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IN A BREAK from the past two terms and indicating the changed dynamics, as many as 71 ministers (excluding the Prime Minister) were sworn into the Council of Ministers of the National Democratic Alliance government headed by PM Narendra Modi. These include 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State with independent charge, and 36 Ministers of State.
In the first term of the NDA government, 46 ministers were sworn in, and 58 in the second. The Council was, however, expanded in the middle