Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has made a history of sorts with his swearing in on
Thursday, May 30, evening in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. He has been
sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind for another five year term and this is
the second time that Modi took oath of office and secrecy as Prime Minister.
Thus, he has become third Prime Minister in independent India after Jawaharlal
Nehru and Indira Gandhi to return to the top office for a second consecutive
term with full majority in Parliament. He
has emerged as a virtual Man of the Series in over a month long countrywide
electoral contest. Amit Shah has turned out to be like a Man of the Match with
his induction in the Cabinet today. Shah is the biggest gainer. Yet, he
genuinely deserved it because of the leading role played by him in taking the
BJP to the highest ever tally, or 303 seats, in the Lok Sabha. With average age below
60; 24 new faces are in team, 37 ministers are out. Further, 'Team Modi'
has 19 first-time ministers including Shah and Jaishankar. Former
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and Amit Shah have become another star entrant to the Team Modi
with today’s swearing in. Unlike
these two surprise entries to the new Cabinet the list of those left out
despite being Ministers in Modi’s last team is rather long. The Ministers in
the previous team who receded to the world of have-beens, or former ones, from
today are Sushma Swaraj, Maneka Gandhi, JP Nadda, Rajyawardhan Rathore, Radha
Mohan Singh, Suresh Prabhu, Satpal Singh, Jayant Sinha, Rajiv Pratap Rudi, Mahesh Sharma,Uma Bharti, Jual Oram and Ram Kripal Yadav. . Among
the outgoing lot eight time MP Maneka Gandhi is likely to be made the pro tem
Speaker to conduct the initial business of the Lower House. Former
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley could not make to the Cabinet this time and
excused himself from continuing because of his serious illness. And
those who missed the bus today despite speculations in the media about their
likely induction in the new team of Ministers are Aprajita Sarangi (Retd IAS)
from Odisha and famed lawyer and New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi. Unlike these two
who could not make to the new Ministry two others whom media thought could be dropped
from Team Modi made it to the Council of Ministers again. They are Dharmendra
Pradhan and Hardip Singh Puri. As
for the allies or parties in the NDA apart from the BJP the Lok Janashakti
Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister. Unilke LJP no one
was included from Janata Dal (United) and Apna Dal. In the case of the last of
them Anupriya Patel was a Minister of State in the last team. Among the main highlights of this evening’s
event at Rashtrapati Bhavan are: Rajnath
Singh retains seniority in terms of sequence but Nitin Gadkari appears to have
lost his position (no. 4 in the order of today’s swearing in) as Amit Shah came
in on the third position after Modi and Rajnath. Odisha
CM Naveen Patnaik, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee,
AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan did not attend the
swearing-in ceremony and were conspicuous by their absence. Here is the complete list of new ministers: Cabinet Ministers- 24 Ministers of State (Independent Charge)- 09 Ministers of State- 24
As per the Constitution, the total number of Union ministers,
including PM, shall not exceed 15 per cent of the number of members in the LS.
PM Modi can have as many as 80 ministers in the 543-member Lok Sabha. With
current appointments, the total number of Union ministers in 17th Lok Sabha is
57.
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By IndianMandarins - 2019-05-31 00:13:41
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has made a history of sorts with his swearing in on
Thursday, May 30, evening in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. He has been
sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind for another five year term and this is
the second time that Modi took oath of office and secrecy as Prime Minister.
Thus, he has become third Prime Minister in independent India after Jawaharlal
Nehru and Indira Gandhi to return to the top office for a second consecutive
term with full majority in Parliament.
He has emerged as a virtual Man of the Series in over a month long countrywide electoral contest. Amit Shah has turned out to be like a Man of the Match with his induction in the Cabinet today. Shah is the biggest gainer. Yet, he genuinely deserved it because of the leading role played by him in taking the BJP to the highest ever tally, or 303 seats, in the Lok Sabha.
As per the Constitution, the total number of Union ministers,
including PM, shall not exceed 15 per cent of the number of members in the LS.
PM Modi can have as many as 80 ministers in the 543-member Lok Sabha. With
current appointments, the total number of Union ministers in 17th Lok Sabha is
57.
With average age below 60; 24 new faces are in team, 37 ministers are out. Further, 'Team Modi' has 19 first-time ministers including Shah and Jaishankar. Former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and Amit Shah have become another star entrant to the Team Modi with today’s swearing in.
Unlike these two surprise entries to the new Cabinet the list of those left out despite being Ministers in Modi’s last team is rather long. The Ministers in the previous team who receded to the world of have-beens, or former ones, from today are Sushma Swaraj, Maneka Gandhi, JP Nadda, Rajyawardhan Rathore, Radha Mohan Singh, Suresh Prabhu, Satpal Singh, Jayant Sinha, Rajiv Pratap Rudi, Mahesh Sharma,Uma Bharti, Jual Oram and Ram Kripal Yadav.
.
Among the outgoing lot eight time MP Maneka Gandhi is likely to be made the pro tem Speaker to conduct the initial business of the Lower House.
Former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley could not make to the Cabinet this time and excused himself from continuing because of his serious illness.
And those who missed the bus today despite speculations in the media about their likely induction in the new team of Ministers are Aprajita Sarangi (Retd IAS) from Odisha and famed lawyer and New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi. Unlike these two who could not make to the new Ministry two others whom media thought could be dropped from Team Modi made it to the Council of Ministers again. They are Dharmendra Pradhan and Hardip Singh Puri.
As for the allies or parties in the NDA apart from the BJP the Lok Janashakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister. Unilke LJP no one was included from Janata Dal (United) and Apna Dal. In the case of the last of them Anupriya Patel was a Minister of State in the last team.
Among the main highlights of this evening’s event at Rashtrapati Bhavan are:
Rajnath Singh retains seniority in terms of sequence but Nitin Gadkari appears to have lost his position (no. 4 in the order of today’s swearing in) as Amit Shah came in on the third position after Modi and Rajnath.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan did not attend the swearing-in ceremony and were conspicuous by their absence.
Here is the complete list of new ministers:
Cabinet Ministers- 24
- Rajnath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Gadkari
- DV Sadananda Gowda
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Narendra Singh Tomar
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Thawarchand Gehlot
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
- Arjun Munda
- Smriti Irani
- Dr Harsh Vardhan
- Prakash Javdekar
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Prahlad Joshi
- Mahendra Nath Pandey
- Arvind Sawant
- Giriraj Singh
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)- 09
- Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Shripad Yesso Naik
- Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Kiren Rijiju
- Prahalad Singh Patel
- Raj Kumar Singh
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Ministers of State- 24
- Faggansingh Kulaste
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- General (Retd.) V.K. Singh
- Krisha Pal
- Danv Raosahe Dadarao
- G. Kishan Reddy
- Parshottam Rupala
- Ramdas Athawale
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Babul Supriyo
- Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
- Anurag Singh Thakur
- Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
- Nityanand Rai
- RattanLalKataria
- V. Muraleedharan
- Renuka Singh Saruta
- Som Parkash
- Rameswar Teli
- Pratap Chandra Sarangi
- Kailash Choudhary
- Debasree Chaudhuri
