List of Former Chief Ministers, Now Are Part of Modi 3.0 Cabinet

Prime Minister Narendra Modi created history today when he returned as Prime Minister for the third consecutive time. With taking oath as Prime Minister for the third time, he became the second Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to achieve this feat. The biggest feature of the leaders who took oath for the ministerial post today was that about 6 such ministers who took oath have been Chief Ministers of different states like Rajnath Singh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Manohar Lal Khattar, HD Kumaraswamy, Sarbananda Sonowal and Jitan Ram Manjhi.

It is worth mentioning that the NDA allies in the Modi 3.0 cabinet starting from today include Chandrababu Naidu's TDP, Nitish Kumar-led JDU, Chirag Paswan's LJP, Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, Pawan Kalyan-led Jana Sena and Jayant Chaudhary's RLD. Ministers from these parties also took oath today.

Meet the Chief Ministers who have successfully held the post of Chief Minister of different states in the past and have now taken oath as ministers in Modi 3.0.

Rajnath Singh: Elected as a BJP MP from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He has held the post of Defense Minister in the previous Central Government.

• State- Uttar Pradesh
• Chief Minister period- 2000 to 2002
• Sl. 19th
• Party- BJP

Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Elected as BJP MP from Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh.

• State- Madhya Pradesh
• Chief Minister period- 2005 to 2018 and then from 2020 to 2023
• Party- BJP

Manohar Lal Khattar: Elected as BJP MP from Karnal, Haryana.

• State- Haryana
• Chief Minister period- 2014 to March 2024
• Sl. 10th
• Party- BJP

Sarbananda Sonowal: Elected as BJP MP from Dibrugarh, Assam.

• State- Assam
• Chief Minister period- 2016 to 2021
• Sl. 14th
• Party- BJP

HD Kumaraswamy: Elected as JD(S) MP from Mandya, Karnataka He has been elected.

• State- Karnataka
• Chief Minister period- 2006 to 2007 and 2018 to 2019
• Party- JD(S)

Jitan Ram Manjhi: He has been elected as MP from Gaya parliamentary constituency of Bihar on HAM party ticket.

• State- Bihar
• Chief Minister period- 2014 to February 2015
• Sl. 23rd
• Party- HAM