Narendra Modi today took oath as Prime Minister for a record third term, equalling India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of three wins.
Honour guards lined the steps of the Rashtrapati Bhavan where thousands gathered to watch PM Modi, dressed in a white kurta and with blue waistcoat, take the oath.
PM Modi was followed immediately by top BJP aides Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari.
South Asian leaders from neighbouring Bangladesh, the Maldives and Sri Lanka attended the ceremony but neighbouring rivals China and Pakistan had notably not sent top leaders.
Led by the Prime Minister, the new team includes 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge and 36 Ministers of State.
PM Modi’s party, BJP, won 240 seats in this year’s poll, 32 short of a majority in the 543-member lower house. Allies helped him cross the 272-majority mark, with the National Democratic Alliance or NDA notching up 293 seats
Cabinet Ministers who took oath along with 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
- 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
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