LIVE | Modi sworn in as PM for 3rd term; 5 allies get a Cabinet berth each
Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar take oath as Cabinet ministers
Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister on Sunday (June 9) for a record-equalling third term, heading a Cabinet that emphasised continuity and experience while also rewarding partners in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government.
Along with Modi, senior BJP leaders including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar, all ministers in the Modi 2.0 Cabinet, took oath as Cabinet ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of secrecy and office to Modi and 30 Cabinet ministers.
Dressed in a white kurta and churidar with a blue chequered jacket, Modi, 73, took the oath in the name of God. He became only the second prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to secure a third consecutive term.
NDA allies
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the BJP failed to win a simple majority, making it dependent on allies whose MPs also took the oath of office as Cabinet ministers – JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy, HAM (Secular) chief Jitan Ram Manjhi, JD(U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh 'Lalan', TDP's K Ram Mohan Naidu and LJP-RV leader Chirag Paswan. Each of these five allies got one Cabinet berth each.
BJP president JP Nadda returned to the Cabinet after five years, while former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and ex-Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar were the fresh faces in the Modi cabinet.
BJP leaders Piyush Goyal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Dharmendra Pradhan and Bhupender Yadav, who were earlier in the Rajya Sabha but have now been elected to the Lok Sabha, were among those retained as ministers.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Cabinet: 1. Rajnath Singh 2. Amit Shah 3. Nitin Gadkari 4. J P Nadda 5. Shivraj Singh Chouhan 6. Nirmala Sitharaman 7. S Jaishankar 8. ML Khattar 9. HD Kumaraswamy 10. Piyush Goyal 11. Dharmendra Pradhan 12. Jitan Ram Manjhi 13. Rajiv Ranjan Singh 14. Sarbananda Sonowal 15. Virendra Kumar 16. K Ram Mohan Naidu 17. Pralhad Joshi 18. Jual Oram 19. Giriraj Singh 20. Ashwini Vaishnaw 21. Jyotiraditya Scindia 22. Bhupender Yadav 23. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat 24. Annapurna Devi 25. Kiren Rijiju 26. Hardeep Singh Puri 27. Mansukh Mandaviya 28. G Kishan Reddy 29. Chirag Paswan 30. CR Paatil
Ministers of State (Independent charge) 1. Rao Inderjit Singh 2. Jitendra Singh 3. Arjun Ram Meghwal 4. Prataprao Jadhav 5. Jayant Chaudhary Ministers of State 1. Jitin Prasada 2. Shripad Naik 3. Pankaj Chaudhary 4. Krishan Pal Gurjar 5. Ramdas Athawale 6. Ram Nath Thakur 7. Nityanand Rai 8. Anupriya Parel 9. V Sommana 10. Pemmasani Chandrasekhar 11. SP Singh Baghel 12. Shobha Karandlaje 13. Kirthi Vardhan Singh 14. B L Varma 15. Shantanu Thakur 16. Suresh Gopi 17. L Murugan 18. Ajay Tamta 19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar 20. Kamlesh Paswan 21. Bhagirath Choudhary 22. Satish Dubey 23. Sanjay Seth 24. Ravneet Singh Bittu 25. Durga Das Uikey 26. Raksha Khadse 27. Sukanta Majumdar 28. Savitri Thakur 29. Tokhan Sahu 30. Rajbhushan Chaudhary 31. Bupathi Raju Srinivas Varma 32. Harsh Malhotra 33. Nimuben Bhamaria 34. Murlidhar Mohol 35. George Kurian 36. Pabitra Margherita
he first meeting of the third Narendra Modi cabinet is likely to be held on Monday evening at the Prime Minister's Lok Kalyan Marg residence, PTI has reported.
The newly inducted ministers would meet at Modi's residence at 5 pm. BJP president J P Nadda also hosted a dinner for those inducted in the new Modi government's council of ministers.
Raksha Nikhil Khadse is the youngest minister at 37 while Jitan Ram Manjhi at 79 is the oldest minister to be sworn in.
Khadse, an MP from Maharashtra, was sworn in as minister of state (MoS) in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Council of Ministers. She won the Raver Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra.
Manjhi (79) was sworn in as a Union Cabinet Minister in Modi 3.0 government.
Manjhi has served as the 23rd Chief Minister of Bihar, and is the founding president of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Previously, he had served as the minister for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare in Nitish Kumar's Cabinet. He won the Gaya seat in 2024 general elections.
Some of the other young ministers include Chirag Paswan and Jayant Choudhary.
George Kurian, Kerala BJP leader, sworn in as Minister of State. Read more about him here.
Jailed radical Sikh preacher and MP-elect Amritpal Singh will write to the Punjab government, seeking a temporary release from the detention in a jail in Assam to take oath as the member of parliament, his counsel Imaan Singh Khara said on Sunday.
"In a day or so, he will write to seek temporary release under Section 15 of the National Security Act that deals with the temporary release from detention," he said.
Amritpal, the chief of the 'Waris Punjab De' outfit, is currently lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail along with nine associates under the NSA.
Having fought the 2024 Lok Sabha electoral battle as an Independent, he won from the Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat after he defeated Congress candidate Kulbir Singh Zira.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday congratulated Narendra Modi on assuming the office of prime minister and expressed hope that the latter would live up to people's expectations.
He expressed optimism that Himachal Pradesh would get substantial financial support from the Union government for the development initiatives in the state during his stint as the prime minister, a statement said.
The chief minister also congratulated BJP leader Jagat Prakash Nadda, who hails from the Bilapsur district of Himachal Pradesh, on his induction in the Modi Cabinet. Sukhu said Nadda is well-acquainted with the state's topography and expressed hope he would address the developmental demands and needs of the people of the state.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday congratulated Narendra Modi on assuming the office of prime minister and expressed hope that the latter would live up to people's expectations.
He expressed optimism that Himachal Pradesh would get substantial financial support from the Union government for the development initiatives in the state during his stint as the prime minister, a statement said.
The chief minister also congratulated BJP leader Jagat Prakash Nadda, who hails from the Bilapsur district of Himachal Pradesh, on his induction in the Modi Cabinet. Sukhu said Nadda is well-acquainted with the state's topography and expressed hope he would address the developmental demands and needs of the people of the state.
TDP MP Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani with an asset of Rs 5700 crore has become the richest minister to join the council of ministers in the 18th Lok Sabha.
Pemmasani, sworn in as a minister of state on Sunday, was also the richest candidate to contest the Lok Sabha polls. He declared the highest asset among all 8390 candidates at Rs 5705 crore.
Among the ministers with Cabinet rank, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia has the highest asset at Rs 484 crore. He has the sixth highest assets among the winning Lok Sabha MPs.
Pemmasani and Scindia were the only two to be sworn in as ministers among the top 10 richest winners in the Lok Sabha polls.