Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Here is the full list of ministers in the new government
Having
notched up a thumping victory in Lok Sabha Elections 2019, the
Bharatiya
Janata Party
(BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was on
Thursday sworn in for a second term in office. Led by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, more than 50 leaders of the BJP and other alliance
partners in the NDA were administered the oath of office and secrecy
by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Apart
from Modi, some of the most prominent names in the new Union Cabinet
are those of BJP President Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani,
Nitin Gadkari, D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas
Paswan and Ravi Shankar Prasad. A surprise entrant in the list of
ministers was former foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.The portfolios of the sworn-in ministers are yet to be announced. While many incumbent ministers were among those who took oath, several minsters in the first stint of the Modi government were also left out. The most high-profile among those who will not be in the second Modi Cabinet are Arun Jaitley, who had requested PM Modi on Wednesday that he should not be made part of the new government, Sushma Swaraj, Radha Mohan Singh, Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha and Maneka Gandhi. Read More
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