UP CM meets Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari; congratulates them on taking oath in Modi 3.0 cabinet
Jun 10, 2024
New Delhi [India], June 10 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari at their respective residences to congratulate them for taking oath as Union Ministers in the Narendra Modi government.
"I paid a courtesy visit to Honourable Union Minister Shri @AmitShahji in New Delhi today and congratulated him. Thank you very much for providing your valuable time!" Adityanath said in a post on 'X' after meeting Union Minister Amit Shah.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trusted confidant Amit Shah was inducted into the Union Cabinet on Sunday. The 59-year-old BJP leader and the party's key strategist served as the Union Home Minister in the previous Modi government.
Shah had won Gujarat's Gandhinagar seat by a huge margin of 7,44,716 votes. Shah gathered 10,10,972 votes beating Congress' Sonal Patel who got 2,66,256.
After meeting Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister posted, "I paid a courtesy visit to Honourable Union Minister Shri @nitin_gadkariji in New Delhi today and congratulated him. Thank you very much for providing your valuable time!"
Nitin Gadkari took oath as Union Cabinet Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday. Gadkari won the Lok Sabha elections from the Nagpur constituency, defeating his nearest Congress rival by a margin of 1,37, 603 votes.
"I paid a courtesy visit to Honourable Union Minister Shri @rajnathsingh
ji in New Delhi today and congratulated him. Thank you very much for providing your valuable time!" Adityanath posted after meeting Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday.
Singh took oath as Union Cabinet Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday. He has been a minister in PM Modi's cabinet since 2014 when Narendra Modi became Prime Minister for the first time.
Rajnath Singh, the defence minister secured the Lucknow seat for the third consecutive term, overcoming Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra by 1,35,159 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.