New Delhi (10.06.2024): Putting rest to every speculation over the NaMO 3.0 government getting weaker, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now being appreciated for the manner in which he handled the coalition and took oath of the office for the third consecutive term which is a short of a record for any non-Congress government.

The number of ministers in the Council of the Ministers in the Modi government has increased from 2014 when the BJP won the simple majority in the Lok Sabha elections. The number had gone further up despite BJP winning more Lok Sabha seats in 2019 but Narendra Modi accommodated more minister in 2024 as the party failed to get the required number of its own however the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is comfortably crossed the simple majority mark. The number of NDA stands around 300 with some more MPs supporting the alliance.

In 2014, Narendra Modi Cabinet took oath of the office on 27.5.2014. There were Prime Minister and 23 Cabinet Ministers, 10 MoS (Independent Charge) and 12 MoS taking the number to 46 including the PM. The number has gone up to 57 in 2019 Narendra Modi Council of Ministers with that took oath of the office on 30.5.2019. Besides Prime Minister, there were 24 Cabinet Ministers, 9 MoS (Independent Charge) and 24 MoS take the number of ministers to 58 including the PM.

The President of India has appointed Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India and on advise of the Prime Minister, the President has appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers on 09.06.2024. There are 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 MoS (Independent Charge) and 36 MoS making the list to 71. If the PM is added in it, the number goes to 72.

Cabinet Ministers

1. Raj Nath Singh
2. Amit Shah
3. Nitin Jairam Gadkari
4. Jagat Prakash Nadda
5. Shivraj Singh Chouhan
6. Nirmala Sitharaman
7. Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
8. Manohar Lal
9. H D Kumaraswamy
10. Piyush Goyal
11. Dharmendra Pradhan
12. Jitan Ram Manjhi
13. Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh
14. Sarbananda Sonowal
15. Dr Virendra Kumar
16. Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu
17. Pralhad Joshi
18. Jual Oram
19. Giriraj Singh
20. Ashwini Vaishnaw
21. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
22. Bhupender Yadav
23. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
24. Annpurna Devi
25. Kiren Rijiju
26. Hardeep Singh Puri
27. Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
28. G Kishan Reddy
29. Chirag Paswan
30. C R Patil

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. Rao Inderjit Singh
2. Dr Jitendra Singh
3. Arjun Ram Meghwal
4. Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao
5. Jayant Chaudhary

Ministers of State

1. Jitin Prasada
2. Shripad Yesso Naik
3. Pankaj Chaudhary
4. Krishan Pal
5. Ramdas Athawale
6. Ram Nath Thakur
7. Nityanand Rai
8. Anupriya Patel
9. V Somanna
10. Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
11. Prof S. P. Singh Baghel
12. Sushri Sobha Karandlaje
13. Kirtivardhan Singh
14. B. L. Verma
15. Shantanu Thakur
16. Suresh Gopi
17. Dr L Murugan
18. Ajay Tamta
19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar
20. Kamlesh Paswan
21. Bhagirath Choudhary
22. Satish Chandra Dubey
23. Sanjay Seth
24. Ravneet Singh
25. Durgadas Uikey
26. Raksha Nikhil Khadse
27. Sukanta Majumdar
28. Savitri Thakur
29. Tokhan Sahu
30. Raj Bhushan Choudhary
31. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
32. Harsh Malhotra
33. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
34. Murlidhar Mohol
35. George Kurian
36. Pabitra Margherita

(Rakesh Ranjan)