On Sunday, Prime Minister of India and BJP leader Narendra Modi took the oath of office for a record third term. This is significant since no prime minister has served a third term in office since Jawaharlal Nehru, the first PM of independent India. Seventy-two leaders were declared into the Modi 3.0 government on this momentous day.
30 Cabinet ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 36 Ministers of State make up the new Cabinet.
Ministers Of State With Independent Charge
- Rao Inderjit Singh, a six-term member of parliament, was declared the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge).
- Jitendra Singh, Udhampur MP, was declared as MoS (independent charge).
- Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bikaner MP, took oath as the MoS (Independent Charge).
- Prataprao Jadhav, Shiv Sena leader of the Eknath Shinde faction, was featured in Modi 3.0
- Jayant Chaudhary was appointed MoS (Independent Charge), despite his party’s RLD’s pre-election alliance with the NDA.
Ministers of State
- Jitin Prasada, who joined BJP in 2021 before the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, was inducted as MoS.
- Shripad Naik, a six-time North Goa MP, is part of the third Narendra Modi cabinet as well.
- Pankaj Chaudhary, who served as MoS (Finance) in the second Modi cabinet, took oath today.
- Krishan Pal Gurjar, who won in Faridabad, is part of Modi 3.0.
- Ramdas Athawale, chairman of the Republican Party of India, was declared in as a Union minister.
- Nityanand Rai, who won from the Ujiyarpur Lok Sabha constituency, takes the oath as Union Minister.
- Anupriya Patel, whose party Apna Pal joined with the NDA, was declared as Union Minister.
- V. Somanna, who won the Tumkur seat, is part of Modi 3.0.
- Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, the head of Chandrababu Naidu’s party, took the oath as Union Minister.
- SP Singh Baghel, who won his sixth term as MP for Agra, is part of Modi 3.0.
- Shobha Karandlaje, the winner of the Bangalore North seat, was declared as Union Minister.
- Kirti Vardhan Singh, the three-time BJP MP, took oath as Union Minister.
- BL Verma, the Uttar Pradesh BJP’s vice president, is part of Modi 3.0.
- Shantanu Thakur, the BJP MP from Bangaon, was declared as Union Minister on Sunday.
- Kamlesh Paswan, a three-time MP from Bengal, was declared as Union Minister.
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar, who was elected from Karimnagar with a margin of 2.25 lakh votes, took oath today.
- Ajay Tamta, the BJP politician from Uttarakhand, was declared as a union minister.
- Dr. L. Murugan, who was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in April, was declared as Union Minister.
- Suresh Gopi, actor-turned-politician, is also a member of the PM Modi-led administration.
- Ravneet Singh Bittu, who moved from Congress to BJP in March, took the oath in Modi 3.0.
- Sanjay Seth, a BJP politician elected from Ranchi, was declared as Union Minister.
- Raksha Khadse, a three-time Lok Sabha MP, is part of the third Modi government.
- Bhagirath Choudhary, who won from the Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency, took oath as MoS.
- Satish Chandra Dubey, re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in July 2022, was declared in on Sunday.
- Durgadas Uikey, a BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh, is part of Modi 3.0.
- Sukanta Majumdar, the West Bengal BJP president, was declared in as a union minister.
- Savitri Thakur, BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh, was appointed as part of the third Modi government.
- Tokhan Sahu, who won from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur constituency, took oath as the MoS.
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary, who won the 2024 election from the Muzaffarpur seat, was declared in today.
- Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma, an Andhra Pradesh BJP politician, is part of Modi 3.0.
- Harsh Malhotra, former Mayor of East Delhi Municipal Corporation, took his oath as Union Minister.
- Nimuben Bambhaniam, who won from the Bhavnagar Lok Sabha constituency, was declared in today
- Murlidhar Mohol, former Pune Mayor, is also a member of Modi’s Cabinet.
- George Kurian, state general secretary of the BJP’s Kerala branch, took the oath as Union Minister.
- Pabitra Margherita, a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, was declared as Union Minister in PM Modi’s Cabinet.
Narendra Modi was re-elected as Prime Minister in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, with the NDA winning 293 of the 543 seats. Despite capturing 240 seats, the BJP fell short of achieving a majority in the Lok Sabha. The magic number of the Lok Sabha is 272.
