Narendra Modi has been appointed as the Prime Minister of India in the grand swearing-in ceremony that occurred on June 9, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Along with him, 30 cabinet ministers, 36 MoS, and 5 MoS (independent charge) also took oaths from the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies.
This ceremony was held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday and the President Draupadi Murmu administered the oaths of office and secrecy to the newly appointed members of the Council of Ministers.
An official statement reads, “The President of India has appointed Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi as the Prime Minister of India. Further, as advised by the Prime Minister, the President has appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers,”.
The following leaders took oath as Cabinet Ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Raj Nath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Manohar Lal, HD Kumaraswamy, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Pralhad Joshi, Jual Oram, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, Bhupender Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annpurna Devi, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, G Kishan Reddy, Chirag Paswan and C R Patil.
In addition to the list, the following individuals were sworn in as Ministers of State (Independent Charge): Rao Inderjit Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao Jitendra Singh and Jayant Chaudhary.
The new Ministers of State include: Jitin Prasada, Shripad Yesso Naik, Pankaj Chaudhary, Krishan Pal Ramdas AthawaleRam Nath Thakur Nityanand Rai Anupriya Patel V. Somanna, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, SP Singh Baghel, Sushri Sobha Karandlaje, Durgadas Uikey, Raksha Nikhil Khadse, Sukanta Majumdar, Savitri Thakur, Tokhan Sahu, Raj Bhushan Choudhary, Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma, Harsh Malhotra, Kirtivardhan Singh, BL Verma, Shantanu Thakur, Suresh Gopi, L Murugan, Ajay Tamta, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Kamlesh Paswan, Bhagirath Choudhary, Satish Chandra Dubey, Sanjay Seth, Ravneet Singh, Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya, Murlidhar Mohol, George Kurian and Pabitra Margherita.
This swearing-in event was attended by various veteran political leaders, including leaders of the neighborhood and diplomats, industrialists, Bollywood stars, and several other personalities.
The international list includes names such as Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, Seychelles Vice President Ahmed Afif and Bangladesh PM Sheik Hasina.
BJP chief JP Nadda also took oath as union minister which is an indication of the appointment of the party’s new chief.
PM Modi’s ministers’ team has 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State with Independent charge, and 36 Ministers of State. Most MPs took the oath in Hindi while some took it in English.
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won a third term in the results of Lok Sabha polls that were declared on June 4. The BJP-led NDA won 293 seats in the Lok Sabha elections 2024 with BJP achieving a relatively lower 240 seats, as compared to the last term.
In a development, the meeting of the union cabinet is likely to take place on Monday, at around 5 pm.
