Spark Spot

The list of Ministers formed by the Congress party leader Soniya Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Dr. Manmohan Singh – Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments not

Shri Pranab Mukherjee – Minister of Finance.

Shri Sharad Pawar – Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.

Shri A.K. Antony – Minister of Defence.

Shri P. Chidambaram – Minister of Home Affairs.

Km. Mamata Banerjee – Minister of Railways.

Shri S.M. Krishna – Minister of External Affairs.

Shri Virbhadra Singh – Minister of Steel

Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh – Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad – Minister of Health and Family Welfare

Shri Sushilkumar Shinde – Minister of Power

Shri M. Veerappa Moily -   Minister of Law and Justice

Dr. Farooq Abdullah – Minister of New and Renewable Energy

Shri S. Jaipal Reddy -  Minister of Urban Development

Shri Kamal Nath – Minister of Road Transport and Highways

Shri Vayalar Ravi -  Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs

Shri Dayanidhi Maran – Minister of Textiles

Shri A. Raja – Minister of Communications and Information Technology

Shri Murli Deora – Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Smt. Ambika Soni – Minister of Information and Broadcasting

Shri Mallikarjun Kharge – Minister of Labour and Employment

Shri Kapil Sibal – Minister of Human Resource Development

Shri B.K. Handique – Minister of Mines and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region

Shri Anand Sharma – Minister of Commerce and Industry

Shri C.P. Joshi – Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj

Shri Subodh Kant Sahay – Minister of Food Processing Industries

Dr. M.S. Gill – Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

Shri G.K. Vasan – Minister of Shipping

Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal – Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

Shri Mukul Wasnik – Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Shri Kantilal Bhuria – Minister of Tribal Affairs

Shri M.K. Alagiri – Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Kumari Selja – Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Tourism

NDA led by BJP was defeated in a very worse manner by Congress led UPA. BJP and its leader LK. Advani is totally disappointed with the election result that had came out in India. This is a really a very poor race put up BJP as the whole nation expected the UPA – NDA contest to be more close.

BJP is in a totally unfavorable position to form the government in India. Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh Saturday conceded that he had not anticipated his party’s poor electoral showing. ‘The BJP’s performance in the results is very much unexpected. The success for the NDA that we had hoped for has not materialised.

The reasons for this will be discussed later,’ Rajnath Singh told reporters.Asked if it had anything to do with BJP veteran Atal Bihari Vajpayee not campaigning for them, he said: ‘Vajpayeeji did not campaign for us this time but he did support us.’

United Progressive Alliance led by Congress Party is expected to get 216 seats, 40 seats ahead of the opposition BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, who are likely to win 177 seats in the general election. The Third Front, a loosely-built coalition of smaller regional parties led by the left parties, will end up with 105 seats, the channel said.

The left will not support a Congress-led government at the centre, but said no government was possible without the support of the Third Front, a coalition of smaller regional parties. The left recently softened its stand against the ruling Congress party, that may help it to form a government. The left will first try to form an alternative government with help from its allies in The Third Front, but if the front disintegrates, the left might might sit in the opposition and allow the Congress to form a government.

A regional party in the potential swing state of Andhra Pradesh said it will join the BJP-led coalition in a boost to the latter’s alliance building efforts. The regional Telangana Rashtra Samithi  said the NDA promised to fulfil the party’s longstanding demand for a separate Telangana state carved out of Andhra Pradesh, which currently boasts 42 seats in India’s national parliament. The TRS had fought the election with the Third Front.

The Congress party has opened its doors to all parties to cobble together a coalition, that could form the next government. The Congress, which has struggled to keep its allies happy, is negotiating with all political groups, even those belonging to the opposition BJP-led alliance, and was slightly ahead of the BJP-led bloc in exit polls.

Hindu-nationalist BJP, the main opposition party, said it will emerge as the single-largest after election results are announced on Saturday, and will form the government with help from allies, and new partners. The BJP was speaking to the AIADMK and Telugu Desam Party in southern India for possible alliances, which could help them get the numbers required to form a government

Indian Central Election Decision 2009 is about to be revealed in a couple of days time and major political parties were busy number crunching and reaching out to potential allies, while some leaders kept their fingers crossed hoping for victory when the results are known Saturday. It was a hectic day of confabulating for party leaders.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi met Ghulam Nabi Azad, the party general secretary in-charge of Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Puducherry, and held parleys with party leaders to chalk out strategies as a fractured mandate looked to be a certainty.

While Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani held consultations with party leaders and some partners of the National Democratic Alliance at his residence, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat and other movers and shakers of the Left parties were engaged in animated discussions in the national capital.