24 Ministers sworn in as Union Cabinet Ministers; 34 as Ministers of State
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Thursday evening administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ramnath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in a glittering ceremony attended by world leaders, leaders from opposition parties and Bollywood stars.
Along with Modi 24 leaders were sworn in as the Union Cabinet Ministers while 34 others were sworn in as the Ministers of State.
24 member cabinet included BJP National President Amit Shah, while names like Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Suresh Prabhu were missing from the list.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadanand Gowda, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan, Narendra Singh Tomar, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsimrat Kaur Badal were among the first few to take oath after PM Modi, Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh.
Others in the 24 member Cabinet of PM Modi includes, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Smriti Irani, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Prahdhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Mahendranath Pandey, Giriraj Singh, Ganjendra Singh Shikhwat.
Six new faces were introduced in the cabinet including Party President Amit Shah who was not a part of the previous cabinet. The others being Dr. S Jaishankar, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Arjun Munda, Prahlad Joshi and Arvind Ganpat Sawant.
Apart from the cabinet 34 members of parliament were also administered the oath of office and secrecy which included names like Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Inderjit Singh, Shripad naik, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Kiran Rejiju, Prahlad Singh Patel, Rajkumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Poori, Mansukh Mandaviya, Ashwini Kumar Chaubey, Arjun Ram Meghwal, V K Singh.
The others in the list includes Krishan Pal Gurjar, Danve Rao Saheb, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Gangapuram Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala, Ramdas Athawale, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, babul Supriyo, Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan, Anurag Singh Thakur, V. Muralidharan.
The new faces in the list of Minister of States include Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao, Suresh Angadi, Nityanand Rai, Ratan Lal Kataria, V Muralidharan, Rameshwar Teli, Somprakash, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, kailash Choudhry and Deboshree Chowdhry.
Notable exclusions from the Ministers of the State included Rajyavardhan Rathore and Anant Kumar Hegde.
The event was attended by Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Hema Malini, Yogi Adityanath, Kangana Ranaut, Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Shashi Tharoor and others.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
MP: 17-year-old boy tied to tree, beaten to death over alleged relationship with minor girl
Ratlam: In a horrific incident, the family members of a girl allegedly tied a 17-year-old boy to a tree, shaved his head, and then beat him to death after catching him meeting the girl at a temple premises near her house in the Namli area of Ratlam district of western Madhya Pradesh.
The incident occurred in Mesava village, where a boy from a different caste, in a relationship with a minor girl, was called to meet her and was caught by her parents around 11 p.m. on Friday, as reported by The New Indian Express.
The victim's brother stated that he came to know about the incident on Saturday morning. “We are from the neighbouring village. When I arrived, I found my brother lying dead near a house close to the temple. Locals told me he was first tied to a tree, his head was forcibly tonsured, and then he was beaten to death. His head bore deep wounds.” TNIE quoted him as saying.
The boy and girl were former classmates, and their close friendship had allegedly developed into a romantic relationship.
Four individuals have been taken into custody, and further investigation is currently underway.
