Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has officially taken oath for the record third time at Rashtrapati Bhavan after being elected in a historic term.
The oath was administered by the President of India Droupadi Murmu.
● 72 minister of the new #ModiCabinet to be sworn:
● 61 BJP minister
● 11 ministers from NDA allies
● 30 Cabinet rank
● 36 MoS (5 with Ind Charge)
PM #NarendraModi is now the longest serving government head in India after having served for 13 years as CM of Gujarat & over 10 years as Indian PM.
Know Your Cabinet | Modi 3.0
Union Ministers who took oath on Sunday(09.06.2024)
1) Rajnath Singh (BJP)
2) Amit Shah (BJP)
3) Nitin Gadkari (BJP)
4) JP Nadda (BJP)
5) Shivraj Singh Chohan (BJP)
6) Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP)
7) S Jaishankar (BJP)
8) Manohar Lal Khattar (BJP)
9) Piyush Goyal (BJP)
10) HD Kumaraswamy (Janata Dal-Secular)
11) Jitan Ram Manjhi (Hindustani Awam Morcha)
12) Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP)
13) Rajiv Ranjan Singh aka Lalan Singh (JDU)
14) Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP)
15) Dr Virendra Kumar (BJP)
16) Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP)
17) Pralhad Joshi (BJP)
18) Jual Oram (BJP)
19) Giriraj Singh (BJP)
20) Ashwini Vaishnav (BJP)
21) Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP)
22) Bhupendra Yadav (BJP)
23) Gajendra Shekhawat (BJP)
24) Annapurna Devi (BJP)
25) Kire Rijiju (BJP)
26) Hardeep Puri (BJP)
27) Mansukh Mandaviya (BJP)
28) G Kishan Reddy (BJP)
29) Chirag Paswan (LJP-Ramvilas Paswan)
30) CR Paatil (BJP)
41 Leaders Sworn In as Ministers of State
Rao Inderjit Singh (BJP)
Jitendra Singh (BJP)
Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP)
Prataprao Jadhav (Shiv Sena)
Jayant Chaudhary (RLD)
Jitin Prasada (BJP)
Shripad Naik (BJP)
Pankaj Chaudhary (BJP)
Krishan Pal (BJP)
Ramdas Athawale (RPI)
Ram Nath Thakur (JDU)
Nityanand Rai (BJP)
Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal)
V Somanna (BJP)
Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani (TDP)
SP Singh Baghel (BJP)
Shobha Karandlaje (BJP)
Kirti Vardhan Singh (BJP)
BL Verma (BJP)
Shantanu Thakur (BJP)
Suresh Gopi (BJP)
L Murugan (BJP)
Ajay Tamta (BJP)
Bandi Sanjay Kumar (BJP)
Kamlesh Paswan (BJP)
Bhagirath Choudhary (BJP)
Satish Chandra Dubey (BJP)
Sanjay Seth (BJP)
Ravneet Singh Bittu (BJP)
Durga Das Uikey (BJP)
Raksha Khadse (BJP)
Sukanta Majumdar (BJP)
Savitri Thakur (BJP)
Tokhan Sahu (BJP)
Raj Bhushan Choudhary (BJP)
Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma (BJP)
Harsh Malhotra (BJP)
Nimuben Bambhania (BJP)
Murlidhar Mohol (BJP)
George Kurian (BJP)
Pabitra Margherita (BJP)
Six Former Chief Ministers Sworn In
Among the Union Ministers, six are former chief ministers, namely Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal Khattar, Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajnath Singh, HD Kumaraswamy, and Jitan Ram Manjhi.
While Singh and Sonowal have been a part of the previous Modi Cabinet, it is Chouhan, Khattar, Kumaraswamy, and Manjhi's first stint at the Centre.
Heads of State of 7 countries in Attendance
Heads of state of most neighbouring countries were present at the ceremony,
1) Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina,
2) Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe,
3) Bhutan PM Tshering Togbay,
4) Maldives PM Mohamed Muizzu,
5) Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif,
6) Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth,
7) Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'.
