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.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
