Six of the 19 Union Ministers inducted into the new Manmohan Singh Cabinet today are former chief ministers.

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The former chief ministers represent four states -- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir.

Karnataka and Maharashtra will have two former chief ministers each in the new Council of Ministers.

M Veerapa Moily and S M Krishna, former chief ministers of Karnataka along with Sushil Kumar Shinde and Sharad Pawar, former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra have been inducted in the Cabinet.

Shinde held the cabinet ministry for Power in the UPA government while Pawar was the Agriculture Minister.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad would also join the Cabinet along with A K Antony, the former Kerala chief minister who is the Defence Minister at present.

All of them but Moily and Krishna had been ministers in the previous UPA government. Azad had resigned from the Cabinet to become the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

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