Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes oath for the historic third term
New Delhi : Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi on Sunday took oath for third consecutive term as Prime Minister of India, along with 72 ministers at Rashtrapati Bhawan. With this he has become the first PM after Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru to win three straight terms.
It must be noted that this is the first time when PM Narendra Modi will be leading India with power-sharing government as Bharatiya Janata Party failed to fetch majority seats this time.
Tagged as Modi 3.0 team, there will be 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 36 Ministers of State. The portfolios will be announced later.
On Sunday, President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
BJP chief JP Nadda, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, six-time Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, BJP Gujarat unit chief CR Patil were among the new entrants in PM Modi’s Cabinet. Jitin Prasada, a Cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, was sworn in as a Minister of State along with former Karnataka minister V Somanna.
Returning faces in Modi 3.0 Cabinet include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, S Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Pralhad Joshi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Kiren Rijiju, Dharmendra Pradhan, Sarbananda Sonowal, Bhupender Yadav, Giriraj Singh, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, G Kishan Reddy among others.
As many as 8,000 guests, including leaders from neighbouring countries and the Indian Ocean Region, like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles, attended the oath-taking ceremony.
