Seven women, including two in Cabinet roles, have been inducted into the new council of ministers as Prime Minister Narendra Modi commenced his third consecutive term.
View More Nari Shakti 3.0: Seven female ministers join Modi’s third term cabinet
BJP’s first-ever MP from Kerala, Suresh Gopi, denied reports of quitting the Union ministry hours after taking the oath as Minister of State in the Modi 3.0 government.
View More Suresh Gopi denied reports of quitting Modi 3.0 cabinet
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to PM Modi, followed by senior leaders Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, and Nitin Gadkari. Notable ministers who retained their positions from the previous Cabinet include JP Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, S. Jaishankar, and Manohar Lal Khattar.
View More Modi takes oath for historic third term, inducts 72 ministers into new cabinet
Attendees included prominent BJP figures like Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dr. S. Jaishankar, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Piyush Goyal, who were all part of the previous cabinet. Other notable attendees were Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, JDU leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh, HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi, RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary, JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy, LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, and Jitin Prasada.
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NEW DELHI: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has ended speculation by officially announcing Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister for a third term. The decision…
View More NDA leaders formally announce PM Modi as leader for third term
Key figures present included BJP president JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and leaders from allied parties such as Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde, Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy, Janasena Party chief Pawan Kalyan, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, and Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Praful Patel.
View More NDA leaders unite with Modi in crucial meeting following Lok Sabha dissolution
‘Jo Ram ko laye hain, hum unko layenge’ slogan back fired on the saffron nationalists in Ayodhya. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Awadhesh Prasad of Samajwadi Party emerged victorious by 54,500 votes over sitting Bhartiya Janta Party’s MP Lallu Singh.
View More The fall of saffron: Ayodhya’s political upset
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) achieved a majority, with the BJP itself winning 240 seats. Although short of the 272-seat threshold needed for an outright majority, BJP’s allies have ensured the coalition surpasses this mark.
View More Global leaders pour in greetings as PM Modi secures third term victory
Former Punjab CM and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi, who lost both the seats he contested in the February 2022 Assembly elections, won the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat. He defeated BJP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku by a margin of 1,75,993 votes, AAP’s Pawan Kumar Tinu by a margin of 1,81,164, and Shiromani Akali Dal’s Mohinder Singh Kaypee by a margin of 3,22,142.
View More Charanjit Singh Channi wins Jalandhar, Punjab
Aam Aadmi Party which came to power in Delhi in 2013 faced a major blow weeks before Lok Sabha Elections 2024 when Enforcement Directorate(ED) arrested Kejriwal on March 21 on corruption charges. Looking at the political scenario Delhi voters spoke their opinion about who they think can come to the power.
View More Will AAP maintain control, or will BJP wave sweep Delhi? Lok Sabha Elections 2024
We laid the foundation of Collector’s office, we made the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) office — all of which was missing before 2019 when Gandhi family ruled.
View More INTERVIEW| Amethi doesn’t have laapta sansad anymore, it has an address in Gauriganj: Smriti Irani
The Election Commission of India has rejected the nominations of 33 candidates, including comedian Shyam Rangeela, for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency where PM Narendra Modi is contesting for this term after completing two terms from the same constituency.
View More Shyam Rangeela’s nomination among 33 rejected in Varanasi
