Narendra Modi Cabinet : First meeting at PM’s residence underway
The first Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of the newly-formed NDA government is underway at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi. A total of 30 MPs took oath as Cabinet ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday evening. The portfolio allocation has yet to be announced.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the first file of his third tenure on Monday which pertains to releasing the 17th instalment of the PM Kisan Nidhi.
Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive time along with his new Cabinet and council of ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday evening. The oath was administered by President Droupadi Murmu in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan during the ceremony that began at 7.15 pm. Modi’s oath-taking was followed immediately by top BJP aides Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari – the defence, home and transport ministers in his last government, respectively.
The new government team includes 30 Cabinet ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge and 36 Ministers of State.
Members of Parliament (MPs) who took oath as members of the Council of Ministers include Narendra Modi, JP Nadda, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Piyush Goyal, and Jyotiraditya Scindia. Other appointees include HD Kumaraswamy of (JDS), Chirag Paswan (LJP), Ram Nath Thakur JD(U), Jitan Ram Manji (HAM-S), Jayant Chaudhary (RLD), Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal (Soneylal)), Rammohan Naidu (TDP), and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani (TDP). Pratap Rao Jadhav of the Shiv Sena was also inducted into the new government as Union Minister of State.
Who was in attendance at the swearing-in ceremony?
– Industrialists like Mukesh Ambani attended with his sons Anant and Akash and son-in-law Anand Piramal, while Gautam Adani was there with his wife Priti and brother Rajesh Adani.
– Actors Shah Rukh Khan, Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, Anupam Kher, Vikrant Massey, and singer Kailash Kher were present.
– Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud attended the event with his wife, and former President Ram Nath Kovind also attended.
– Seven heads of state attended the event as part of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy – Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Maldives Mohamed Muizzu, Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay.
Lok Sabha election result numbers
The BJP bagged 240 seats in the recently held Lok Sabha election, and the National Democratic Alliance secured a majority of 293 seats out of 543 Lok Sabha seats. On the other hand, the Congress won 99 seats in the general election, while the INDIA bloc bagged 234 seats.