New Delhi: - Of the 33 Cabinet ministers, 15 hold a degree in law.
- 11 Cabinet ministers are postgraduates while 16 have completed their graduation.
- Four cabinet ministers including the PM hold a Ph.D., one has an M.Phil. degree and one is a doctor.
- Six Cabinet ministers of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's new team are 'non-believers'. These ministers "solemnly affirmed" that they would bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution while taking oath.
- The 'atheist' ministers are A K Antony, P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, M Veerappa Moily, S Jaipal Reddy and C P Joshi, a first-timer in the cabinet.
- The Prime Minister and 13 of his ministers took the oath in the name of God. The other ministers took oath in the name of God include Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Vayalar Ravi, S M Krishna, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kamal Nath, Meira Kumar, Murli Deora, Kapil Sibal, Ambika Soni, B K Handique and Anand Sharma.
- As many as three MPs from the national capital, which is nearly half of the total MPs of Delhi, are in the PM's council of ministers.
- Agatha Sangma is the youngest minister at 28, SM Krishna the oldest at 77.
- The average age of the council of ministers is now a little over 62 years.
- One out of every four UPA MPs is a minister.
- The southern states have a higher MP:Minister ratio than the North.
- Karnataka, with four ministers with 11 UPA MPs.
- Kerala is close with six out of 19.
- Of 35 UPA MPs, Tamil Nadu has nine ministers - most of them from the DMK.
- But DMK chief Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi is not a minister, but son MK Azhagiri is.
- Andhra Pradesh has the least of the southern states with four ministers.
- Vilasrao Deshmukh and SM Krishna are not members of any House.
- Among dropped ministers from last time: Arjun Singh, Shivraj Patil (who had already been dropped post 26/11), Sis Ram Ola, Saifudin Soz, Mahavir Prasad, TR Baalu, Oscar Fernandes, Ashwini Kumar, Santosh Bagrodia.
- Despite the Congress bounty in Haryana, only Kumari Selja makes it to a ministerial post.
- UP, which gave the Congress 21 seats under Rahul Gandhi's party revival plan, has only five ministers, but not a single Cabinet post.
- There are five Muslim ministers.
- There are 10 Dalit ministers.
- There are nine women ministers.
- There are nine former chief ministers in the Cabinet.
- Ally tally: Trinamool Congress seven (one Cabinet, six MoS), DMK even (three Cabinet, four MoS), NCP three (One Cabinet, one MoS Independent Charge and one MoS), Muslim League and NCP one each.
- Four former Indian Youth Congress presidents become ministers - Anand Sharma, Mukul Wasnik, Gurudas Kamat and Selja.
- Most of the younger bunch of ministers are sons and daughters of politicians.