New Delhi:

BJP chief JP Nadda has returned as a minister within the cupboard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s taking oath this night for a historic third time period. Seventy-one ministers are taking oath at present together with PM Modi.

Mr Nadda was answerable for the well being ministry within the first cupboard of PM Modi from 2014 to 2019. In 2020, he took cost because the BJP chief, changing Amit Shah, Union Residence Minister and the occasion’s chief strategist.

In September 2022, 4 months earlier than Mr Nadda’s tenure within the prime occasion submit was anticipated to finish, he was given an extension that lasted until the tip of this yr’s normal election.  

The Council of ministers taking oath this night on the Rashtrapati Bhavan, consists of quite a few NDA allies, with the BJP falling in need of majority for the primary time in a decade.

The highlight can be on Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Celebration, which received 16 seats, and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United, which added 12 seats to the NDA tally. The BJP has received 240 seats — 32 seats in need of majority.

The TDP is predicted to get 4 cupboard berths and the JD(U) two. TDP’s Okay Rammohan Naidu and Chandrasekhar Pemmasani and JD(U)’s Lallan Singh and Ramnath Thakur are anticipated to take oath at present, sources have mentioned.

Among the many different leaders anticipated to be included are Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Jayant Chaudhary, Lok Janashakti Celebration RV’s Chirag Paswan, Shiv Sena’s Pratap Rao Jadhav, HAM’s Jitan Ram Manjhi, AJSU’s Chandra Prakash Chaudhary, RPI’s Ramdas Athawale, Apna Dal’s Anupriya Patel and Janata Dal Secular’s HD Kumaraswamy.