New Delhi, May 30
Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman and Prakash Javadekar were among the 36 ministers who were sworn in for a second term, besides 20 MPs who took oath of office as cabinet ministers for the first time.
While 24 cabinet ministers were sworn in, nine took oath as ministers of state (Independent charge) and 24 others as ministers of state.
Home Minister in the previous Modi government, Rajnath was the first to take oath after the PM. Ram Vilas Paswan, DV Sadananda Gowda, Narendra Singh Tomar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Harsimrat Badal, Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Harsh Vardhan, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan and Muqtar Abbas Naqvi were among those who got a second chance.
Giriraj Singh, Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Sripad Yaso Naik, Jitender Singh, Kiren Rijiju, Mansukh Mandavia, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Krishan Pal Gurjar, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Purshottam Rupala, Ramdas Athavale and Babul Supriyo, were among the ministers of state in the previous government who were retained in the new council.
Hardeep Puri was reinducted into the council despite losing LS polls. Javadekar, who handled four portfolios in the previous regime, was sworn in for a second term. Mahendra Nath Pandey also took oath as a cabinet minister. Faggan Singh Kulaste, a six-time MP from Mandla in MP, was inducted in the new council.
Ex-Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda, ex-Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal, four-time MP from Karnataka's Dharwad Prahlad Joshi, Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant, five-time MP from Maharashtra's Jalna Raosaheb Danve, Gangapuram Kishan Reddy from Telangana, three-time Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur, were among those who took oath as Union ministers for the first time. Other first-timers were Debasree Chaudhuri, Kailash Choudhary, Pratap Sarangi, Rameshwar Teli, Renuka Saruta, V Muraleedharan, Ratan Lal Kataria, Nityanand Rai, Angadi Syresh Channabasappa and Dhotre Sanhay Shamrao. — PTI
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