Narendra Modi sworn in as the Prime Minister of India for second term; Amit Shah inducted in cabinet
First Published: 30th May, 2019 22:02 IST
Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on Thursday took the oath of office and secrecy at the grand swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday evening. Along with PM
Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on Thursday took the oath of office and secrecy at the grand swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday evening.
Along with PM Modi, the Union Council of Ministers also took the oath, which was administered by President Ram Nath Kovind. A total of 25 cabinet ministers and 24 Ministers of state and 9 with independent charge took oath.
Narendra Modi takes oath as the Prime Minister of India for a second term.#ModiSwearingIn#ModiSarkar2 pic.twitter.com/YedjLelcQt
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A total of fifty-eight ministers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been sworn-in, with Amit Shah making an entry into the Cabinet. Among other notable politicians sworn-in as part of the Cabinet are Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Ravi Shankar Prasad and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar.
BJP MP Rajnath Singh takes oath as Union Minister.#ModiSarkar2 pic.twitter.com/7P8bQRMjjz
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BJP Chief Amit Shah takes oath, joins union cabinet for the first time.#ModiSarkar2 pic.twitter.com/UbiO1LkfrZ
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Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman takes oath as Union Ministers.
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#ModiSarkar2 | Former Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar takes oath as Union Minister.
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Kiren Rijiju took oath as a Minister in PM Modi’s Cabinet. Dibrugarh MP Rameswar Teli was also sworn-in as a Minister of State.
Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju ) takes oath as a Minister in PM Modi’s Cabinet .#ModiSarkar2 #ModiSwearingIn pic.twitter.com/KGCubukYGk
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Among those who are not part of the Council are Sushma Swaraj, Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.
Leaders of BIMSTEC group – Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan – have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of PM Narendra Modi today. Along with them, India has also invited leaders of Mauritius and Kyrgyz Republic for the important occasion.
Here is the list of Ministers who took oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan:
Cabinet Ministers
- Shri Narendra Modi
- Shri Raj Nath Singh
- Shri Amit Shah
- Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda
- Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
- Shri Ramvilas Paswan
- Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
- Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot
- Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
- Shri Arjun Munda
- Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani
- Dr. Harsh Vardhan
- Shri Prakash Javadekar
- Shri Piyush Goyal
- Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
- Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Shri Pralhad Joshi
- Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
- Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant
- Shri Giriraj Singh
- Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
- Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
- Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Shri Kiren Rijiju
- Shri Prahalad Singh Patel
- Shri Raj Kumar Singh
- Shri Hardeep Singh Puri
- Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Ministers of State
- Shri Faggansingh Kulaste
- Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal
- General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
- Shri Krishan Pal
- Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
- Shri G. Kishan Reddy
- Shri Parshottam Rupala
- Shri Ramdas Athawale
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Shri Babul Supriyo
- Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
- Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
- Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
- Shri Nityanand Rai
- Shri. Rattan Lal Kataria
- Shri V. Muraleedharan
- Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta
- Shri Som Parkash
- Shri Rameswar Teli
- Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi
- Shri Kailash Choudhary
- Smt. Debasree Chaudhuri
Over 8,000 guests including VVIPs, attended the oath-taking ceremony of PM Modi and his council of Ministers held at the forecourt – the stately path between the main gates and the main building in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, chief ministers of BJP and NDA-ruled States including Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and NEDA convener Himanta Biswa Sarma, newly-elected BJP MPs and other eminent personalities were also present in the swearing-in ceremony.
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