Modi 3.0 With 72 Ministers Take Oath, Nine New Faces In Cabinet

While a lot of well-known names returned to the Union Council of Ministers, nine new faces have been inducted in the Cabinet. Of these, five are from allied parties of BJP in the NDA.

• Manohar Lal Khattar

• HD Kumaraswamy

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan

• Jitan Ram Manjhi

• Lallan Singh

• Ram Mohan Naidu

• Annapurna Devi

• Chirag Paswan

• CR Patil

• Jitin Prasada

• Shripad Naik

• Pankaj Chaudhary

• Krishan Pal Gurjar

• Ramdas Athawale

• Ram Nath Thakur

• Nityanand Rai

• Anupriya Patel

• V Somanna

• Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani

• SP Singh Baghel

• Kirtivardhan Singh

• Shobha Karandlaje

• Shantanu Thakur

• Suresh Gopi

• BL Verma

• L Murugan

• Ajay Tamta

• Bandi Sanjay Kumar

• Kamlesh Paswan

• Bhagirath Chaudhary

• Satish Chandra Dubey

• Sanjay Seth

• Ranveet Singh Bittu

• Durga Das Uikey

• Raksha Khadse

• Sukanta Majumdar

• Savitri Thakur

• Tokhan Sahu

• Raj Bhushan Choudhary

• Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma

• Harsh Malhotra

• Nimuben Bambhania

• Murlidhar Mahol

• George Kurian

• Pabitra Margherita

Thirty Cabinet ministers took oath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. Of these, five Cabinet berths went to allies—Janata Dal (Secular), Hindustani Awami Morcha, Janata Dal United, Telegu Desham Party and Lok Janashakti Party (Ram Vilas).

Five Ministers of State (Independent Charge) — Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav and Jayant Chaudhary — were also sworn in.

• Rajnath Singh (BJP)

• Amit Shah (BJP)

• Nitin Gadkari (BJP)

• JP Nadda (BJP)

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP)

• Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP)

• S Jaishankar (BJP)

• Manohar Lal Khattar (BJP)

• HD Kumaraswamy (JD(S))

• Piyush Goyal (BJP)

• Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP)

• Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM)

• Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh (JDU)

• Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP)

• Dr Virendra Kumar (BJP)

• Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP)

• Pralhad Joshi (BJP)

• Jual Oram (BJP)

• Giriraj Singh (BJP)

• Ashwini Vaishnaw (BJP)

• Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP)

• Bhupender Yadav (BJP)

• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (BJP)

• Annapurna Devi (BJP)

• Kiren Rijiju (BJP)

• Hardeep Singh Puri (BJP)

• Mansukh Mandaviya (BJP)

• G Kishan Reddy (BJP)

• Chirag Paswan (LJP(RV))

• CR Patil (BJP)

Rao Inderjit Singh has been retained as MoS (independent charge) for another term. He was in charge of Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Planning.

Chirag Paswan, son of late Ram Vilas Paswan, administered the oath of office. This will be his first stint on the post.