CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI ■ ■ tirupati l monday l june 10, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l anantapur EDITION Prime Minister Narendra Modi and along with his ministers after the swearing-in ceremony a the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar also seen | Shekhar Yadav Coalition and continuity in Modi Rajnath, Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Jaishankar in top team RA J E SH K UMAR T HA K UR @ New Delhi PRIME Minister Narendra Modi returned to power on Sunday with almost all his top-ranked ministers, giving a clear indication that he will take forward the policies and agendas set in the NDA-II government. However, the Modi 3.0 government will have to take its coalition partners along. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 72-member cabinet comprising 30 cabinet ministers, 5 ministers with independent charge, and 36 ministers of state at the forecourts of the Rashtrapti Bhavan. The event was attended by about 8,000 guests, which included specially invited foreign dignitaries. With the oath taken for a third consecutive term, Modi also became the first non-Congress leader and the second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru to remain in power for three consecutive terms. Dressed in a white kurta with a matching bluecolured jacket, Modi took the oath in Hindi as the head of NDA-III government. In the 2024 general election, the BJP did not achieve its target of winning of 370 Lok Sabha seats on its own as it got only 240 while the NDA as a whole won 293 seats. Notably Modi dropped three senior leaders — , Anurag Thakur (elected but not inducted), Smriti Irani (lost the election), and Rajeev Chandrasekhar (lost) — though there were speculation they might be included in the cabinet. Among the 30 cabinet ministers who took the oath included Nirmal Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hardeep Puri, Giriraj Singh, Dr Jitendra Singh, Ram Das Athwale, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Meghawal, Bhupendra Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya, Sarvanad Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju, G Krishan Reddy, Nityanand Rai, Dharamendra Pradhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pralhad Joshi, Virendra Kumar, SP Singh Baghel, L Murgun, and Anupriya Patel. Chouhan, Nadda, Khattar among new ministers Representation from across states, sections, and classes RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR @ New Delhi prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new cabinet reflects a pan-India presence as it has representation from across 24 states and Union territories. The ministers belong to various sections, classes, and backgrounds. Though the BJP did not fare well in Uttar Pradesh, the representation of ministers from this state is at 9 – higher than other states and UTs. Bihar has 8 ministers, Maharashtra and Gujaraat have 6 ministers each, while Karnataka has 5. As assembly elections in Bihar is in 2025 and BJP with JDU and other local allies is aiming to win big in assembly elections, the state was given 8 ministers spread across its allies JDU ,LJP and HAM. ut of the 72 ministers inducted in the cabinet, 43 ministers have more than 3 terms in the ministry while 39 are with past ministerial experiences. Thirty-four have already served in state legislatures. Notably , 23 ministers inducted in the third term cabinet of Modi government have experience in working as ministers in states and 27 are from OBC, 10 from Schedule C a s t e, a n d 5 f r o m S T communities. Among the most notable inductions are Suresh Gopi and George Kurien from Kerala. Also, ministerial berths have been given to 5 MPs from various minority communities. This time, the cabinet has more experienced politicians as ministers than the NDA’s first and second terms. With a target of making India the world’s third largest economy in next five years, PM Modi has five former chief ministers— Jitan Ram Manjhi from Bihar, H D Kumaraswami from Karnataka, Shivraj Singh Chauhan form Madhya Pradesh, Manohar Lal Khattar from Haryana, and Sarbananda Sonowal from Assam. poll-break BJD defeat: Pandian quits politics Former bureaucrat V K Pandian on Sunday announced his withdrawal from active politics following the BJD’s drubbing in both the assembly and Lok Sabha polls. “My intent in joining politics was only to assist Naveen Babu, and now I consciously decide to withdraw from active politics,” he said | P5 ‘Curtains down on public service’ Former Union Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday said that his 18-yearlong stint in public service has come to an end. “Today curtains down on my 18-year stint in public service, of which three years I had the privilege to serve with PM @ narendramodi ji’s TeamModi2.0, “ he wrote on X Kurnool boy bags All India Rank 8 in JEE-Advanced K K a lya n K r i s h n a K u m a r @ Vijayawada hues of devotion Scores of devotees carry ‘Kalasa’ (holy water) to mark the initiation of the three-day Modakondamma Jatara in Paderu of Alluri Sitarama Raju district on Sunday | Express JEE-Advanced results out, top ranker scores 355/360 K a v i ta B a je l i - D att @ New Delhi India batter Virat Kohli walks back after getting out to Pakistan pacer Naseem Shah at the Nassau County Cricket Stadium on Sunday | ap Ved Lahoti from IIT Delhi zone topped this year’s Joint Entrance Exam-Advanced (JEE Advanced) scoring a record 355 out of 360 marks. Dwija Dharmeshkumar Patel of IIT Bombay zone is the top-ranked female candidate. She scored 322 and her all-India rank is 7, according to IIT Madras which conducted the exam this year. Aditya from Delhi zone bagged the second rank followed by Bhogalpalli Sandesh of Madras zone at the third position. Others in the top 10 are Aditya (IIT Delhi zone), Bhogalpalli Sandesh (IIT Madras zone), Rhythm Kedia (IIT Roorkee zone), Putti Kushal Kumar (IIT Madras zone), Rajdeep Mishra (IIT Bombay zone), Koduri Tejeswar (IIT Madras zone), Dhruvi Hemant Doshi (IIT Bombay zone) and Alladabona SSDB Sidhvik Suhas (IIT Madras zone). Four of the top 10 rank-holders are from IIT-Madras. The maximum number of candidates have qualified from the IITMadras zone, followed by the IIT Delhi Zone and the IIT Bombay zone. As many as 48,248 candidates out of the 1,80,200 who had appeared for papers 1 and 2 in JEE (Advanced) 2024 have qualified, IIT-Madras said. Koduru Tejeshwar from Andhra Pradesh