Smriti Irani' s first electoral contest was in 2004, when she contested against Kapil Sibal in Chandni Chowk and was defeated.
Ten years on, Irani is not only a cabinet minister, she also holds the ministry, HRD, that was held by Sibal from 2009-2012.
2. PM Chai-wala invite for Dr Chai-wala
Shahzad Ibrahimi, a doctorate from JNU who runs a dhaba on its campus for a living, received the "biggest happiness" of his life when he was invited to attend the swearing-in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"A chai-wala has become PM. And he has remembered another chai-wala to witness it. I am overwhelmed. I am so happy. I cannot describe it," Ibrahimi said. He got the invitation after a leader of RLSP, a BJP ally in Bihar, shared his profile with Modi's office, requesting it for an invite for him. And it was duly delivered. "I hope under Modi nobody with my academic credentials has to sell tea," he said. (Source: PTI)
3. What's in a name? Everything
Veteran Telugu Desam leader Ashok Gajapathi Raju omitted his own name while taking oath as cabinet minister. President Pranab Mukherjee, who hadn't spoken beyond "Main" or "I" while administering the oath to others, interrupted Raju and asked him to repeat the lines with his name.
4. Entering government, feet first
Squabbles and dissensions were all forgotten amid a very public display of respect for each other. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ananth Kumar, Gopinath Munde, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Nitin Gadkari met senior BJP leader L K Advani and bowed down to touch his feet.
5. Straight out of a masala script
Bollywood actors Vivek Oberoi and Salman Khan, who do not see eye to eye following a public fallout over actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan years ago, were both present at the ceremony. One news outlet ran a smart headline: 'Divided by Aishwarya, united by Modi.' Meanwhile, Amitabh Bachchan, who has been the brand ambassador for Gujarat tourism throughout Modi's tenure as CM of the state, was absent from the PM's inauguration ceremony and said to be shooting for a film.
6. In God they trust
Every minister took oath in the name of God. It appears there are no atheists in the new cabinet.
7. Water, water, nowhere
If there was one thing conspicuous by its absence, it was water. There were parched throats everywhere and the heat was so abusive that Rohan Jaitley, the son of Arun Jaitley, fainted. He had to be rushed to a nearby hospital for rehydration.
8. Will Arun forgive Amritsar?
Amritsar may have snubbed Arun Jaitley in the LS polls, but now that he has bagged the finance ministry the city is hoping the key BJP strategist would forgive, forget and work on his old poll promises. Jaitley had talked of turning Amritsar into a tourist hub and opening up its trade with Pakistan via Attari.
Businessmen hope that Jaitley will push to revive the declining manufacturing sector in the state by improving infrastructure.
9. MSY comes, for son's sake
Will Mulayam Singh Yadav try to cozy up to the newly sworn in NDA government for the sake of son and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav? Murmurs to this effect started up when the Samajwadi Party chief trooped in en famille into the swearing in ceremony on Monday. Sources within the state administration said the SP chief, despite his loathing for the BJP, could not have avoided the ceremony given Modi's discretion in allocation of funds to states.
10. Style bhais on the red carpet
Modi turned up in his standard kurta-jacket ensemble for his inauguration as PM. For his special evening he wore a light cream kurta and a matching Nehru jacket. At the other end of the style spectrum was Bappi Lahiri who had lost as the BJP candidate from Srerampur in West Bengal. The composer came dressed in, what else, lots of gold.
11. English will do, thank you
Until Venkaiah Naidu turned up, the oath taking was an all-Hindi affair. The leader from Andhra Pradesh was the first to say his lines in English, followed by Sadananda Gowda, the former Karnataka CM. Najma Heptullah, Maneka Gandhi, Ashok Gajpathi Raju, Harsmirat Kaur, Sarbanand Sonwal and Nirmala Seetharaman favoured the Queen's language too.
12. Put some jaldi in it
The ceremonial pace of the swearing-in ceremony was getting a tad too uncomfortable in the sweltering heat. That's when President Mukherjee decided to speed up the proceedings. He nudged secretary Omita Paul to fast forward the announcements. When Najma Heptullah was still signing the register after taking oath, he was heard telling Paul: "You announce. They will take time.'' Paul did exactly that.
