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President of the Republic of India: Droupadi Murmu: 25 July 2022 [1] Vice President of the Republic of India: Jagdeep Dhankhar: 11 August 2022 [2] Prime Minister of the Republic of India: Narendra Modi: 26 May 2014 [3] Chief Justice of the Republic of India: Sanjiv Khanna: 11 November 2024 Speaker of Lok Sabha: Om Birla: 19 June 2019 [4] Chief ...
The prime minister is appointed by the president of India; however, the prime minister has to enjoy the confidence of the majority of Lok Sabha members, who are directly elected every five years, unless a prime minister resigns. The prime minister is the presiding member of the Council of Ministers of the Union government. The prime minister ...
Following the 2021 cabinet reshuffle, there were three ministers of state in the ministry, namely V. Muraleedharan, Meenakshi Lekhi, and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh. Four ministers of state for external affairs, viz. Dinesh Singh, Bali Ram Bhagat, K. Natwar Singh, and Salman Khurshid later went on to head the ministry as the ministers of external ...
The government is led by the president of India (currently Droupadi Murmu since 25 July 2022) who exercises the most executive power and selects the prime minister of India and other ministers for aid and advice. [3] The country is being legislated by a National Democratic Alliance-led legislature since 2014. [4]
India follows a parliamentary system in which the prime minister is the presiding head of the government and chief of the executive of the government. In such systems, the head of state, or, the head of state's official representative (i.e., the monarch, president, or governor-general) usually holds a purely ceremonial position and acts—on most matters—only on the advice of the prime minister.
Merged to form Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs with three departments - Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Department of Sugar and Edible Oils and Department of Consumer Affairs. On 15 October 1999, the new ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, having the same three departments.
Mamata Banerjee the Chief Minister of West Bengal, who has the longest continuous incumbency serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 290 days) and Rekha Gupta of Delhi are the only two incumbent female Chief Ministers. Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan (aged 79) is the oldest and Pema Khandu (aged 45), the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh is the ...
Ministry Formation date Election Governing party Prime Minister 1 Nehru I: 15 August 1947 Constituent Assembly: Indian National Congress: Jawaharlal Nehru: 2 Nehru II: 15 April 1952 1951–52: 3 Nehru III: 4 April 1957 1957: 4 Nehru IV: 2 April 1962 1962: Acting Nanda I: 27 May 1964 None Gulzarilal Nanda: 5 Shastri: 9 June 1964 None Lal Bahadur ...