secured All India Rank (AIR) 8 in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)- Advanced 2024. A student of FIITJEE-Vijayawada, Tejeshwar is a native of Krishnagiri in Kurnool district. He had secured AIR 83 in JEE Mains exam. Counselling for Joint Seat Allocation (JoSAA) will begin on Monday . Tejeshwar studied at the Montessori School in Kurnool from Grade 1 to 7. He continued his studies from Grade 8 to Intermediate at FIITJEE- Vijayawada. A topper in school, Tejeshwar had bagged a gold medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics held in Poland in 2023. He was one of the five students selected from across K Tejeshwar country by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai for the Olympiad. Tejeshwar told TNIE that he aspires to pursue B.Tech in Computer Science at IIT Bombay Fur. ther, he plans to become a researcher. Speaking about his success mantra, he said he followed the study timings suggested to him by the college faculty for securing a top rank. His parents, Sekhar Koduru and Krishnaveni, both government teachers in Kurnool district, were delighted to learn that Tejeshwar secured a top rank. IIT-M conducted the exam on May 26 and released the results on Sunday , Carlos wins 1st french open title Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest men’s player to win Majors in all three surfaces. The 21-year-old prevailed 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 against Alexander Zverev in Paris on Sunday | P11 Three LS MPs from Andhra find spot in Modi’s Cabinet 3.0 Cabinet ministers Rajnath Singh Amit Shah Nitin Gadkari JP Nadda Shivraj Singh Chouhan Nirmala Sitharaman S Jaishankar Manohar Lal Khattar HD Kumaraswamy Piyush Goyal Dharmendra Pradhan Jitan Ram Manjhi Lalan Singh Sarbananda Sonowal Virendra Kumar Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu Pralhad Joshi Jual Oram Ashwini Vaishnaw Giriraj Singh Jyotiraditya Scindia Bhupender Yadav Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Annapurna Devi Kiren Rijiju Hardeep Singh Puri Mansukh Mandaviya G Kishan Reddy Chirag Paswan CR Patil P H a r ee s h @ Vijayawada Ministers of State with independent charge Three Lok Sabha MPs from Andhra Pradesh — two representing the TDP and one from the BJP — have made their way into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet 3.0. This is the highest number of MPs from Andhra Pradesh who have been inducted into the Union Cabinet since 2014. During Modi’s first term, senior TDP leader P Ashok Gajapathi Raju was given a Cabinet berth. In 2019, the BJP contested the elections alone. As it did not win any Lok Sabha seats, there was no representation from the State in the Cabinet. From the TDP Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, , who secured a hat-trick win from Srikakulam, and first-time MP from Guntur Pemmasani Chandrasekhar have been chosen. The son of former union minister Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Ram is well-versed in Hindi and English. Pemmasani, a doctor by profession, is the wealthiest MP in the country with assets worth over `5,000 crore. The surprise pick was BJP’s Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma, a first-time MP from Narasapuram Lok Sabha constituency Varma started . his political career with the BJYM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha). He secured an electoral P4 win in his second attempt. Rao Inderjit Singh Jitendra Singh Arjun Ram Meghwal Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav Jayant Chaudhary Ministers of State Jitin Prasada Shripad Naik Pankaj Chaudhary Krishan Pal Gurjar Ramdas Athawale Ram Nath Thakur Nityanand Rai Anupriya Patel V Somanna Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani SP Singh Baghel Shobha Karandlaje Kirti Vardhan Singh BL Verma Shantanu Thakur Suresh Gopi L Murugan Ajay Tamta Bandi Sanjay Kumar Kamlesh Paswan Bhagirath Chaudhary Satish Chandra Dubey Sanjay Seth Ravneet Singh Bittu Durga Das Uikey Raksha Khadse Sukanta Majumdar Savitri Thakur Terrorists open fire at bus with pilgrims in J&K, 9 dead F aya z w a n i @ Srinagar At least people were killed and 43 injured when a bus carrying pilgrims plunged into a gorge after coming under terrorist fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Sunday evening. As the terrorists opened fire, the driver lost control of the vehicle and the 53seater bus fell into a gorge, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Reasi, Mohita Sharma said. Sharma said the bus was on its way from Shiv Khori to Katra when it was ambushed in the Kanda area of Pouni, which falls on the border of Reasi and Rajouri districts. “The rescue operation has been completed and nine people have died in the incident,” the SSP said. Police found empty cartridges near the site of the attack. An official said eight pilgrims died on the spot while another died while being rushed to the hospital. “Nineteen injured have been referred to Reasi hospitals while 25 injured were rushed to Rajouri hospitals for treatment,” he said. As per doctors treating them, some of the injured are in critical condition. Asked whether any of the dead or injured were hit by bullets, the SSP said, “It is being ascertained”. The pilgrims were from Uttar Pradesh. The damaged bus after it plunged into a gorge following an attack by suspected terrorists, in Reasi district of J&K on Sunday | PTI Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), “The Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi took stock of the situation and directed me to constantly monitor the situation and to ensure all possible assistance to the families.” Express read Far right set to rise in EU? Brussels: The first major estimates coming out of the European Union parliamentary elections on Sunday suggest that the hard right will rise in the legislature despite a series of scandals in Germany, the bloc’s biggest nation. The exit poll in Germany indicated that the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, rose to 16.5% from 11% in 2019 | P9 Swearing-in: CS inspects venue Vijayawada: Chief Secretary Neerabh Kumar Prasad has directed officials to make elaborate arrangements for the swearing-in ceremony of TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu as Chief Minister on June 12. Neerabh, along with DGP Harish Kumar Gupta, and senior officers, visited the venue of the ceremony at IT Park near Kesarapalli village on Sunday | P4
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