SWEARING-IN OF NEW GOVT 2004

(ESTD 1982)

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June 17, 2003

NEWS ANALYSIS:

SWEARING-IN OF NEW GOVT 2004

The New Government of India, of the Congress Coalition headed by Dr Manmohan Singh was sworn-in on Friday the 22^nd May 2004, at 0530 hours.

Minister	Swore in		In the name of		Party
Minister	English	Hindi	Constitution	God
Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh	x			x	Cong
Cabinet Ministers
Pranab Mukherjee	x			x	Cong
Arjun Singh		x		x	Cong
Sharad Pawar		x	x		NCP
Laloo Prasad Yadav		x		x	RJD
Shivraj Patil	x			x	Cong
Ram Vilas Paswan		x	x		LJP
Gulam Nabi Azad	x		x		Cong
Jaipal Reddy	x		x		Cong
Seeshram Ola		x		x	Cong
P Chidambaram	x		x		Cong
Mahavir Prasad		x		x	Cong
PR Kyndiah	x		x		Cong
TR Balu	x		x		DMK
Sankar Singh Vaghela		x		x	Cong
Natwar Singh	x			x	Cong
Kamal Nath		x		x	Cong
HR Bharadwaj	x		x		Cong
PM Sayeed	x			x	Cong
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		x	x		RJD
PR Dasmunsi	x			x	Cong
Manishankar Aiyer	x		x		Cong
Sunil Dutt	x			x	Cong
Meera Kumar		x		x	Cong
Chandrasekhar Rao	x			x	TRS
Shibu Soren		x		x	JMM
A Raja	x		x		DMK
Dayanidhi Maran	x		x		DMK
Anbumani Ramdoss	x		x		PMK

Cong – 18 NCP – 1 RJD – 2 LJP – 1 DMK – 3 TRS – 1 JMM – 1

PMK – 1

Those who took their Oaths of Office in English – 17

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 10, and on God - 7

Those who took their Oaths of Office in Hindi – 11

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 3, and on God - 8

Thus, 13 Cabinet Ministers took oath swearing by Constitution, and 15 in the name of God

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Ministers of State (independent Charge)

Minister	Swore in		In the name of		Party
Minister	English	Hindi	Constitution	God
Santosh Mohan Deb	X			X	Cong
Jagdish Tytler	X			X	Cong
Oscar Fernandes	X			X	Cong
Renuka Chowdhury		X		X	Cong
Subodh Kant Sahay	X	X		X	Cong
Kapil Sibal	X			X	Cong
Vilas Muttemwar		X	X		Cong
Kum Selja		X	X		Cong
Praful Patel		X		X	NCP
Premchand Gupta		X		X	RJD

Cong – 8 NCP – 1 RJD – 1

Those who took their Oaths of Office in English – 4

All of them, in the Name of God

Those who took their Oaths of Office in Hindi – 6

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 2, and on God - 4

Thus, only Two MOS Independent-Charge took oath swearing by Constitution, and 8 in the name of God

Ministers of State

Minister	Swore in		In the name of		Party
Minister	English	Hindi	Constitution	God
E Ahmed	X			X	IUML
Suresh Pachauri		X		X	Cong
BK Handique	X			X	Cong
Smt Panambaka Laxmi	X			X	Cong
Dr Narayana Rao	X			X	Cong
Shakeel Ahmed	X		X		Cong
Rao Inderjeet Singh	X			X	Cong
Narayanbhai Ratwa		X		X	Cong
K Rehman Khan	X			X	Cong
KH Muniyappa	X			X	Cong
MV Rajashekharan	X			X	Cong
Kantilal Bhuria	X			X	Cong
Manikrao Gavit		X		X	Cong
Shreeprakash Jaiswal		X		X	Cong
Prithviraj Chavan		X	X		Cong
Mohd Taslimudeen		X	X		RJD
Suryakanta Patil		X	X		NCP
Md Arif A Fatmi		X	X		RJD
A Narendra	X			X	TRS
R Velu	X		X		PMK
SS Palanimanikam	X		X		DMK
S Raghupati	X		X		DMK
K Venkatapati	X		X		DMK
Subhalaxmi Jagdeesan	X		X		DMK
EVK Elangovan	X		X		Cong
Smt Kanti Sing		X		X	RJD
Namonarayan Meena		X		X	Cong
J Prakash Narayan Yadav		X		X	RJD
Akhilesh Singh		X		X	RJD

Cong – 16 RJD – 5 DMK – 4 IUML – 1 NCP – 1 PMK – 1 TRS – 1

Those who took their Oaths of Office in English – 16

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 7, and on God - 9

Those who took their Oaths of Office in Hindi – 13

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 4, and on God - 9

Thus, 11 MOS took oath swearing by Constitution, and 18 in the name of God

Those who took their Oaths of Office in English – 37

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 17, and on God - 20

Those who took their Oaths of Office in Hindi – 30

Of them, in the Name of Constitution of India – 9, and on God - 21

Thus, in sum total :

Cabinet Ministers 28: Cong – 18 RJD – 2 DMK – 3 NCP – 1

PMK – 1 TRS – 1 LJP – 1 JMM – 1

MOS Independent charge 10: Cong – 8 RJD – 1 NCP – 1

MOS 29: Cong – 16 RJD – 5 DMK – 4 PMK – 1

NCP – 1 TRS – 1 IUML – 1

Total Ministers 67: Cong – 42 RJD – 8 DMK – 7 NCP – 3

PMK – 2 TRS – 2 LJP – 1 JMM – 1

IUML – 1

Finally it is seen that, apart from the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh who took Office swearing in English but in the name of god, 37 Ministers took Oath in English, and 30 in Hindi.

Amongst the Ministers of Govt of India sworn into Office in 2004, including the Prime Minister of India, only 26 swore by the Constitution, while the rest 42 swore in the name of God, of course their own gods and goddesses lingering in their minds. .

These show their progressive and rational mind, or the backward non-secular religious bent of mind?

Here it is not out of place, but in fact pertinent to recall that, our Messiah – Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, was meticulously dressed with an Hat Tie Suit and Boot. He invariably wrote in English. Because he was and still is a Great Dalit, whom we can never forget, and he, his Dress, his Language Writings and Speeches were all important and significant indices and symbols of Development and Progress. On the other-hand, the dominant castes Dhoti is a clear indication of arrogant stupidity, lazy relaxed Pyjama Kurta remains of feudal mindset, and use of hindi a clear indication of the unwillingness to develop, move forward, and progress. It is also a sign of deliberate domination on others, imposition of ones will over helpless others particularly the minorities, and total unwillingness to communicate and share your knowledge thoughts and ideas with others across the country, and hide what you say write and do from the shrinking international World. These also the first steps of the dangers of dictatorship, fooling the poor, march behind or rearwards movements and backwardness, fundamentalism, fascism, caste-exploitation, hindutva and pogroms.

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