Narendra Modi takes oath as Prime Minister of India for the second term. (Photo/@Twitter BJP4India)Narendra Modi Swearing in Ceremony: Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister of India for the second term at the forecourts of Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to him and 57 other members of Council of Ministers in the presence of nearly 8,000 guests, making it the biggest-ever event held at the sprawling campus. The new Modi government has 19 first timers. The new team has 25 Cabinet Ministers, 24 Minister of State and 9 Minister of State with Independent Charge.
Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Ram Vilas Paswan, Sadananda Gowda, Smriti Irani, Narendra Singh Tomar, Ravi Shankar Prasad were among the top leaders who joined Modi Sarkar 2.0.
Heads of BIMSTEC nations, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth were also present for the function. Governors and Chief Ministers of all the states were also invited. Congress president Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh, LK Advani and several other Opposition leaders attended the swearing-in ceremony. Barring CMs of West Bengal (Mamata Banerjee), Kerala (P Vijayan, Odisha (Naveen Patnaik) and Punjab (Amarinder Singh), several CMs were present on the occasion.
Highlights
Barmer MP Kailash Choudhary joins the Modi government as Minister of State. Choudhary defeated Manvendra Singh, son of former Union Minister Jaswant Singh from Barmer seat by over three lakh votes in Lok Sabha election 2019. Deboshree Choudhary, first time MP from Raiganj in West Bengal, also join the Modi government.
Rameshwar Teli, BJP MP from Assam's Dibrugarh, takes oath as minister in the Modi government. Pratap Sarangi, MP from Balasore in Odisha. Sarangi is referred as 'Odisha's Modi' by his followers. Sarangi is the poorest MP in the Modi cabinet.
Renuka Singh Saruta, MP from Chhattisgarh, takes oath as Minister of State. Som Prakash, BJP MP from Hoshiarpur in Punjab and former IAS officer, also joins the Modi government.
Ratanlal Katariya, who defeated Congress leader Kumari Selja from Ambala seat, sworn-in as Minister of State. V Muralidharan, Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra, also joins the new Modi government.
Suresh Angadi, four-time BJP MP from Belgam in Karnataka, takes oath as Minister of State. Nityanand Rai, BJP MP from Ujiarpur, takes oath as Minister of State.
Akola MP Sanjay Dhotre, Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) Anurag Thakur take oath as Minister of State.
Asansol BJP MP Babul Supriyo, takes oath Minister of State in the new Modi government. He defeated Trinamool Congress candidate Moon Moon Sen in the just concluded Lok Sabha election 2019. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Muzaffarnagar BJP MP, joins Team Modi too.
Republican Party of India chief Ramdas Athawale takes oath as Minister of State along with Sadhvi Niranjana Jyoti. She won the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Fatehpur seat in Uttar Pradesh.
G Krishna Reddy, BJP MP from Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency and Parshottam Rupala, who served as Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, take oath as Minister of State.
Faridabad BJP MP Krishnapal Gurjar takes oath along with Raosaheb Danve. BJP MP from Jalna in Maharashtra, take oath as Minister of State.
Arjun Ram Meghwal, BJP MP from Bikaner, takes oath as Minister of State in Modi Government 2.0. General (retired) VK Singh, who served as junior External Affairs Minister in the previous government joins the Modi Cabinet for second term.
Faggan Singh Kulaste, who won the Lok Sabha election from Mandla in Madhya Pradesh, takes oath along with Ashwini Choubey, who represents Buxar seat on the Lower House of Parliament.
Hardeep Singh Puri, who contested Lok Sabha election 2019 from Amritsar but lost, takes oath as Minister of State. He served as Urban Development Minister in the Modi Government 1. Mansukh Mandaviya, who is often spotted riding a bicycle to Parliament, takes oath as Minister of State.
Pralhad Patel, BJP MP from Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, takes oath as minister. Patel, who is a 5-time MP, had served in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government as well. RK Singh, MP from Ara in Bihar, also takes oath Minister of State.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, Udhampur MP, who served as Minister of State in the PMO in the outgoing Modi government, takes oath as minister again. Kiren Rijiju, who served as MoS Home in the previous Modi government, also takes oath.
Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh takes oath as Minister of State. Sripad Nayak, who has represented North Goa constituency continuously from 1999, also takes oath.
Gajendra Singh Sekhawat, who defeated Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot from Jodhpur seat, take oath as Cabinet minister. Santosh Gangwar, who represents Bareli in Lok Sabha, also takes oath.
Shiv Sena MP from South Mumbai Arvind Sawant and Giriraj Singh who defeated former JNU students union leader Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai seat take oath.
Prahlad Joshi, former Karnataka BJP president and BJP's Chandauli MP Mahendra Nath Pandey take oath as ministers. Pandey served as MoS HRD in the previous Modi government.
Dharmendra Pradhan, who is Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh and served as Petroleum minister the outgoing Modi government and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi take oath as Cabinet ministers. Naqvi has served as minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government as well.
Prakash Javadekar, who served as HRD Minister in the previou Modi government and Piyush Goyal, who headed the Power, Coal and Rail ministries, have been inducted in the Cabinet again. Chandni Chowk MP Harshvardhan also takes oath. Portfolios of these ministers will be announced later.
Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi seat by over 55,000 votes, takes oath as Cabinet Minister. Former Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda, who won the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Khunti, also takes oath.
Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi by over 55,000 votes, takes oath as Cabinet minister. Former Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda, who won Lok Sabha election 2019 from Khunti, also sworn-in.
Thawar Chand Gehlot, S Jaishankar, former Foreign Secretary, and former Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank join Team Modi 2.0
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Narendra Singh Tomar, Harsimrat Kaur Badal take oath as ministers. Ravi Shankar Prasad won the Lok Sabha election from Patna Sahib seat defeating Congress candidate Shatrughan Sinha.
Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan and Sadananda Gowda take oath as Cabinet Ministers in the new Modi government. They have served as ministers in the previous Modi government too.
Nitin Gadkari, who served as Highways and Road Transport Minister in the previou Modi goverment, takes oath as Cabinet minister again.
BJP president Amit Shah, who won the Lok Sabha election from Gujarat's Gandhinagar, takes oath as Cabinet minister. Amit Shah is likely to replace Arun Jaitley as Finance Minister
Rajnath Singh, who won the Lok Sabha election from Lucknow, takes oath. Rajnath Singh, who served as Home Minister in the previous Modi government, is likely to continue on the post in the second term of Modi government. READ: Rajnath Singh: Man of all seasons carries Vajpayee's legacy of 'Ajatshatru'
Narendra Modi takes oath as Prime Minister of India.
Dressed in white kurta-paijama and grey jacket, Narendra Modi arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan for oath taking ceremony. "Honoured to serve India," Modi tweeted ahead of taking oath as PM.
Leaders of BIMSTEC nations - Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan - have arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan for Modi's swearing-in ceremony.
Sushma Swaraj has reached Rashtrapati Bhavan. Swaraj, who served as External Affairs Minister in the previous Modi government, won't be part of Modi Sarkar 2.0
Congress president Rahul Gandhi arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan with mother Sonia Gandhi to attend Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony.
Guests and dignitaries continue to arrive for Modi's swearing-in ceremony. Former Prime Minister Narendra Modi, veteran BJP leader LK Advani, Superstar Rajinikanth, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Samajwadi Party leader founder Mulayam Singh Yadav have arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan
While suspense remains over whether Sushma Swaraj will be part of Modi's new cabinet, a few certain names are Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ram Vilas Paswan, Babul Supriyo, RK Singh, Narendra Singh Tomar
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who took oath of office earlier in the day, will not attend Narendra Modi's swearing-in as permission was denied for landing their special aircraft in Delhi.
Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United has said that the party won't be part of the new Modi Cabinet. Th JD-U, which won 16 seats in Bihar, said it will be in the NDA but won't be part of the Modi government. "There are no differences with the BJP. We will continue to strongly support the government but won't be part of the cabinet. Nothing specific should be looked into it," Nitish Kumar told reporters in New Delhi before heading to Rashtrapati Bhavan to attend Modi's oath taking ceremony.
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Guests have started to arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan for Narendra Modi's oath taking as Prime Minister for the second time. President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife have already reached the forecourt where the function will be held. Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata was among the first guests to arrive for the function.