New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, June 9 (UNI) Senior BJP leader Jual Oram, who represents the Sundargarh Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha, on Sunday made a comeback as cabinet minister in the Modi 3.0 government. Oram, 63, was appointed as India’s first Union Minister for Tribal Affairs in October 1999 by the Atal Behari Vajpayee government. He was…
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) BJP appointed Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Bhupender Yadav on Sunday as party observers for the election of the legislative party leader in Odisha. The oath-taking ceremony of the first BJP government in Odisha has been rescheduled to June 12 from June 10, party leaders informed on Sunday. Party leader…
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) Pralhad Joshi. a seasoned and skillful politician known for being articulate, served as Minister of Coal, Parliamentary Affairs, and Mines since May 2019. Representing the Dharwad constituency of Karnataka, Joshi has a long-standing association with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), where he previously served as the President of the Karnataka…
New Delhi, Jun 9 (UNI) Ramdas Bandu Athawale, who was the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, took oath in the Narendra Modi government on Sunday. Born on December 25, 1959 in Agalgaon village of Sangli district, he is a member of the Rajya Sabha and president of Republican Party of India (RPI-A)….
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) The new cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems fully power-packed as the new team comprises of six former chief ministers including H D Kumaraswamy from Karnataka and Jitan Ram Manjhi from Bihar other than several BJP heavyweights. Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and former Haryana…
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, June 9 (UNI) Senior BJP leader from Odisha Dharmendra Pradhan, who has held important portfolios in the previous two terms of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was on Sunday inducted as a Cabinet Minister in the Modi 3.0 government. Pradhan, who won from Sambhalpur in Odisha by defeating the Biju Janata Dal candidate by…
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) Nirmala Sitharaman is a trailblazer in Indian politics, having been the first woman to serve as full-time Union Minister of Finance since 2019 in the Modi 2.0 government. She has presented five full budgets since July 2019, and an interim budget on February 1, 2024. As Finance Minister, Sitharaman did…
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) Politically savvy and known as a tough and disciplined administrator during his term as India’s Home Minister, Amit Shah on Sunday returned to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet 3.0. Shah, who won from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar constituency with a staggering margin of 7,44,716 votes in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, has…
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) Rajya Sabha member and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary was on Sunday evening inducted into the Union Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A third generation politician, Jayant Chaudhary is the grandson of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh and son of Chaudhary Ajit Singh, who…
New Delhi, June 9 (UNI) Astute, learned and well-respected globally as India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar on Sunday returned to the Modi 3.0 cabinet. The diplomat-turned-politician served as Foreign Secretary in PM Modi’s first term and was appointed EAM in 2019 in Modi’s second term. Jaishankar’s role as EAM has seen a more assertive…
