PM Modi Takes Oath For 3rd Term With 72 MPs Joining His Council Of Ministers

Narendra Modi, at age 73, was sworn in for a third consecutive term as Prime Minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday, alongside 72 ministers. This achievement puts him on par with Jawaharlal Nehru, who also secured three consecutive terms as India’s first Prime Minister.

While PM Modi has secured another five years in power, this is the first time he will be sharing power after the BJP lost its outright majority in the Lok Sabha after a fiercely fought election.

In keeping with ‘coalition dharma’, the new Council of Ministers will be 72-strong and comprise 11 ministers belonging to NDA partners. The Modi 3.0 team will include 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 36 Ministers of State. The portfolios will be announced later.

The Council of Ministers will have a broad representation of social groups, including 27 Other Backward Classes (OBC), ten Scheduled Castes (SC), five Scheduled Tribes (ST), and five minorities. A record 18 senior Ministers will be heading major ministries. There were also a few notable names missing from the new Cabinet.

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Cabinet Ministers:

Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Manohar Lal Khattar, HD Kumaraswamy, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jitam Ram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh/Lallan Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Birendra Kumar, Ram Mohan Naidu, Pralhad Joshi, 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.

Minister of State (Independent Charge):

Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitender Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav, Jayant Chaudhary.

Ministers of State:

Jitin Prasada, Shripad Naik, Pankaj Rao Choudhary, Krishan Pal Gurjar, Ramdas Athawale, Ramnath Thakur, Nityanand Rai, Anupriya Patel, V Somanna, Chandra Shekhar Pemmasani, SP Singh Baghel, Sobha Karandlaje, Kirti Vardhan Singh, BL Verma, Shantanu Thakur, Suresh Gopi, L Murugan, Ajay Tamta, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Kamlesh Paswan, Bhagirath Choudhary, Satish Chandra Dubey, Sanjay Seth, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Durgadas Uikey, Raksha Khadse, Sukanta Majumdar, Savitri Thakur, Tokhan Sahu, Rabhushan Choudhary, Srinivasa Varma, Harsh Malhotra, Nimuben Bambhaniya, Murlidhar Mohol, George Kurien, Pabitra Margherita.

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