As Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 3.0 cabinet ministers take oath on Sunday, some key BJP leaders and former union ministers are dropped. Union ministers including Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur, Narayan Rane and Rajeev Chandrashekar are the few BJP leaders dropped from the Modi 2.0 cabinet.
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Smriti Irani, sworn in as the Women and Child Development Minister in the Modi 2.0 cabinet lost this Lok Sabha election from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi by over 1.6 lakh votes to Congress' Kishori Lal Sharma.
Anurag Thakur, who won the Lok Sabha election from Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur, was the former sports and information and broadcasting minister. He has been dropped from the Modi 3.0 cabinet.
Narayan Rane, who held the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises portfolio in Modi 2.0. He won the Lok Sabha election from Maharashtra's Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg.
Rajeev Chandrashekar, who was the Electronic and Information Technology minister in the previous Modi government lost to Congress' Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram constituency, Kerala.
Most of the former union ministers were retained by the Modi government this term too. The BJP leaders part of the Modi 3.0 cabinet include Amit Shah, S. Jaishankar, Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju, Bhupendra Yadav, Prahlad Joshi, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Piyush Goyal and Mansukh Mandaviya.
