D-Day has finally arrived with Narendra Modi all set to become the only leader after Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to take oath as PM of India for the third consecutive time. While PM Modi's oath-taking ceremony will take place at 7: 15 pm at Rashtrapatu Bhavan, Narendra Modi hosted the NDA alliance leaders for a tea party ahead of the historic event. It is said that the list of Ministers who attended PM Modi's tea party will be taking oath in Modi Government 3.0 Cabinet. Some veteran leaders missed PM Modi's tea party. Leaders who did not attend PM Modi's tea party may not be getting berth in the new cabinet.
As per reports, over a dozen BJP MPs have been named in the council of ministers’ list and another dozen are from the allies. It is also said that Rajnath Singh, the senior BJP leader who won from the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, is likely to continue as the Union Defence Minister.
Below is a list of leaders who attended and did not attend PM Modi's tea party-
- Gujarat
Amit Shah (BJP)
S Jaishankar (BJP)
Mansukh Mandaviya (BJP)
CR Patil (BJP)
Nimuben Bambhania (BJP)
Odisha
Ashwini Vaishnaw (BJP)
Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP)
Jual Oram (BJP)
Karnataka
Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP)
HD Kumaraswamy (JDS)
Pralhad Joshi (BJP)
Shobha Karandlaje (BJP)
V Somanna (BJP)
Maharashtra
Piyush Goyal (BJP)
Nitin Gadkari (BJP)
Pratap Rao Jadhav (Shiv Sena)
Raksha Khadse (BJP)
Ram Das Athawale (Republican Party of India)
Goa
Shripad Naik (BJP)
Jammu & Kashmir
Jitendra Singh (BJP)
Himachal Pradesh
JP Nadda (BJP)
Madhya Pradesh
Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP)
Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP)
Savitri Thakur (BJP)
Virendra Kumar (BJP)
Uttar Pradesh
Hardeep Singh Puri (BJP)
Rajnath Singh (BJP)
Jayant Choudhary (RLD)
Jitin Prasada (BJP)
Pankaj Chaudhary (BJP)
BL Verma (BJP)
Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal-Soneylal)
Kamlesh Paswan (BJP)
SP Singh Baghel (BJP)
Bihar
Chirag Paswan (Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas)
Giriraj Singh (BJP)
Jitan Ram Manjhi (Hindustani Awam Morcha)
Ram Nath Thakur (JDU)
Lalan Singh (JDU)
Nityanand Rai (BJP)
Raj Bhushan Choudhary (Vikassheel Insaan Party )
Satish Dubey (BJP)
Arunachal Pradesh
Kiren Rijiju (BJP)
Rajasthan
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (BJP)
Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP)
Bhupender Yadav (BJP)
Bhagirath Chaudhary (BJP)
Haryana
ML Khattar (BJP)
Rao Inderjit Singh (BJP)
Kerala
Suresh Gopi (BJP)
Telangana
G Kishan Reddy (BJP)
Bandi Sanjay (BJP)
Punjab
Ravneet Singh Bittu (BJP)
Assam
Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP)
Pabitra Margherita (BJP)
Notably, leaders like Anurag Thakur, Kangana Ranaut, Smriti Irani, etc did not attend the tea party.