As many as 37 Ministers have been dropped from the federal government in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third time period and these embody seven with Cupboard rank — distinguished amongst them being Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur and Narayan Rane.
Parshottam Rupala, Arjun Munda, R.Okay. Singh and Mahendra Natha Pandey, additionally held Cupboard positions within the second Modi authorities however weren’t retained within the Council of Ministers that took oath on June 9. Whereas all three Ministers with Unbiased Cost have been retained, out of 42 Ministers of State, 30 have been dropped.
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Those that haven’t been repeated embody V.Okay. Singh, Faggansingh Kulaste, Ashwini Choubey, Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Sanjeev Balyan, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Subhas Sarkar, Nisith Pramanik, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh and Pratima Bhoumik.
Meenakshi Lekhi, Munjapara Mahendrabhai, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Kailash Choudhary, Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Bharati Pravin Pawar, Kaushal Kishore, Bhagwanth Khubha and V. Muraleedharan have additionally not been retained.
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, John Barla, Bishweswar Tudu, Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Devusinh Chauhan, Ajay Bhatt, A. Narayanaswamy, Som Parkash, Rameswar Teli and Darshana Vikram Jardosh have additionally not made it to the brand new Council of Ministers.
Eighteen of the dropped Ministers had misplaced the elections. L. Murugan is the one Minister of State from the earlier authorities who misplaced the election however has been retained. He’s already a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Smriti Irani, a Cupboard Minister in each phrases of the Modi Authorities, misplaced the election from Amethi to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s aide Kishori Lal Sharma by a margin of over 1.69 lakh votes.
Irani was HRD Minister and Textile Minister within the first time period whereas she held Girls and Youngster Improvement and Minority Affairs portfolios in Modi 2.0.
Mr. Parshottam Rupala was the Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying within the earlier authorities.
Mr. Rupala, who discovered himself within the eye of a storm kicked off by his allegedly derogatory remarks concerning the Kshatriya group forward of elections, ultimately emerged unscathed as he gained Gujarat’s Rajkot Lok Sabha seat with a report margin of round 5 lakh votes.
His Deputy within the Fisheries Ministry, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan has additionally been dropped.
Mr. Balyan, a two-time MP from Muzaffarnagar, misplaced the seat by over 24,000 votes this time.
Mr. Thakur, who gained for the fifth consecutive time from the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency, held the twin cost of the Ministry of Data and Broadcasting and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities, in Modi 2.0.
Mr. Pandey, Minister of Heavy Industries, was in search of a hat-trick from Chandauli however misplaced to Samajwadi Get together’s Birendra Singh.
Raj Kumar Singh, earlier the Union Minister for energy and renewable vitality, misplaced the seat in Bihar’s Arrah to CPI(ML)-Liberation’s Sudama Prasad by 59,808 votes.
Mr. Rane, who was the MSME Minister, wrested Ratnagiri- Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena in a status battle.
That is the primary time the BJP has gained a Parliamentary seat within the coastal Konkan area, a conventional stronghold of the Shiv Sena (Undivided).
Former Maharashtra CM Rane joined the BJP in 2019 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. This was his debut Lok Sabha election.
Mr. Chandrashekhar, who was the Minister of State for Ability Improvement, Electronics and IT and Jalshakti, misplaced the election from Thiruvananthapuram to sitting Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
“At present curtains down on my 18-year stint of public service of which 3 years I had the privilege to serve with PM @narendramodi ji’s TeamModi2.0. I actually didn’t intend to finish my 18 years of public service as a candidate who misplaced an election however that’s how its turned out.
“My deepest due to all these I met, all those that supported me — and particularly all these karyakartas and leaders who so impressed and energized me. Thanks additionally to my colleagues in govt over final 3 years,” Mr. Chandrashekhar wrote on X.
Former Union Minister of state for sport and youth affairs Mr. Pramanik misplaced the Cooch Behar seat in West Bengal to TMC’s Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia by 39,250 votes.
Mr. Sarkar, who was MoS Training within the Modi 2.0 Authorities, misplaced the Bankura seat to Trinamool Congress’s Arup Chakraborty by 32,778 votes.
