Manmohan Singh, 67 ministers sworn in

Among the Congress veterans who found their way back into government were Pranab Mukherjee, Arjun Singh, K Natwar Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Shankarsinh Vaghela, P M Sayeed and Hans Raj Bhardwaj.

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Laloo Prasad Yadav and his senior colleague Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Lok Janashakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president Shibu Soren, and Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao were also inducted into the Cabinet.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians who got Cabinet berths were T R Baalu, Dayanidhi Maran, and A Raja. Pattali Makkal Katchi chief S Ramadoss' son R Ambumani also made it into the Cabinet.

Other Congress leaders who got into the Cabinet were Kamal Nath, S Jaipal Reddy, Sisram Ola, P Chidambaram, Mahavir Prasad, P R Kyndiah, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sunil Dutt and Meira Kumar.

Surprise inclusions in the Cabinet were former Lok Sabha speaker Shivraj Patil and former deputy speaker P M Sayeed, both of whom were defeated in the recent general election.

After the Congress, the DMK has the largest representation in the Cabinet with three members followed by the RJD (two) and one each from the NCP, LJP, TRS, JMM and PMK.

Of the total 67 ministers, 42 belong to the Congress, eight to the RJD, seven to the DMK, three to the NCP, two each to the PMK and TRS, and one each to the LJP, JMM and Indian Union Muslim League.

The lion's share of eight of the 10 ministers of state with independent charge went to the Congress while the NCP and the RJD shared the other two.

The ministers of state with independent charge are Santosh Mohan Deb, Jagdish Tytler, Oscar Fernandes, Renuka Choudhary, Subodh Kant Sahay, Kapil Sibal, Vilas Muttemwar, Kumari Selja (all Congress), Praful Patel (NCP) and Premchand Gupta (RJD).