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Manmohan sworn in for second term

Paliab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
Manmohan Singh was sworn in as the prime minister of India for a second term yesterday along with the induction of his 20-member new coalitiongovernment.
However, his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had its first coalition hiccup following differences between Congress and its ally Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK ) over sharing of ministerial posts and portfolios.
President Pratibha Patil
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administered the oath of office to 76-year-old Manmohan and his cabinet in a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi last evening.
Manmohan is the first prime minister since the country's postindependence leader Jawaharlal Nehru, to return to the office for a successive term.
Those sworn in yesterday along with the prime minister are senior Congress leaders Pranab Mukherjee, AK Antony, P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, S Jaipal Reddy, Kamal Nath, Vayalar Ravi, Meira Kumar, Murli Deora, Kapil Sibal, Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma, SM Krishna, M Veerappa Moily, and Ghulam Nabi Azad, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
The names of senior Congress leaders HR Bhardwaj, Arjun Singh, and Saifuddin Soz, who were ministers in the previous government, did not find a place among those inducted yesterday.
Congress-led UPA won 262 seats in the 543-member parliament, just 10 short of the 272 needed for a working majority. The alliance quickly garnered pledges of support from independents and other parties like Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to take its strength to 322.
The Prime Minister's Office said in a release that yesterday's exercise will be followed in the next few days by an expansion of council of ministers including other cabinet ministers, ministers of state with independent charges, as well as other ministers of state, which will give due representation to allied parties.
The portfolios will be distributed by early next week, according to governmentsources.
Mamata Banerjee is the only cabinet minister from her party while five are ministers of state. Congress offered two cabinet posts to Trinamool Congress, but Mamata ,was . content with only one, apparently because she did not want anybody else from her party to be on a par with her stature.
The installation of the new government, almost a week after Congress returned to power with resounding victory in general elections, came hours after talks broke down between Congress and DMK, the regional party ruling southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Congress did not agree to DMK's demand for the number of ministerial posts and portfolios, said senior DMK leader TR Baalu yesterday morning after two days of hard haggling between the two parties, and DMK chief M Karunanidhi flew back to Chennai.
DMK was demanding nine cabinet positions, while Congress was willing to concede only six.
Congress was understood to be opposed to Karunanidhi's choices for ministers in the new cabinet, which included two senior party leaders Baalu and A Raja, whose performances in the previous government had left Prime Minister
Manmohan unhappy.
However, DMK is widely expected to eventually join the government, with talks set to continue after the ceremony while both parties reassess their stands.
"We arc not at all worried. We are friends," Baalu said.
Congress General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad is expected to travel to Chennai today in a bid to mollify Karunanidhi.