Narendra Modi was on Thursday sworn in as the Prime Minister for a second term helming a 58-member ministry with BJP chief Amit Shah making his debut at the Centre and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar emerging as a surprise pick while party veteran Sushma Swaraj was among the outgoing ministers who found no place.
Wearing a beige Nehru jacket, Modi, 68, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony just before sunset at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan, capping a landslide win for the BJP which won 303 of the 542 seats.
Besides 25 Cabinet ministers including Modi, Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal and Jaishankar, nine were sworn in as Minister of State with Independent charge and another 24 as Minister of State.
The swearing-in ceremony was a grand affair with more than 6,000 guests, including leaders from the BIMSTEC countries, opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, chief ministers, corporate honchos and film stars in attendance as President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year-old Modi and his ministerial colleagues.
Here is the list of ministers in the new Union Cabinet -- in order of them taking oath
Union Ministers
- Narendra Modi
- Rajnath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Gadkari
- D V Sadanand Gowda
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Narendra Singh Tomar
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Thaawar Chand Gehlot
- S Jaishankar
- Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
- Arjun Munda
- Smriti Irani
- Dr Harsh Vardhan
- Prakash Javadekar
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Pralhad Joshi
- Mahendra Nath Pandey
- Arvind Sawant
- Giriraj Singh
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Minister of State with Independent Charge
- Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Shripad Naik
- Jitendra Singh
- Kiren Rijiju
- Prahlad Singh Patel
- R K Singh
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Minister of State
- Faggan Singh Kulaste
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- V K Singh
- Krishan Pal
- Raosaheb Danve
- G Kishan Reddy
- Parshottam Rupala
- Ramdas Athawale
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Babul Supriyo
- Sanjeev Balyan
- Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
- Anurag Thakur
- Suresh Angadi
- Nityanand Rai
- Rattan Lal Kataria
- V. Muraleedharan
- Renuka Singh Surguja
- Som Parkash
- Rameswar Teli
- Pratap Chandra Sarangi
- Kailash Choudhary
- Debashree Choudhary
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