New Delhi: Manmohan Singh will be sworn in for a second term as Prime Minister of India on Friday.
Seventy-six-year-old Singh will be administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Pratibha Patil at the high domed Ashoka Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The swearing-in ceremony will commence at 1830 hrs IST, official sources said.
The first session of the newly constituted Lok Sabha was likely to begin from June two and was expected to continue till June 10.
The sources said the budget session was expected to be held in first week of July
The Congress-led coalition won a clear victory in the general election and has raised hopes of greater economic reforms. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from Tamil Nadu said it would offer its 18 MPs only as outside support to the coalition, potentially weakening the Government's ability to pass bills in Parliament.
Congress, which heads the coalition, will likely retain key ministerial portfolios such as finance but several of its allies were also demanding important portfolios, causing disagreements.
"We have support of 322 parliamentarians and we are not worried about falling short at all," Janardhan Dwivedi, a senior Congress leader, said.
Who is getting what at this point:
- Home Minister - P Chidambaram
- Finance Minister - Pranab Mukherjee
- Defence Minister - A K Antony
- Foreign Minister - Salman Khursheed, Kamal Nath or SM Krishna
- Railways Minister - Mamata Banerjee
- HRD Minister - Kapil Sibal
- Agriculture Minister - Sharad Pawar
- Parliamentary Affairs - Ghulam Nabi Azad
- Petroleum Minister - Murli Deora
- Commerce Minister - Kamal Nath or Jairam Ramesh
- Health Minister - Kanimozhi ( question mark)
- Other Ministers - Azhagiri ( question mark), Dayanidhi Maran ( question mark), Ambika Soni, Girija Vyas, Praful Patel , Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasad, Sachin Pilot
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