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With unchanged core Cabinet team, Modi signals it is business as usual for India
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At Mr Modi's inauguration ceremony in New Delhi are (front row, from left) Indian President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.
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NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unchanged core Cabinet team is a signal to jittery investors that it is business as usual in India, despite his party’s disappointing showing at the polls.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained all the major portfolios, but having failed to secure an outright parliamentary majority, it has had to cede 11 Cabinet and junior ministers’ posts to its coalition partners.
