UP has most ministers, Andhra gets none in Modi 2.0
Among bigger states, Andhra Pradesh is the only one which could not get any ministerial berth.
Twenty-two of the total 29 states have got one or more ministerial berths. Besides Andhra Pradesh, the other six states which could not get ministerial representation are smaller states from the north-east - Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya.
BJP, in fact, could not open its account in Andhra Pradesh this year where 22 of the total 25 parliamentary seats went in favour of the YSR Congress while the remaining three went to TDP.
Though the ruling party could not win a single seat even in Kerala, the state has got one minister. BJP leader V Muraleedharan state was inducted as a minister of state.
Karnataka, Rajasthan and Haryana have four ministers each, Gujarat has three and Punjab 2.
Among the states which will go to the assembly polls this year, Maharashtra got maximum of seven ministers, Haryana got three and Jharkhand one. Former chief minister of Jharkhand Arjun Munda got a Cabinet berth. Bengal, where BJP did remarkably well picking up 18 seats and is eyeing the 2021 assembly polls, got two ministerial berths.
Four out of nine ministers from UP are of cabinet rank- Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Mahendra Nath Pandey.
Maharashtra too got four ministers of cabinet rank - Nitin Gadkari, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goyal and Arvind Ganpat Sawant (MP from south Mumbai). Javadekar and Goyal are Rajya Sabha MPs. Other than Sawant, three of the four were cabinet ministers during Modi’s first term.
Bihar has three cabinet ministers - Ravi Shankar Prasad, Giriraj Singh and Ramvilas Paswan (LJP). NDA won 39 of 40 parliamentary seats from the state. While BJP won the highest number of seats (17) in the state, ally JD(U) won 16 and LJP won 6. JD(U), however, on Thursday decided not to join the Modi Cabinet due to differences over number of ministerial berths.
Harsh Vardhan, MP from Chandni Chowk in Delhi, is the lone minister from the capital. Vardhan was the minister of environment and science & technology in the outgoing ministry.
Though he was initially made the health minister during the first term, his portfolio was later changed to accommodate J P Nadda. Nadda, however, is not in the ministry this time amid buzz that he may be given the responsibility of the party after induction of present party chief Amit Shah into the cabinet.
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References
- ^ Rajasthan (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ Smriti Irani (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ Nitin Gadkari (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ Piyush Goyal (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ Amit Shah (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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