
While PM Modi has retained high-profile BJP leaders from Maharashtra reminiscent of Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Prakash Jawdekar and RPI-A pace-setter Ramdas Athavale in his council of ministers, two ministers from the 2014 NDA regime-Suresh Prabhu and Subhash Bhamre-did now not figure in the first set of cupboard participants who took oath on Thursday.