Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday was sworn in as India’s Prime Minister for a third consecutive term. In secrecy by President Droupadi Murmu during a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the 73-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader along with his Council of Ministers was administered the oath of office. The Modi 3.0 cabinet comprises 72 ministers, which includes 30 cabinet Ministers, 5 ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 36 ministers of state.
PM Modi was dressed in a white kurta tunic and a blue half jacket at the oath ceremony. Supporters cheered, clapped, and chanted “Modi, Modi” and congratulated him for his third term.
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Narendra Modi Cabinet 3.0
The senior ministers who took oath after Modi’s swearing-in were Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and Piyush Goyal. Their portfolios are expected to be announced after the ceremony.
The other six former chief ministers are Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Rajnath Singh (Uttar Pradesh), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam), H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka), and Jitan Ram Manjhi (Bihar) also took oath as Union Ministers in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government.
By winning 240 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP emerged as the single-largest party. It is now dependent on the support from regional parties including the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal (United) to run the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre.Â
Top leaders from India’s neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean region including Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Bhutanese PM Tshering Tobgay were among the dignitaries at the oath ceremony.
Ministers of State (Independent Charge):
Rao Inderjit Singh, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Jayant Chaudhary, Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
Ministers of State
1. Jitin Prasada 2. Sripad Yesso Naik 3. Pankaj Chaudhary 4. Krishan Pal 5. Ramdas Athawale 6. Ramnath Thakur 7. Nityananad Rai 8. Anupriya Patel 9. V Somanna 10. Pemmasani Chandrasekhar 11. SP Singh Baghel 12. Shobha Karandlaje 13. Kirti Vardhan Singh 14. B L Verma 15. Shantanu Thakur 16. Suresh Gopi 17. L Murugan 18. Ajay Tamta 19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar 20. Kamlesh Paswan 21. Bhagirath Choudhary 22. Ravneet Singh 23. Satish Dubey 24. Sanjay Seth 25. Durga Das Uikey 26. Raksha Khadse 27. Sukanta Majumdar 28. Savitri Thakur 29. Tokhan Sahu 30. Raj Bhushan Choudhary 31. BRS Verma 32. Harsh Malhotra 33. Nimuben Bambhniya 34. Murlidhar Mohol 35. George Kurian 36. Pabitra Margherita
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