Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took oath at the head of a coalition government, is holding his first cabinet meeting at his residence in Delhi. On agenda is advising the President to formulate the 18th Lok Sabha. In its first decision, the Cabinet has cleared plans to build 3 crore houses for the rural and urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. This morning, PM Modi signed his first file authorising the release of around Rs 20,000 crore to about 9.3 crore farmers. All eyes, meanwhile, are on the long-awaited allocation of portfolios.
Thirty cabinet ministers, new and old, took oath last evening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Five Ministers of State with Independent charge and 36 junior ministers were also sworn in.
The cabinet meeting, though, is taking place amid grumblings from allies — Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United.
While the Sena wants more cabinet berths — it has been given only one so far — Mr Pawar’s party, which won only one seat, is unhappy with the BJP offer of a junior minister berth with Independent charge.
The candidate for the post is Praful Patel, who was a cabinet minister in the erstwhile Manmohan Singh government. The NCP is now arguing that anything less than a cabinet berth will be a demotion for Mr Patel.
TDP and JD(U) are both angling for the post of the Lok Sabha Speaker — a position of supreme importance in a coalition government.
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