13. Your time, my time
How the wheels of fortune turn. The last time NDA was in power, Murli Manohar Joshi was the all powerful HRD minister and Uma Bharti a disgruntled junior reporting to him. She had been so unhappy with her senior that she refused to operate from her office in Shastri Bhavan for a long time. But Monday evening, she was all smiles as she joined the Modi cabinet. Joshi, on the other hand, was a shadow of his former self, a dry smile pasted on his face through the evening.
14. Stars and stalwarts
The Hindi film industry was conspicuously present. Though Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, once an inseparable creative duo, sat far apart, Hema Malini remained close by her husband Dharmendra's side. Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya may have been noticeably absent, but other Bollywood celebs made up for the glam quotient. There was Vinod Khanna, Anupam Kher, Poonam Dhillon Madhur Bhandarkar and Vivek Oberoi.
Kirron Kher was spotted sitting with Varun Gandhi, both triumphant BJP MPs. Salman Khan, who was once seen with Modi during the PM's campaigning days, was there again - this time in the audience.
15. Business class
Two big tycoons from Gujarat were there to cheer. Both the Ambani brothers came accompanied by their khandan. Mukesh Ambani was there with wife Nita and two sons. A little later, younger brother Anil Ambani walked in with mother Kokilaben and wife Tina. The two families chose to sit apart. Gautam Adani was the other big business name in the forecourt.
16. Parliament by the Ganga
Varanasi celebrated Narendra Modi's ascent to the prime ministerial chair with a sand replica of the Parliament House raised on the banks of the Ganga. BJP workers and supporters had begun celebrating at the ghats from around dawn. They distributed sweets to those who came to bathe in the river.
Groups of BJP workers also performed dugdhabhishek, offering milk to the Ganga at Dashaswamedh Ghat. Local BJP leader Anup Jaiswal said the ritual was performed with 151 litres of milk. Bharatiya Awam Party (Rashtriya), a Muslim women's party that supports the BJP, offered 'chadar' at the 'mazaar' of Bholeshah Diwan in Pilikothi area.
17. Nadda next?
With the buzz gaining ground that BJP general secretary J P Nadda will take over as the next party president from Rajnath Singh, he was congratulated by partymen and the media alike the moment he arrived at the forecourt and headed for his seat through the long red-carpet path. An embarrassed Nadda tried to downplay the issue, but everyone kept saying, "It is just a matter of 10-days now."
18. Words of mouth
Most BJP spokespersons have been handsomely rewarded. Ravishankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, Prakash Javdekar and Smriti Irani have all been rewarded with plum ministerial posts.
19. Ambani-Birla bonds
When Aditya Birla group chairman Kumarmangalam Birla entered the swearing-in venue, he could not find a seat for himself. Noticing this, RIL chief Mukesh Ambani beckoned Birla to a seat near him. Birla, who was standing at a distance, signalled that he was fine. Within minutes, Ambani's man Friday V Balasubramanium, or Balu as he is popularly referred to, pulled out a seat from nowhere for Birla.
20. Handle with care
Early in the morning on Monday, Sushma Swaraj changed her Twitter handle from @SushmaSwarajBjp to just @ SushmaSwaraj. Sources say this was done as an act of propriety ahead of her assuming a cabinet post.
21. Rudy shock
The non-inclusion of BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy in the Modi Cabinet surprised many within and outside the party. On Sunday, when Rudy texted to his friends that he was not going to make it to Team Modi, it left his supporters shocked. "We are terribly upset. But we have absolutely no idea why," said a close friend of the leader, who went incommunicado after his meeting with Modi at Gujarat Bhavan on Sunday.
22. Congress crowd
While not many Congress leaders were spotted at the Rashtrapati Bhawan function, among the few seen were E Ahmed, Renuka Chowdhary, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Jairam Ramesh. P J Kurien and P Chidambaram were also among the guests present for the swearing-in.
23. Blood lines for Modi
Assamese artist Gautam Bardhan has painted Modi's portrait with his blood. Bardhan's 35-inch portrait also has a dove painted in the tri-colour, and Swami Vivekananda's face.
24. Smriti wears lotus on sari
New minister Smriti Irani sported her affiliation on her sari, which was adorned with images of the lotus.
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