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Updated May 30th, 2019 at 22:35 IST

Which NDA ally got what? Here's all you need to know

After weaving history by winning a massive mandate of 353 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath along with 58 Council of Ministers from BJP and their NDA allies at Rashtrapati Bhavan. 

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After weaving history by winning a massive mandate of 353 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath along with 58 Council of Ministers from BJP and their NDA allies at Rashtrapati Bhavan. 

Out of the total 58 Ministers, 25 took oath as Cabinet Ministers, 9 for Independent Charge and 24 for Ministers of State. 

Prime Minister Modi and now Union Minister Amit Shah called leaders informing them about their spot in the Council of Ministers on Thursday, out of which 4 leaders of 4 parties were chosen.

Here is the party-wise allotment in the Council of Ministers among the 18 NDA members: 

  • BJP – 54
  • SAD- 1 (Harsimrat Kaur Badal)
  • LJP-1 (Ram Vilas Paswan)
  • Sena-1 (Arvind Sawant)
  • RPI (A)- 1 (Ramdas Athawale)

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BJP was in a pre-poll alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab. As per the seat-sharing formula, SAD fielded 10 candidates and BJP contested 3 seats out of which the alliance only won 4 seats. 

BJP in alliance with JD(U) and LJP won 39 out of 40 seats, out of which Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP won all six seats it contested. 

In Maharashtra, the saffron BJP-Shiv Sena alliance won 42 out of the 48 seats, wherein BJP won 23 and Shiv Sena 18 seats.

On May 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a landslide victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, by winning a total of 353 seats, with BJP winning 303 seats on its own out of the 542 Parliamentary seats that went to polls in the seven-phase elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led by PM Modi and Amit Shah won the highest ever seats in the Lok Sabha in this election, by sweeping states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Delhi.

Here is the full list of Ministers who took oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday:

Cabinet Ministers:

  • Shri Narendra Modi
  • Shri Raj Nath Singh
  • Shri Amit Shah
  • Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
  • Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda
  • Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
  • Shri Ramvilas Paswan
  • Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
  • Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
  • Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
  • Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot
  • Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
  • Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
  • Shri Arjun Munda
  • Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani
  • Dr. Harsh Vardhan
  • Shri Prakash Javadekar
  • Shri Piyush Goyal
  • Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
  • Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
  • Shri Pralhad Joshi
  • Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
  • Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant
  • Shri Giriraj Singh
  • Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Here is the list for Ministers of State (Independent Charge):

  • Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar
  • Rao Inderjit Singh
  • Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
  • Dr. Jitendra Singh
  • Shri Kiren Rijiju
  • Shri Prahalad Singh Patel
  • Shri Raj Kumar Singh
  • Shri Hardeep Singh Puri
  • Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

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Ministers of State:

  • Shri Faggansingh Kulaste
  • Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey
  • Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal
  • General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
  • Shri Krishan Pal
  • Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
  • Shri G. Kishan Reddy
  • Shri Parshottam Rupala
  • Shri Ramdas Athawale
  • Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
  • Shri Babul Supriyo
  • Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
  • Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
  • Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
  • Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
  • Shri Nityanand Rai
  • Shri. Rattan Lal Kataria
  • Shri V. Muraleedharan
  • Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta
  • Shri Som Parkash
  • Shri Rameswar Teli
  • Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi
  • Shri Kailash Choudhary
  • Smt. Debasree Chaudhuri
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Published May 30th, 2019 at 22:14 IST

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