New Delhi: Narendra Modi is sworn in as the Prime Minister of India for a rare third consecutive term Sunday along with his council of ministers in a grand ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath-taking of the PM along with his new cabinet ministers.
The oath-taking ceremony witnessed 11 non-BJP NDA MPs today. They include HD Kumaraswamy of the JD(S), Rajiv Ranjan Singh of the JD(U), Chirag Paswan of the LJP (Ram Vilas), Jitan Ram Manjhi of HAM and Jayant Chaudhary of the RLD among others.
Modi 3.0 consists of six former CMs in the Union Cabinet. This list includes Shivraj Singh Chouhan (MP), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), Rajnath Singh (UP), Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam), HD Kumaraswamy (Karnataka) and Jitan Ram Manjhi (Bihar).
Here is the list of ministers who took oath as well as the PM:
- Rajnath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Gadkari
- JP Nadda
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- S Jaishankar
- Manohar Lal Khattar
- HD Kumaraswamy
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Jitan Ram Manjhi
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh
- Sarbananda Sonowal
- Dr Virendra Kumar
- Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu
- Pralhad Joshi
- Jual Oram
- Giriraj Singh
- Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Bhupender Yadav
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Annapurna Devi
- Kiren Rijiju
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh Mandaviya
- G Kishan Reddy
- Chirag Paswan
- CR Patil
Ministers of State With Independent Charge:
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Jitendra Singh
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
- Jayant Chaudhary
Minister of State (MoS)
- Jitin Prasada
- Shripad Naik
- Pankaj Chaudhary
- Krishan Pal Gurjar
- Ramdas Athawale
- Ram Nath Thakur
- Nityanand Rai
- Anupriya Patel
- V Somanna
- Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
- SP Singh Baghel
- Shobha Karandlaje
- Kirti Vardhan Singh
- BL Verma
- Shantanu Thakur
- Suresh Gopi
- L Murugan
- Ajay Tamta
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar
- Kamlesh Paswan
- Bhagirath Chaudhary
- Satish Chandra Dubey
- Sanjay Seth
- Ravneet Singh Bittu
- Durga Das Uikey
- Raksha Khadse
- Sukanta Majumdar
- Savitri Thakur
- Tokhan Sahu
- Rajbhushan Chaudhary
- Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma
- Harsh Malhotra
- Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
- Murlidhar Mohol
- George Kurian
- Pabitra Margherita
Today, a total of 72 ministers are being sworn in, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Of these, 61 are BJP ministers and 11 belong to NDA partners. The ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan includes the oath-taking of 30 Cabinet rank ministers, 36 Ministers of State, and 5 Ministers of State with Independent charge.
Notably, leaders from India’s neighbouring countries and the Indian Ocean Region, such as Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, attended the event.
