New Delhi:
Telugu Desam Occasion MP Ram Mohan Naidu is the brand new Civil Aviation Minister, changing the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s Jyotiraditya Scindia, who has been given cost of the Telecom Ministry.
Mr Naidu is from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-designate N Chandrababu Naidu’s celebration, which performed a key function in making certain the BJP returns to energy after the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Mr Naidu, who can also be his celebration’s Nationwide Common Secretary, contested the 2024 Lok Sabha election from the Srikakulam constituency, a seat he has now gained thrice in a row.
He beat the YSR Congress Occasion’s Perada Tilak by almost three lakh votes.
Mr Naidu’s father, Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, was the MLA from Andhra Pradesh’s Tekkali and later the MP from Srikakulam; he gained the seat 4 occasions between 1996 and 2004.
Mr Yerran Naidu was Rural Improvement Minister within the United Entrance authorities.
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The TDP had reportedly demanded 4 ministerial posts and the high-profile Lok Sabha Speaker’s Chair, provided that it’s, inside the NDA, the second-largest celebration. Earlier sources mentioned the TDP would get 4.
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The raft of cupboard bulletins made Monday included some surprises and a few large names retaining their posts. Chief among the many latter have been the Massive 4 – the Residence, Defence, Finance, and Exterior Affair. Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S Jaishankar have retained these positions.
Senior BJP chief Nitin Gadkari retains his Street Transport and Highways submit, and Ashwini Vaishnaw has retained his Railways portfolio with Info and Broadcasting added.
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New faces embody ex-Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been rewarded for orchestrating his celebration’s thumping Meeting win final 12 months by being made Agriculture Minister.
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One other ex-Chief Minister – Haryana’s ML Khattar – is Energy and Housing and City Affairs Minister.
Within the 2024 Lok Sabha election the BJP gained 240 seats by itself – 32 beneath the bulk mark – however managed to type the federal government for a 3rd consecutive time due to 53 seats from Nationwide Democratic Allies, significantly the TDP and Nitish Kumar’s JDU. These two contributed 16 and 12 MPs.
The JDU has bought two berths, of which one – Panchayati Raj – has gone to senior chief Lalan Singh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi – who will take the Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Power, and Area ministries – was sworn in on Sunday night for a report third time with a cupboard of 71 ministers, together with 30 of cupboard rank.
The opposition INDIA bloc – led by the Congress – gained 293 seats to place up an unexpectedly shut struggle. There was hypothesis the Congress would attain out to Chandrababu Naidu, who was as soon as a UPA member. and Nitish Kumar, who helped discovered the INDIA bloc, to persuade them to dump the BJP and are available onboard, however that has not materialised, for now.
From the southern states – areas by which the BJP often struggled, and did so once more, with zero seats in Tamil Nadu and a drop of 11 in Karnataka. From the latter state, although, Janata Dal (Secular) boss HD Kumaraswamay has been given Heavy Industries and Metal.
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