New Delhi. Many new and young MPs have been made cabinet ministers in Modi Government 3.0. Especially if we talk about the allies, the appointment of 36-year-old Ram Mohan Naidu from Telugu Desam Party as a cabinet minister caught everyone’s attention. He is the richest minister in Narendra Modi’s cabinet.
Ram Mohan Naidu is a Lok Sabha MP from Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh. He is the general secretary of Telugu Desam Party as well as the son of senior TDP leader Yerran Naidu. Chandrashekhar Pemmasani has been made a state minister from Telugu Desam Party. He has won the Lok Sabha elections from Guntur seat. This is Chandrashekhar’s first election. He has studied from America.
His total assets are more than Rs 5,700 crore, which makes him the richest minister in the Modi government.37-year-old Defence Minister Nikhil Khadse is the youngest minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, while 79-year-old Jitan Ram Manjhi has become the oldest minister. Khadse, MP from Maharashtra, took oath as Minister of State in PM Modi’s new Council of Ministers. He has won from Raver Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra.
At the same time, 79-year-old Manjhi took oath as Union Cabinet Minister in the third term of the Modi government. Manjhi has been the 23rd Chief Minister of Bihar and is the founding president of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Earlier, he has been the Minister of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare in Nitish Kumar’s cabinet. He has won from Gaya seat in the 2024 general elections.
Other young ministers include Chirag Paswan and Jayant Chaudhary. Chirag Paswan, president of Lok Janshakti Ram Vilas, another important constituent of the NDA, has also become a Union Minister in the Modi government. HD Kumaraswamy of ally Janata Dal Secular has been made a Cabinet Minister in the Narendra Modi government. He is an MP from Mandya, Karnataka.
Kumaraswamy has been the Chief Minister of Karnataka twice. His father HD Deve Gowda has been the Prime Minister of the country.Jayant Chaudhary and Anupriya from UP have been made ministers of state. Apart from them, Jayant Chaudhary, president of another ally party RLD, has also been made a minister in the central government. He has become a minister of state with independent charge. Pratap Jadhav of Shiv Sena and Ramdas Athawale of RPI have been made ministers of state from the quota of ally parties.