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 ■ ■ DHARMAPURI l monday l june 10, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l city 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 RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR @ New Delhi PRIME Minister Narendra Modi returned to power on Sunday with almost all his topranked 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 72member 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 blue-colured jacket, Modi took the oath in Hindi as the head of NDA-III government. After Modi, Rajnath Singh, who was the defence minister in the previous government, was administered the oath of office. Amit Shah, home minister in the previous government, was the next to be sworn in. Nitin Gadkari and J P Nadda fol- Stalin seeks support to end NEET EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai Amid nationwide opposition to NEET due to allegations of irregularities, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday reached out to other states for support to end NEET by sharing the translated copies of the report of the Justice AK Rajan committee in nine languages in a post on his ‘X’ handle. The DMK outreach comes just hours after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed PM Narendra Modi over the alleged irregularities in the test and promised to be the voice of students in Parliament. The DMK government had appointed the Rajan committee to study whether NEETbased admission to medical courses has adversely affected the social, economic and federal polity and poor , students. The CM shared the copies of the report in English, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Bengali, and said the ill-effects of NEET could be understood better through the report. P5 lowed next. 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. Describing the mandate as historic and alliance as organic at the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, Notably Modi dropped three , senior leaders -- Anurag Thakur (elected but not inducted), Smriti Irani (lost the elect i o n ) , a n d R a j e ev C h a n drasekhar (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. Among the new faces are Suresh Gopi and George Kurien from Karala; Ajay Tamta (Uttarakhand); Shantanu Thakur and Sukanta Majumder (West Bengal); C R Paatil (Gujarat); Raj Bhushan Chaudhary and Ramnath Thakur (Bihar), among others. 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 Caste, and 5 from ST communities. Among the most notable 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 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. NCP rejects MoS rank, insists on cabinet berth S u d h i r S ur ya w a n sh i @ Mumbai Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) turned down the BJP’s offer to make its leader Praful Patel a minister of state with independent charge. Patel said since he h a d a l r e a dy served as a cabinet minister in the UPA gover nment, accepting the office of the minister of state with independent charge would be a demotion for him. Ajit Pawar said the NCP has told the BJP it is ready to wait, but wants a cabinet berth. 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 Ministers of State with independent charge 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
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