Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister for third consecutive term

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term. President Droupadi Murmu administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy to Mr Modi along with the members of the new Council of Ministers at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan yesterday evening. During the Swearing-in Ceremony, 30 Cabinet Ministers, five Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 36 Ministers of State took oath. Senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Dr S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Nirmala Sitharaman and BJP President J P Nadda took oath as Cabinet Ministers. Senior Party leaders Kiren Rijiu, Pralhad Joshi, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annapurna Devi, Hardeep Singh Puri, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, G Kishen Reddy, C R Patil, Dr Virendra Kumar and Jual Oram also took oath as Cabinet Ministers. Former Chief Ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal and Sarbanand Sonowal were also administered oath as Cabinet Ministers. Besides, former Karnataka Chief Minister and JD(S) MP H.D. Kumaraswamy, former Bihar Chief Minister and HAM party chief Jiten Ram Manjhi, JD(U) MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh, TDP MP Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu and LJP (Ramvilas) Chief Chirag Paswan, were among others who were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers.

BJP leaders Rao Inderjit Singh, Dr Jitendra Singh and Arjun Ram Meghwal as well as Prataprao Jadhav of Shiv Sena and RLD Chief Jayant Chaudhary took oath as Ministers of State (Independent Charge).

During the swearing-in ceremony, 36 Ministers of State also took oath. They include BJP MPs Jitin Prasad, Shripad Yesso Naik, Pankaj Chaudhary, Nityanad Rai, Krishan Pal, V Somanna, S P Singh Baghel, Shobha Karandlaje and Suresh Gopi. Raksha Khadse, Ajya Tamta, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Kamlesh Paswan, Harsh Malhotra, Satish Dubey and Ravneet Sing Bittu as well as RPI’s Ramdas Athawale, Ramanth Thakur of JD(U), Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal(S) and TDP’s Dr. Pemmasani Chandrasekhar.

Several leaders from neighbouring countries and Indian Ocean region attended the swearing-in ceremony. President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Maldives Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay attended the ceremony. Several dignitaries including Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Chief Justice of India Dr D.Y. Chandrachud, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Cheif Ministers of various States were also present on the occasion.