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Narendra Modi takes oath as PM for third time
71 NDA leaders took oath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of his Council of Ministers on Sunday (9 June). 30 of them have been appointed as Cabinet Ministers. Here's a state-wise break-up of them:
Andhra Pradesh: Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu (TDP) as Cabinet Minister. Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani (TDP) and Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma (BJP) as Minister of State (MoS).
Assam: Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP) as Cabinet Minister and Pabitra Margherita (BJP) as MoS.
Arunachal Pradesh: Kiren Rijiju (BJP) as Cabinet Minister.
Bihar: Jitan Ram Manjhi (Hindustani Awam Morcha), Rajeev Ranjan Singh aka Lalan Singh (JDU), Giriraj Singh (BJP) and Chirag Paswan (Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas) as Cabinet Ministers.
Ram Nath Thakur (JDU), Nityanand Rai (BJP), Raj Bhushan Choudhary (Vikassheel Insaan Party) and Satish Dubey (BJP) as MoS.
Chhattisgarh: Tokhan Sahu (BJP) as MoS.
Delhi: East Delhi MP Harsh Malhotra (BJP) as MoS.
Goa: Shripad Naik (BJP) as MoS.
Gujarat: Amit Shah (BJP), S Jaishankar (BJP), Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (BJP) and CR Patil (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers. Nimuben Bambhania (BJP) as MoS.
Haryana: ML Khattar (BJP) as Cabinet Minister and Rao Inderjit Singh (BJP) Krishan Pal (BJP) as MoS.
Himachal: J P Nadda (BJP) as Cabinet Minister.
Jammu and Kashmir: Jitendra Singh as MoS Independent Charge.
Karnataka: Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP), HD Kumaraswamy (JDS) and Pralhad Joshi (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers. V Somanna (BJP) and Shobha Karandlaje (BJP) as MoS.
Kerala: Suresh Gopi (BJP) and George Kurian (BJP) as MoS.
Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP), Dr Virendra Kumar (BJP) and Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers. Durga Das Uikey (BJP) and Savitri Thakur (BJP) as MoS.
Maharashtra: Piyush Goyal (BJP) and Nitin Gadkari (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers. Pratap Rao Jadhav (Shiv Sena), Ram Das Athawale (Republican Party of India), Raksha Khadse (BJP) and Murlidhar Mohol (BJP) as MoS.
Odisha: Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP), Jual Oram (BJP) and Ashwini Vaishnaw (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers.
Rajasthan: Bhupender Yadav (BJP) and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers, Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP) as MoS Independent Charge and Bhagirath Chaudhary (BJP) as MoS.
Punjab: Ravneet Singh Bittu (BJP) as MoS.
Tamil Nadu: Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh L Murugan (BJP) as MoS.
Telangana: G Kishan Reddy (BJP) as Cabinet Minister and Bandi Sanjay (BJP) as MoS.
Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh (BJP) and Rajya Sabha MP Hardeep Singh Puri (BJP) as Cabinet Ministers.
Jayant Choudhary (RLD), Jitin Prasada (BJP), Pankaj Chaudhary (BJP), Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal-Soneylal), Prof SP Singh Baghel (BJP), Kirtivardhan Singh, BL Verma (BJP) and Kamlesh Paswan (BJP) as MoS.
Uttarakhand: Ajay Tamta (BJP) as MoS.
West Bengal: Shantanu Thakur (BJP) and Sukanta Majumdar (BJP) as MoS.