Modi 3.0 Cabinet Decoded: No Muslim face, 11 NDA ministers — Who made it, who didn't?
as per the government.The Council of Ministers in Modi 3.0 has 13 members from the Rajya Sabha, while 57 are newly-elected MPs from the Lok Sabha. Two of the new ministers of state – Ravneet Singh Bittu and George Kurian – are not members of either Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha and are required to become a member of Parliament within six months of their oath-taking.Of the total 31 cabinet ministers, including PM Modi, as many as eight are Rajya Sabha members.
Among the Cabinet ministers who are Rajya Sabha members are Jagat Prakash Nadda, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Hardeep Singh Puri.Sarbananda Sonowal and Jyotiraditya Scindia are members of the Rajya Sabha but have been elected to Lok Sabha this time.The Rajya Sabha members who were inducted as Ministers of State are Ramdas Athawale, Ramnath Thakur, BL Verma, L Murugan, Satish Chandra Dubey, Sanjay Seth and Pabitra Margherita.The new faces include BJP national chief Jagat Prakash Nadda, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal, JD(S) leader and former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy, HAM leader and former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, JDU leader Lalan Singh, BJP MP Suresh Gopi, Shiv Sena's Prataprao Jadhav and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan, BJP leader Raksha Khadse were among the first-time ministers.Who's out? As many as 38 ministers of the outgoing Lok Sabha were replaced in Modi 3.0 cabinet. Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur, Ajay Bhatt, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Ashwini Choubey, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Meenakshi Lekhi, Arjun Munda and V Muraleedharan were among those who were ministers in Modi 2.0 cabinet, but were cut off in the Modi 3.0 list.
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