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New Delhi, June 10: After securing the majority to form the government, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was administered the oath of office on Sunday, June 9. Here is a list of the council of ministers who took the oath of office.
Amit Shah
On June 9, Amit Shah was sworn in as a Cabinet member. Some of the most audacious policies of the previous government were implemented by the Gandhinagar MP, including the weakening of Article 370’s provisions. During the elections, Mr. Shah was one of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s celebrity campaigners. With a margin of approximately 7.4 lakh votes, he won his seat.
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh, the former Defence Minister of the government, defeated his closest opponent, the Samajwadi Party, by a margin of more than 1.35 lakh votes to win the Lucknow seat. One of the party’s senior leaders spent a lot of time campaigning during the election. During a campaign rally in Jammalamadugu, Andhra Pradesh, where he was running for the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Singh stated that if the government was elected a third time, “one nation, one election” would be among its prerogatives.
Nitin Gadkari
The incoming MP from Nagpur is expected to stay on as a Minister, one of the Ministers in the previous government who would find a supportive audience in the opposition. Nitin Gadkari was linked to the expansion of highways and the reform of vehicles during his previous tenure as the Minister of Road Transport and Highways. In June of last year, the newly appointed Nagpur delegate emphasised the need for top-notch roads in order to fulfill Prime Minister Modi’s goal of a $5 trillion economy.
Sitharaman Nirmal
Karnataka’s member of the Upper House is the current Finance Minister. Sitharaman held the position of Defense Minister from September 2017 to May 2019 prior to taking on the role of Finance Minister in the second term of the Modi Government. She had also taken on the role of Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Corporate Affairs, and Finance at various points during the NDA’s tenure in office since May 2014. She was elected to the Upper House for the first time in 2014, again in 2016, and again in July 2022 for a third term.
Piyush Goyal
Goyal, who has experience in both management and chartered accounting, is expected to remain in the NDA 3.0 Cabinet. Piyush Goyal has overseen multiple portfolios at various points since the NDA regained power and Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed leadership of the party. Public distribution, railroads, finance, corporate affairs, commerce, textiles, and consumer affairs are a few of these. With a margin of approximately 3.6 lakh votes, the former member of the Upper House emerged victorious from the North Mumbai constituency.
Hardeep Puri
Hardeep Singh Puri, who was re-elected to the Upper House in 2020, has held the positions of Housing and Urban Affairs Portfolio and Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He has held positions as India’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN before entering politics in 2018 from the Upper House. The former diplomat was also employed as a history lecturer at St. Stephens College in Delhi.
Pralhad Joshi
Pralhad Joshi For the fifth time, Joshi, the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Coal and Mines in the previous government, was able to maintain his seat in the Lower House while serving as the representative for Dharwad (Karnataka). Joshi attended Karnataka University in addition to earning his bachelor’s degree in arts from K.S. Arts College in Bangalore, Karnataka.
The mainstay of the Treasury’s defense against the disciplinary actions taken against opposition MPs for disrupting sessions was Mr. Joshi, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
Arjun Meghwal
Arjun Meghwal the former Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) at the Ministries of Law and Justice and Culture was elected from the Bikaner Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of more than 55,000 votes. Having been elected to the House of People in 2009,
Bhupendra Yadav
Bhupendra Yadav Member of the Upper House and Minister for Labour & Employment alongside Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav successfully contested from the Alwar constituency of Rajasthan. Mr Yadav has for long served as the campaign observer for the party in crucial states, such as Bihar during the 2015 and 2020 Assembly elections and Madhya Pradesh in 2023. He attended the Government Law College in Ajmer.
Suresh Gopi
Gopi has been appointed to the ministerial council of NDA 3.0 and has the honour of being the first person to open the account for the BJP in Kerala. By a margin of roughly 75,000 votes, he defeated the Communist Party of India’s Advocate V.S. Sunilkumar to win the Thrissur constituency. Gopi first entered politics in 2016 when she was a Rajya Sabha nominee.
Others who have been appointed into the council of ministers include H.D. Kumaraswamy, Sarbananda Sonowal, Ram Mohan Naidu, Manohar Lal Khattar, Pemmasani Chandrashekhar, Ramdas Athawale, Gajendra Shekhawat, Ramnath Thakur, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, S. Jaishankar, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Dharamendra Pradhan, Mansukh Mandviya, Chirag Paswan, Kiren Rijiju, Jayant Chaudhary, G. Kishen Reddy, Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao (Shiv Sena), and Rao Inderjit Singh (BJP) to be appointed as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Oath of office for Minister of State (MoS) administered to 36 MPs:
Among the candidates on the list are Jitin Prasada (who won from Pilbhit), Krishan Pal (Faridabad), Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur), Shripad Yesso Naik (North Goa), V. Somanna (Tumkur), S. P. Singh Baghel (Agra), Shantanu Thakur (Bangaon), Sobha Karandlaje (Bengaluru North), and Bandi Sanjay Kumar (Karimnagar), among others.
The oath of office for Minister of State was also administered to B. L. Verma, who is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha in the Upper House, and L Murugan, who lost to DMK leader A. Raja in the Nilgiris election.
