Union Cabinet/ Council of Ministers, India (2019-24)
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Ministers from Rajya, Lok Sabha, 2014/ 19
Ministers from Rajya, Lok Sabha,
First time MPs who became ministers
From: May 31, 2019: The Times of India
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2014, 2019
Ministers from Rajya, Lok Sabha,
First time MPs who became ministers
Those inducted, and those dropped
From: May 31, 2019: The Times of India
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2019: Those who were inducted into the Union Cabinet, and those who were dropped
States, assets and age of ministers
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The states that are represented in the cabinet
May 31, 2019: The Times of India
20 of 29 states find place in Team Modi, UP gets rewarded with nine berths
Uttar Pradesh, which sent the highest number of 64 MPs from the ruling alliance to the 17th Lok Sabha, on Thursday got the biggest representation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers. Nine of the 58 ministers are from the state, including the PM who represents Varanasi, followed by eight from Maharashtra and five from Bihar.
Among bigger states, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala could not get any ministerial berth though V Muraleedharan, who represents Maharashtra in Rajya Sabha is Kerala BJP chief.
Twenty of the total 29 states have got one or more ministerial berths. Besides Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the other states that could not get ministerial representation are from the north-east — Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya.
BJP, in fact, could not open its account in Andhra Pradesh this year where 22 of the total 25 parliamentary seats went in favour of YSR Congress while the remaining three went to TDP.
Karnataka has four ministers while Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat have three each. Punjab, Jharkhand and West Bengal get two each.
Among the states which will see assembly polls this year, Maharashtra got maximum of eight ministers, Haryana three and Jharkhand two. Former chief minister of Jharkhand Arjun Munda got a Cabinet berth. West Bengal, where BJP did remarkably well picking up 18 seats and is eyeing the 2021 assembly polls, got two ministerial berths.
Four out of nine ministers, including the PM, from Uttar Pradesh are of Cabinet rank — Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, and Mahendra Nath Pandey being the others.
Maharashtra too got four ministers of Cabinet rank — Nitin Gadkari, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goyal and Arvind Ganpat Sawant (MP from south Mumbai). Javadekar and Goyal are Rajya Sabha MPs. Other than Sawant, three of the four were Cabinet ministers during Modi’s first term. Bihar has two Cabinet ministers — Ravi Shankar Prasad and Giriraj Singh — besides Ramvilas Paswan (LJP), who is not an MP. NDA won 39 of the 40 parliamentary seats from the state. While BJP won the highest number of seats (17), its allies JD(U) won 16 and LJP bagged 6. JD(U), however, on Thursday decided not to join the Modi Cabinet due to differences over number of ministerial berths.
Harsh Vardhan, MP from Chandni Chowk in Delhi, is the lone minister from the Capital. Vardhan was the minister of environment and science & technology in the outgoing ministry.
Though he was initially made the health minister, his portfolio was later changed to accommodate J P Nadda. Nadda, however, is not in the ministry this time amid buzz that he might be given the responsibility of the party after induction of party chief Amit Shah in the Cabinet.
