataka, previously served as the Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. A close confidante of state BJP strongman B S Yediyurappa, Karandlaje is a three-time Lok Sabha member. Karandlaje won from Bangalore North Lok Sabha segment by a margin of 2,59,476, defeating M V Rajeev Gowda of the Congress, and became Bengaluru’s first ever woman MP. Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal): Anupriya Patel, who returns to the Union council of minister, is a prominent leader from the Other Backward Class (OBC) Kurmi community and daughter of the late Dr Soneylal Patel, founder of Apna Dal. She was Minister of state for commerce in the previous government. She defeated Samajwadi Party’s Ramesh Chand Bind by a margin of 37,810 votes in the Mirzapur seat inf Uttar Pradesh.
Source – financialexpress & hindustantimes