57 ministers sworn in as PM Modi begins second term
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his oath of office on Thursday along with his ministers, including for the first time the powerful chief of his ruling BJP party, Amit Shah, that just won a landslide victory in a general election.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-05-30 16:43 GMT
New Delhi
Narendra Modi was on Thursday sworn in as country's Prime Minister for a second term, heading the National Democratic Alliance government in the presence of a large gathering of national and international dignitaries.
Modi, 68, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony at the forecourt of majestic Rashtraparti Bhavan.
The other top leaders who were sworn-in as Union ministers included BJP president Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman and Ram Vilas Paswan.
While Modi, Singh, Shah, Gadkari, Paswan took oath of office in Hindi, Gowda and Sitharaman took it in English.
Some of the key ministers in the previous Modi government, including Sushma Swaraj, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Maneka Gandhi were not part of the new dispensation.
Full list of the new council of ministers
- Amit Shah
- Rajnath Singh
- Nitin Gadkari
- Sadananda Gowda
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Ramvilas Paswan
- Narendra Singh Tomar
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal
- Thawar Chand Gehlot
- Arjun Munda
- Smriti Irani
- Harsh Vardhan
- Prakash Javadekar
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Prahlad Joshi
- Mahendra Nath Pandey
- Arvind Sawant
- Giriraj Singh
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Rao Inderjit
- Shripad Yesso Nayak
- Jitendra Singh
- Kiren Rijju
- Prahlad Singh Patel
- RK Singh
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh Mandaviya
- Faggan Singh Kulaste
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- VK Singh
- Kishan Pal Gujjar
- Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
- Kishan Reddy
- Purushottam Rupala
- Ramdas Athawale
- Niranjan Jyoti
- Babul Supriyo
- Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
- Anurag Singh Thakur
- Suresh Angadi
- Nityanand Rai
- V Muraleedharan
- Renuka Singh
- Som Parkash
- Rameswar Teli
- Pratap Chandra Sarangi
- Kailash Choudhary
- Debasree Chaudhuri
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Rattan Lal Kataria
Top opposition leaders including former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, corporate honchos, film stars, chief ministers and a galaxy of leaders from BIMSTEC countries were part of the nearly 8,000 guests at the ceremony.
This is the second time Modi took the oath at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Modi was sworn in by the then President Pranab Mukherjee in 2014 in the presence of over 3,500 guests including the heads of SAARC countries.
Earlier, Chandra Shekhar in 1990 and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999 were sworn in at the sprawling forecourt.
Leaders of BIMSTEC countries including President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, President of Myanmar U Win Myint and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering also attended the gala event.
From Thailand, its Special Envoy Grisada Boonrach represented the country.
Besides India, BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) comprises Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan as members.
Kyrgyz President and current chair of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, and Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth also attended the event.
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