BJP leaders and former Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur, and Narayan Rane are not part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third cabinet. Smriti Irani, who was the Women and Child Development Minister in the second term of the Modi government, lost the Lok Sabha election from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi by over 1.6 lakh votes to Congress loyalist Kishori Lal Sharma.
She had defeated Congress’s Rahul Gandhi in his family bastion five years ago. Anurag Thakur, who held the sports information and broadcasting portfolios, won the general election from Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur but is not included in the Union Cabinet this time. Narayan Rane, the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Minister in Modi 2.0, won the Lok Sabha election from Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg but has also been excluded from the new cabinet.
Some of the BJP leaders who are part of the Modi 3.0 cabinet include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Nitin Gadkari, Mansukh Mandaviya, Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Yadav, Prahlad Joshi, Kiren Rijiju, CR Paatil, L Murugan, Hardeep Puri, ML Khattar, Shivraj Chouhan, Gajendra Shekhawat, Suresh Gopi, and Jitin Prasada. Leaders from other parties in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) who have been included are HD Kumaraswamy, Jayant Chaudhary, Pratap Jadhav, Ram Mohan Naidu, Sudesh Mahato, and Lallan Singh.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who lost to Shashi Tharoor in a close contest, is also missing from the new government. However, a majority of the outgoing ministers are set to continue in the Modi 3.0 cabinet.