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 ■ ■ BHUBANESWAR l monday l june 10, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late CITY EDITION Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his ministers after the swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar are also seen | Shekhar Yadav Coalition and continuity in Modi Rajnath, Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Jaishankar in top team RAJ E SH K U M AR T HA K UR @ 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 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 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- 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. After taking oath, PM Modi said his government will continue working for 140 crore Indians and fulfil their dreams. 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 Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hardeep Puri, Giriraj Singh, Dr Jitendra Singh, Ram Das Athawale, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Meghawal, Bhupendra Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya, Sarbananda Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju, G Kishan Reddy, Nityanand Rai, Dharamendra Pradhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pralhad Joshi, Virendra Kumar, S P Singh Baghel, L Murugan, and Anupriya Patel. Among the new faces are Suresh Gopi and George Kurian from Kerala; Ajay Tamta (Uttarakhand); Shantanu Thakur and Sukanta Majumdar (West Bengal); C R Patil (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 Gujarat have 6 ministers each, while Karnataka has 5 and Odisha got 3 in Dharmendra Pradhan, Jual Oram and Ashwini Vaishnaw. 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. Out of the 72 ministers inducted in the cabinet, 43 ministers have more than 3 terms in the ministry while 39 are with past ministerial experi- BJP govt’s oath-taking in Odisha shifts to June 12 Bhubaneswar: The swearing-in ceremony of the first BJP government in Odisha has been deferred from June 10 to June 12. State BJP spokesperson Sajjan Sharma said the oath-taking ceremony had to be rescheduled in view of the pressing commitments of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the next two days. The prime minister has to attend several important meetings on June 10 and 11 | P3 ences. 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 Scheduled Castes, and five from Scheduled Tribes. Among the most notable inductions are Suresh Gopi and George Kurian from Leftruled Kerala, where the BJP managed to open its account this time. 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 from Madhya Pradesh, Manohar Lal Khattar from Haryana, and Sarbananda Sonowal from Assam. The Modi 3.0 cabinet will have seven women ministers, including two in the Cabinet role. The new ministers inducted into the council of ministers are former Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman; BJP MPs Annpurna Devi, Shobha Karandlaje, Raksha Khadse, Savitri Thakur, and Nimuben Bambhaniya; and Apna Dal MP Anupriya Patel. There were 10 women ministers in the previous council of ministers, which was dissolved on June 5. Low representation in Modi 3.0 dampens mood B i j o y P r a d h a n @ Bhubaneswar Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday retained two union ministers from the state - Dharmendra Pradhan and Ashwini Vaishnaw - in the council of ministers in his third term and reposed confidence in Jual Oram who was part of the cabinet in his first tenure. The three Bharatiya Janata party MPs from the state are expected to get plum portfolios given their stature and weighty ministries they were handling in the previous governments. However, after a stellar performance of the BJP in the just concluded general election to Lok Sabha and Assembly induc, tion of only three ministers from the state in the Modi gov- Dharmendra Pradhan Ashwini Vaishnaw Jual Oram er nment 3.0 has come as a dampener. Expectations ran high after the election results as the BJP swept the Lok Sabha election by winning 20 out of 21 Parliamentary constituencies and contribu t i n g s i g n i f i c a n t ly t o t h e number required for Modi returning to power for third time. “We were expecting five or six The Prime Minister had to make a great balancing act and satisfy all coalition partners. We are still hopeful that justice will be done to the state at the right time Senior BJP leader MPs from the state will get representation in the union cabinet as the Prime Minister had inducted three ministers from the state in his second term when only eight BJP MPs were elected. It has come as a big let down,” said a party leader on conditions of anonymity . With BJP winning 240 seats, the Modi 3.0 government fell short of 32 seats for getting absolute majority Had Odisha not . contributed significantly like few other states like Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhatisgarh, it could have spelt trouble for the saffron party If Haryana . with ten seats could get three ministers and BJP winning 14 out of 25 seats in Rajasthan can have four, Odisha deserves better, rued a supporter of the BJP. Reasoning out the coalition compulsion, a senior leader of the party said, “The Prime Minister had to make a great balancing act and satisfy all coalition partners. We are still hopeful that justice will be done to the state at the right time.” Five days after BJD poll debacle, Pandian retires from active politics, says he’s sorry E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Bhubaneswar Jasprit Bumrah claimed three wickets while Hardik Pandya chipped in with two scalps as India defended a modest total (119) to beat Pakistan | afp Five days after the BJD was dealt a shocking defeat in the Assembly polls and faced a complete rout in the Lok Sabha failing to win even a single seat, the party’s star campaigner touted to be Naveen’s political successor, VK Pandian on Sunday announced to quit active politics. The bureaucratturned-politician’s career in politics lasted just seven months. Taking to Instagram to announce his retirement, Pandian said, he came to poli- tics only to assist his guru and mentor Naveen Patnaik ahead of the gruelling elections.”My aim to join politics was to assist Naveen babu and now consciously I decide to withdraw from active politics. I am sorry if I have hurt anyone in this journey I am sorry if this cam. paign narrative against me has had a part to play with BJD’s loss. I apologise to the entire Biju Parivar,” he said. I am sorry if I have hurt anyone in this journey. I am sorry if this campaign narrative against me has had a part to play with BJD’s loss. I apologise to the entire Biju Parivar VK Pandian Pandian heaped praise on Naveen for his grace, ethics and vision as well as commitment to the people of Odisha which he said inspired him to join politics. Stating that he had no desire whatsoever for a specific political post or power, he said, “For the last 12 years I had tried to work from early in the morning till midnight keeping Odisha and Naveen Babu my focus. I was neither a candidate nor holding any post in the party. It has been my shortcoming that I could not effectively counter the political narratives,” he said. Pandian was under fire for the spectacular slump of the BJD in the elections which ended Naveen’s five terms as chief minister of the Continued on P5 state. NCP rejects MoS rank, insists on cabinet berth S u d h i r S u r ya w a n s h i @ Mumbai Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday turned down the BJP’s offer to make its leader Praful Patel a minister of state with independent charg e in the new NDA government. Patel said since he had already served as a cabinet minister in the UPA government, accepting the office of the minister of state with independent charge would be a demotion for him. Party leader Ajit Pawar concurred and said the NCP has told the BJP it is ready to wait for a few more days, but it wants a cabinet berth. BJP leader and Maharashtra deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said the BJP had decided on a criteria for handing out ministerial berths to coalition partners on the basis of their nunbers. “But because of one party, the criteria cannot be twisted,” he said. “The NCP will be accommodated in future whenever their will be an expansion of the Cabinet,” he added. 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 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
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