Modi swearing-in ceremony Live: 24 Cabinet ministers, 22 MoS join PM in NDA 2.0

Rameswar Teli, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Kailash Choudhary and Debashree Choudhary were the last ministers to get sworn in.

Anurag Thakur, Suresh Angadi, Nityanand Rai get sworn in as Ministers of State

Sanjiv Balyan, Babul Supriyo take oath as ministers of state in Modi's new Cabinet.

Ramdas Athawale, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti take oath as ministers of state in Modi Cabinet. 

Krishan Pal, Raosaheb Danve, G Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala take oath as ministers of state in Modi govt.

Arjun Ram Meghwal, VK Singh take oath as ministers of state in Modi Cabinet. 

Faggan Singh Kulaste, Ashwini Kumar Choubey take oath as ministers in Modi Cabinet. 

Mansukh Mandaviya takes oath as minister with Independent charge.

RK Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri have been sworn in as ministers. 

Kiren Rijiju, Prahlad Patel have been sworn in as ministers with Independent charge. 

Swearing-in ceremony continues. Shripad Naik and Jitendra Singh take oath as ministers with Independent charge. 

Santosh Gangwar takes oath as a minister with Independent charge. 

Giriraj Singh, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat have taken oath as ministers in the new Modi Cabinet. 

Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant is now taking oath as a minister in the Modi Cabinet. 

Prahlad Joshi, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Mahendra Nath Pandey have taken oath as ministers in the new Modi Cabinet. 

Dharmendra Pradhan is now taking oath as a minister in the new Modi Cabinet. 

Piyush Goyal taking oath as a Cabinet minister in new Modi government. 

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Arjun Munda, Prakash Javadekar take oath as Union Ministers.

Smriti Irani, Dr Harshvardhan too take oath as Cabinet Ministers in new Modi Cabinet

Narender Tomar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Thawarchand Gehlot, S Jaishankar take oath as ministers in Modi Cabinet. 

LJP'S Ram Vilas Paswan is now taking oath as minister in new Modi Cabinet.

Nirmala Sitharaman takes oath as a Cabinet minister in the new Modi govt.

Sadanand Gowda takes oath as a minister in the new Modi Cabinet. 

Next up is Nitin Gadkari. He is taking oath as a minister in the new Modi govt. 

Amit Shah takes oath as minister in the new Modi Cabinet. 

Rajnath Singh takes oath after Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of India. 

President Ram Nath Kovind will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers. 

Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. He is greeting the dignitaries. 

Modi swearing-in ceremony Live: PM arrives at Rashtrapati Bhawan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cavalcade is heading to Rashtrapati Bhawan, he will be there in a few minutes.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says that his Janata Dal-United would not be part of the Narendra Modi government. He called the BJP's offer of participation in the Modi-led ministry "symbolic representation."

Big news coming in! Sushma Swaraj will not be part of the new Modi Cabinet.

Sushma Swaraj has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. She was not present at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tea party this afternoon. 

Sonia and Rahul Gandhi have arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is accompanying them. 

Rajinikanth has arrived for PM Modi's swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. 

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has arrived at Rashtrapati Bhawan. 

Modi swearing-in ceremony Live: Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar likely to be part of Modi Cabinet. He is sitting in the front row. 

Rajnath Singh, who has been serving as the Home Minister of India, has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. The suspense remains on what portfolio will Singh be given in Modi's new Cabinet. 

Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at the Rashtrapati Bhawan to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Sitharaman will take oath as a minister in Modi's new Cabinet. 

Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani have arrived for the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Nitish Kumar's JDU will not be part of the Modi 2.0 Cabinet. 

India TV Editor-In-Chief and Chairman Rajat Sharma and Managing Director Ritu Dhawan reach Rashtrapati Bhawan to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony. 

Ram Vilas Paswan has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. He is set to be sworn in as a minister in Modi 2.0

Amit Shah has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony. 

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Sushma Swaraj has skipped the tea party where Narendra Modi met his ministers. He will be sworn in as the Prime Minister for a second term today.

Modi swearing-in ceremony Live: Ratan Tata, Narayanmurthy have arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony. 

Ratan Tata has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi.

Ahead of attending Narendra Modi's swearing in as Prime Minister, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence here.

Gandhi's meeting came after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal-S leader H.D. Kumaraswamy called on the Congress leader asking him not to quit as party President following its debacle in the Lok Sabha elections.

According to party sources, several Congress leaders had met Manmohan Singh in the last few days after Rahul Gandhi offered to step down from the post.

PM Modi to hold bilateral meeting with Kyrgyzstan President at 10:15 PM tonight right after swearing in.

A week after the Lok Sabha results pinned the Congress down to its worst performance in Uttar Pradesh, the party will take stock of the situation and discuss reasons or its poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections.

A meeting of party office bearers will be held later in the evening in which UPCC President Raj Babbar will be present.

