Thirty-seven National Democratic Alliance leaders, including prominent names like Smriti Irani and Anurag Singh Thakur, were on Sunday dropped from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Union Council of Ministers.

Irani lost Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi Lok Sabha constituency to veteran Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma by 1.67 lakh votes on June 4.

Modi on Sunday took oath as the prime minister for the third consecutive term at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Along with him, the 72-member Union Council of Ministers was administered the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu.

The council included 30 Cabinet ministers, five ministers of state (independent charge) and 36 ministers of state. The ministerial portfolios are expected to be announced by today.

Among those who were dropped are Arjun Munda, who was the minister of tribal affairs and minister of agriculture and farmers welfare, Parshottam Rupala, who was the minister of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, and Narayan Tatu Rane, who was the minister of micro, small and medium enterprises.

Irani was the minister of women and child development and minister of minority affairs. Thakur was the minister of information and broadcasting and minister of youth affairs and sports in the second National Democratic Alliance government.

Additionally, Raj Kumar Singh, the minister of power and minister of new and renewable energy, and Mahendra Nath Pandey, the minister of heavy industries, were also dropped from the Cabinet.

Of the seven ministers, Munda, Irani, Pandey, and Raj Kumar Singh lost the Lok Sabha polls from their constituencies.

Out of the 42 ministers of state, 30 have been dropped, including Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who was the minister of state in the Ministry of Skill Development, and Minister of State for External Affairs General (retired) VK Singh. Chandrasekhar lost the Lok Sabha election from Thiruvananthapuram to the Congress’ Shashi Tharoor.

Among others who have not been retained are Meenakshi Lekhi, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, V Muraleedharan, Pratima Bhoumik and Nisith Pramanik.

BJP chief JP Nadda has returned to the Union Council of Ministers. While Nadda was the Union health minister during the first term of the Modi government, he was not part of the Cabinet during the second term.