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New Delhi: Top leaders of the BJP retained their ministries in Prime Minister Narendra Modis third term, while many faces surfaced from alliance partners as their support is crucial to the coalition...
Amit Shah kept the home ministry, Rajnath Singh defence, Nirmala Sitharaman finance and S. Jaishankar external affairs, while Nitin Gadkari retained the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways...
Former chief minister of Haryana and first-time MP Manohar Lal Khattar, was allocated the power ministry along with housing and urban affairs...
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was appointed the new agriculture minister, and also got the Ministry of Rural Development...
The BJPs Kiren Rijiju, who was the minister of earth sciences and food processing industries in the previous term was appointed to the parliamentary affairs ministry, replacing Prahlad Joshi..
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