This is Babbar's first visit to Lucknow after he sent his resignation to Congress President Rahul Gandhi last week, owning moral responsibility for the drubbing.

Rahul Gandhi lost his Amethi seat to BJP's Smriti Irani while Raj Babbar lost to BJP's Rajkumar Chahar from Fatehpur Sikri.

The Congress won only one seat in Uttar Pradesh - Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli.

The Congress, which had contested 67 of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, managed to rank at the second position only in three seats: Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, Raj Babbar in Fatehpur Sikri and Shri Prakash Jaiswal in Kanpur. 

After the Congress, another ally of the RJD-led Grand Alliance, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) chief and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday targeted Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav, saying the latter is the leader of RJD, not of the Grand Alliance.

A week after the RJD-led opposition's rout in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, Manjhi has made it clear here that, at this juncture, the leader of the Grand Alliance for the 2020 Bihar Assembly polls has not been not finalised.

"Tejashwi is leader of RJD but he is not the leader of the Grand Alliance", he said.

Manjhi said the Grand Alliance allies, including, Congress, RJD, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP), HAM and the Vikassheel Insan Party (VIP) would sit together to decide about the leader of the Grand Alliance.

Referring to the Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) decision, taken at its poll debacle review meeting on Wednesday to name of Tejashwi Yadav as the Grand Alliance leader, Manjhi said such a decision could only be taken by the Grand Alliance, not the RJD.

Amid a leadership crisis in the Congress, senior leader Mallikarjuna Kharge on Thursday met party Treasurer Ahmed Patel at the party office.

Kharge, who lost in the 2019 general elections from the Gulbarga Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka, arrived at the party office for the meeting with Patel, who is a close aide of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

It is learned that senior leaders have been meeting Congress veterans in a bid to persuade party President Rahul Gandhi to take back his offer to step down, which he made on Saturday during a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

However, the offer was unanimously rejected by the CWC members.

Many senior leaders have also met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the last few days.

On Wednesday, Delhi Congress chief and former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit protested outside Gandhi's residence demanding that he take back his resignation offer.

Anupam Kher to attend PM Modi's oath ceremony today.

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday accused the BJP of trying to dismantle the opposition parties governments in West Bengal, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.

Gehlot tweeted: "Even before the swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government, they are trying to disturb and dismantle the state governments of the opposition parties including West Bengal, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh."

Gehlot, however, extended his wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is set to swear-in later in the day for his second term in office. 

Former Union Minister of State for AYUSH and North Goa MP Shripad Naik will be inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet later on Thursday, informed sources said.

Naik, who won the North Goa Lok Sabha seat defeating his nearest Congress rival Girish Chodankar by 80,247 votes, had also served as a Union Minister of State in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government.

"Shripad Naik has received a call from the Prime Minister's Office informing him about the appointment," the sources said, adding that Naik had also been sounded out about the likely portfolio.

Naik, a five-term MP, has never been appointed a full-fledged cabinet minister.

State BJP General Secretary Narendra Sawaikar has congratulated Shripad Naik on his selection.

In the previous Modi regime, Naik served first as Union Minister of State for Tourism, but in a subsequent reshuffle was made Union Minister of State with Independent Charge of the newly formed AYUSH Ministry.

Former Karnataka CM and Congress leader Siddaramaiah: The result of this Lok Sabha elections will not have an impact on this govt. All our MLAs & ministers are united. Ramesh Jarkiholi will not leave the party

A week after the Lok Sabha results pinned the Congress down to its worst performance in Uttar Pradesh, the party will take stock of the situation and discuss reasons for its poor show.

The Congress which had contested 67 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh managed to win only the Rae Bareli seat from where UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was re-elected. The party rank second only in three seats -- Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, Raj Babbar in Fatehpur Sikri and Shri Prakash Jaiswal in Kanpur. While in the remaining seats, the Congress candidates went to the third position or below.

A meeting of party office bearers will be held later in the evening in which Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) President Raj Babbar will be present.

Even as other political parties have gone into a huddle, dissecting their failure in the Lok Sabha elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) refuses to introspect on the issue.

Immediately after the Lok Sabha results were announced, BSP President Mayawati issued a statement blaming the EVMs for the poor performance of opposition parties.

Later, she held a meeting with her 10 newly elected MPs in Delhi in which she has given them basic directives about their role in Parliament.

She reportedly told them that their stand on various issues would be conveyed to them on a daily basis and they should act accordingly.

Party sources said that since the BSP had won 10 seats, compared to zero in 2014, and the party had also improved its vote percentage, Mayawati did not find any reason for introspection.

She has even refused to react to reports of Dalits being beaten up at several places, including Mainpuri, by Samajwadi Party workers who believe the BSP vote was not transferred to their candidates.

Mayawati has also been maintaining a studied silence on the future of the SP-BSP alliance.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi congratulates YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on taking oath as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

BJP leaders Piyush Goyal and Bhupender Yadav at party president Amit Shah's residence in Delhi.

