DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES GOYAL,PURI,VAISHNAW,PRADHAN retain their portfolios THE CABINET, NDA III `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 AVIATIONTOMSMETOINDUSTRY for allies TDP, JDU, JDS, HAM, LJP FIRSTCABINETMEETAPPROVES proposals for rural housing, farms Continew PRIME MINISTER NarendraModi Personnel,PublicGrievances andPensions;AtomicEnergy; Space;allimportantpolicy issues;andallotherportfolios notallocatedtoanyminister CABINET MINISTERS PM says security and peace key as Nawaz sends hope message RajnathSingh, Defence AmitShah, HomeAffairs;Cooperation NitinGadkari, RoadTransportandHighways JPNadda, Health&Family Welfare;Chemicals&Fertilizers ShivrajSinghChouhan, AgricultureandFarmersWelfare; RuralDevelopment NirmalaSitharaman, SHUBHAJIT ROY Finance;CorporateAffairs NEW DELHI, JUNE 10 SJaishankar, ExternalAffairs ManoharLal, Housing&UrbanAffairs;Power HDKumaraswamy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs his first Cabinet meeting at the start of his third term in New Delhi, Monday. ANI PAGE8 PiyushGoyal, Big 4 of Cabinet Committee on Security among 15 in Council who retain portfolios CommerceandIndustry DharmendraPradhan, Education JitanRamManjhi, Micro,Small andMediumEnterprises RajivRanjanSingh, PanchayatiRaj;Fisheries,Animal Husbandry&Dairying SarbanandaSonowal, Ports, Shipping&Waterways VirendraKumar, SocialJustice andEmpowerment KRammohanNaidu, CivilAviation PralhadJoshi, ConsumerAffairs, FoodandPublicDistribution;New andRenewableEnergy JualOram, TribalAffairs GirirajSingh,Textiles AshwiniVaishnaw, Railways; InformationandBroadcasting; ElectronicsandInformation Technology JyotiradityaScindia, Communications;Development ofNorthEasternRegion BhupenderYadav, Environment,Forestand ClimateChange GajendraSinghShekhawat, Culture;Tourism AnnpurnaDevi WomenandChildDevelopment KirenRijiju, ParliamentaryAffairs; MinorityAffairs HardeepSinghPuri PetroleumandNaturalGas MansukhMandaviya, Labour andEmployment;YouthAffairsand Sports GKishanReddy, Coal;Mines ChiragPaswan, FoodProcessing Industries CRPaatil, JalShakti LIZ MATHEW & MANOJ CG NEW DELHI, JUNE 10 CONTINUING THE work done in the second term with a refresh rather than a reboot — this is the key signal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministersastheirportfolioswere announced Monday evening, a day after the NDA government took oath for the third term. Given the political imperatives of a coalition in which the BJP, short of a majority, needs allies, the Council may have been expanded to 72 but the portfolio allocationreflectedcontinuityin critical areas where progress is cumulative — with no change in the Cabinet Committee on Security. RajnathSinghwasretainedas Defence Minister, so was Amit Shah as Home Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman as Finance Minister and S Jaishankar as External Affairs Minister. Shah also retained the Ministry of Cooperation while Sitharaman will continue to have Corporate Affairsportfoliowithherbesides Finance. This also put to rest speculation on whether coalition compulsionswouldhavearoletoplay in the composition of the CCS. Keeping the CCS unchanged, Modi leveraged the experience and domain expertise of former CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 True sevak never arrogant, decorum not kept in polls, flags RSS chief Bhagwat DEEPTIMAN TIWARY NEW DELHI, JUNE 10 IN FIRST public remarks on the outcomeoftheelectionsinwhich the BJP fell short of a majority in Lok Sabha, RSS chief Mohan BhagwatsaidMondaythatatrue sevak (one who serves the people)doesnothave“ahankar”(arrogance) and works without RSS chief says need to address Manipur on priority NEW DELHI, JUNE 10 THE BJP-LED NDA government on Monday allocated the ministries of Steel, Civil Aviation, Food Processing Industries, MSME, and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, to its allies from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. As CM, he changed the face of MP fields causing any hurt to others. Referring to the bitter poll campaign, he said “decorum was not CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Among allies, TDP gets Aviation, Chirag Food Processing, JDU Fisheries DEEPTIMAN TIWARY & VIKAS PATHAK In Shivraj, agriculture gets wealth of his MP work experience The BJP’s biggest ally in the NDA, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP),wasallocatedtheMinistry of Civil Aviation. K Ram Mohan Naidu, son of veteran TDP leader Yerran Naidu, and the youngest Cabinet minister in the government, will handle this portfolio. Notably, in Prime Minister NarendraModi’sfirstterm,when TDP was in alliance with the BJP at the Centre, the ministry was CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 HARISH DAMODARAN NEW DELHI, JUNE 10 IN SHIVRAJ Singh Chouhan, agriculture has finally a heavyweightministerinthenewModi government. The 65-year-old is widely credited with having turned MadhyaPradeshinto an agriculture powerhouse through his ● largely unbroken tenure — there was a 15-monthbreakfromDecember 2018 to March 2020 — as Chief Minister of the state from November 2005 to December 2023. Underhiswatch,MPbecame India’s second largest producer E EXPLAINED HeavyIndustries;Steel CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Pretended to be dead until militants In Andhra Pradesh, a left: Survivors recount Reasi horror regime change brings a ghost city back to life ARUN SHARMA REASI, JUNE 10 FROM PARENTS mourning the loss of their children to people wholaystillandpretendedtobe deadtoescapethegunmen’sfire, the survivors of Sunday’s terror attackonabuscarryingpilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district were struggling to recover from the shock. They were from different states, including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, and after visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine near Katra town, they Army personnel conduct a search operation in Reasi district of J&K Monday PTI took a bus Sunday morning to Shiv Khouri — a revered shrine of Lord Shiva near Ransoo in Pouni tehsil. It was on their way back from Shiv Khouri to Katra that their bus was targeted by militants. Nine people, including seven pilgrims,werekilledand38people were injured in the attack on the bus near Ransoo. Santosh Kumar Verma from UP’sBalrampurdistrictwaswith his family on the bus, and was seated on the driver’s side. He said the bus had hardly moved a few kilometres from Ransoo CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SREENIVAS JANYALA AMARAVATI, JUNE 10 THE HUM of bulldozers and the chatter of construction workers aresure-shotsignsof aghostcity coming back to life. Even before Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu takes oath as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh,wheelsareinmotion to revive his dream project of the Amaravati capital city, with workers and engineers on the ground saying they have re- Finishing touches are being given to the buildings in Amaravati. Sreenivas Janyala ceived directions to that end. “We are clearing the weeds and the vegetation around CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY A DAY after the NDA government’scouncilof ministerswere sworn in, Pakistan’s top leader and former Prime Minister NawazSharif,whoheadstheruling PML(N), reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that the BJP’s “success in recent elections reflects the confidence of the people in your leadership”. “Let us replace hate with hope and seize the opportunity to shape the destiny of the two billion people of South Asia,” he posted on X. Modi replied in about two hours, saying that “the people of Indiahavealwaysstoodforpeace, security and progressive ideas”, Modi replied to wishes from Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif and PML(N) chief Nawaz Sharif andthat“advancingthewell-being and security of our people shallalwaysremainourpriority”. His emphasis on “security” is a message to Nawaz that countering terrorism is a top priority. Earlier,NawazSharif’syounger CONTINUED ON PAGE 2