With 72 members, Modi 3.0 council of ministers is 9 short of maximum limit; here’s the entire list

With 72 members, Modi 3.0 council of ministers is 9 short of maximum limit; here’s the entire list

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New Delhi: With a 72-member Council of Ministers taking oath Sunday in the third term of the Modi government, it is only nine short of the maximum permissible strength of 81 and six less than the maximum of 78 ministers the Modi government had between 2019 and 2024.

Prime Minister: Narendra Modi

Cabinet Ministers

  1. Rajnath Singh
  2. Amit Shah
  3. Nitin Gadkari
  4. J P Nadda
  5. Shivraj Singh Chouhan
  6. Nirmala Sitharaman
  7. S Jaishankar
  8. ML Khattar
  9. HD Kumaraswamy
  10. Piyush Goyal
  11. Dharmendra Pradhan
  12. Jitan Ram Manjhi
  13. Rajiv Ranjan Singh
  14. Sarbananda Sonowal
  15. Virendra Kumar
  16. K Ram Mohan Naidu
  17. Pralhad Joshi
  18. Jual Oram
  19. Giriraj Singh
  20. Ashwini Vaishnaw
  21. Jyotiraditya Scindia
  22. Bhupender Yadav
  23. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
  24. Annapurna Devi
  25. Kiren Rijiju
  26. Hardeep Singh Puri
  27. Mansukh Mandaviya
  28. G Kishan Reddy
  29. Chirag Paswan
  30. CR Paatil

 

Ministers of State (Independent charge)

  1. Rao Inderjit Singh
  2. Jitendra Singh
  3. Arjun Ram Meghwal
  4. Prataprao Jadhav
  5. Jayant Chaudhary

 

Ministers of State

  1. Jitin Prasada
  2. Shripad Naik
  3. Pankaj Chaudhary
  4. Krishan Pal Gurjar
  5. Ramdas Athawale
  6. Ram Nath Thakur
  7. Nityanand Rai
  8. Anupriya Parel
  9. V Sommana
  10. Pemmasani Chandrasekhar
  11. SP Singh Baghel
  12. Shobha Karandlaje
  13. Kirthi Vardhan Singh
  14. B L Varma
  15. Shantanu Thakur
  16. Suresh Gopi
  17. L Murugan
  18. Ajay Tamta
  19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar
  20. Kamlesh Paswan
  21. Bhagirath Choudhary
  22. Satish Dubey
  23. Sanjay Seth
  24. Ravneet Singh Bittu
  25. Durga Das Uikey
  26. Raksha Khadse
  27. Sukanta Majumdar
  28. Savitri Thakur
  29. Tokhan Sahu
  30. Rajbhushan Chaudhary
  31. Bupathi Raju Srinivas Varma
  32. Harsh Malhotra
  33. Nimuben Bhamaria
  34. Murlidhar Mohol
  35. George Kurian

The Modi government had touched the maximum strength of 78 in 2021 after expansion, but the outgoing council of ministers had 72 members, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The third term of the BJP-led NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a maximum of 31 cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Modi, besides five Ministers of State (with Independent Charge) and 36 ministers of state.

In the outgoing Modi government 2.0, there were 71 ministers, including 26 Cabinet ministers, three Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 42 Ministers of State.

In July 2021, when the cabinet was expanded, there were a maximum of 78 ministers with 30 cabinet ministers, 2 Ministers of State (Independent charge) and 45 Ministers of State.

The maximum strength of the Council of Ministers is 81, including the prime ministers, which is 15 per cent of the total strength of 543 in the Lok Sabha.

In May 2019, 57 ministers were sworn in, including 24 as cabinet ministers, nine Ministers of State (Independent charge) and 24 Ministers of State.

During the first term when he wrested power from the Congress in May 2014, Prime Minister Modi had 46 ministers, including 24 cabinet ministers, 10 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 12 Ministers of State. This included the prime minister himself.

In May 2009, the Manmohan Singh government had the maximum strength of 79 ministers, including the prime minister. During UPA-1 too, the Manmohan Singh-led government touched the maximum strength of 79 ministers.

The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1999 had a total of 74 ministers.

PTI

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