BJP leaders at Amit Shah's residence in Delhi

Here is a list of ministers who have received a call on getting a ministerial post in Modi govt

DV Sadananda Gowda

RK Singh

Nityanand Rai

Babul Supriyo 

Prahlad Singh Patel

Suresh Angadi

Ramvilas Paswan

Parshottam Rupala

G Kishan Reddy

Piyush Goyal

Smriti Irani

Nirmala Sitharaman

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Nitin Gadkari

Ramdas Athawale

Jitendra Singh

Nityanand Rai

Kailash Choudhary

Thawar Chand Gehlot

Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Giriraj Singh

Santosh Gangwar

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Ramchandra Prasad Singh

Krishan Pal Gurjar

Dharmendra Pradhan

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Ramesh Pokhriyal

The ministers who will take oath this evening will meet PM Narendra Modi at 4:30 PM today.

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy takes oath as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, in Vijayawada

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy takes oath as Andhra Pradesh CM 

Ministers taking the oath will meet Prime Minister Modi at 4:30 pm at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, say PMO sources.

Delhi Police has put in place traffic restrictions around the Rajpath-Vijay Chowk area in the evening.

President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, arrives in Delhi.

He will attend PM Narendra Modi's oath ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan later today.

President of Sri Lanka arrives in Delhi

Assam Congress Committee passes resolution requesting Rahul Gandhi to continue as the president of the Congress party. 

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to not attend PM Narendra Modi's oath ceremony today.

Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal chief minister, opted out of the ceremony after reports claimed that the BJP has invited families of those killed in political violence in Bengal. Sharing her statement on Twitter, Mamata said, "The oath-taking ceremony is an august occasion to celebrate democracy, not one that should be devalued by any political party."

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Singh Bhaghel and Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh cited prior engagements as the reason for not attening the event.

A special gallery called "Kashi Sankul" is being set up at the Rashtrapati Bhawan to accommodate the 250 special guests who have been invited from here in Uttar Pradesh to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister on Thursday.

According to Dharmendra Singh, vice president of BJP's Kashi region, "We received the final list of invitees and invitation for each guest from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Wednesday. Then we started coordinating with the invitees to ensure that all of them get invitation timely. Special coaches were attached to the Shivganga Express and Manduadih-New Delhi Express with the help of Railway Ministry."

Party office-bearers swung into action and formed coordination teams to contact each guest to communicate the arrangements made for them. Majority of the guests left Varanasi on Wednesday night.

Another group is taking flights to Delhi on Thursday.

BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday reached the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours ahead of the formation of the new government and swearing-in ceremony.

This is the third round of meeting between the top two leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last three days.

During the meeting, Modi and Shah are likely to give a final shape to the list of MPs who will take oath of office and secrecy along with Modi.

Modi and Shah had earlier held deliberations on Tuesday and Wednesday on the formulation of the new government.

From Shiv Sena, one leader will take oath as a minister. Uddhav ji has given Arvind Sawant's name, he will take oath as a minister: Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena: 

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari reacts to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee not attending PM Modi's oath ceremony today, says, "she should not come, she is afraid to step in between people after the incidents of violence in Bengal."

The stage is set for swearing-in of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.

Elaborate arrangements have been made at the Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium in Vijayawada, where Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan will administer oath of office and secrecy to Jagan Reddy at 12.23 p.m.

Narasimhan, who is the Governor of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, reached Vijayawada on Wednesday. Jagan Reddy called on him at a hotel and informed him of the arrangements made for the swearing-in.

Jagan Reddy, who led his YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) to power with a landslide victory, alone will take oath at the public ceremony.

Jagan, as the 46-year-old is popularly known, is expected to constitute the cabinet on June 7.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and BJP veteran late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He also placed a wreath at the National War Memorial.

The prime minister visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, at around 7.00 am. Later Modi went to Sadaiv Atal, the lotus-shaped memorial of late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Modi and his council of ministers will take oath at 7.00 pm Thursday evening at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

I am excited to take part in PM Modi's oath ceremony. A number of youngsters have been elected this time, they will bring with them a new vision: Navneet Kaur Rana, Member of Parliament from Amravati, Maharashtra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute at the National War Memorial in Delhi.

PM Modi pays tribute to martyrs

Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah pay tribute at Sadaiv Atal Samadhi, the memorial of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

PM Narendra Modi with Amit Shah

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat. 

Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to Mahatama Gandhi at Rajghat. 

PM Modi pays tribute to Mahatama Gandhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay tribute to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Delhi, ahead of his swearing-in ceremony as the Prime Minister today. 

Capping a landslide election victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take oath along with a new council of ministers on Thursday for a second term, as suspense mounted on who will get the Big Four berths--Home, Finance, Defence and External Affairs.

Top opposition leaders including Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, corporate honchos, film stars, chief ministers and a galaxy of leaders from BIMSTEC countries will be on hand to watch President Ram Nath Kovind administer the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year-old Modi and his ministerial colleagues at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan.