The third straight term of Narendra Modi as prime minister has been sworn in. At a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan, President Droupadi Murmu gave Mr. Modi and the members of the new Council of Ministers the Oath of Office and Secrecy. 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.
As Ministers of State (Independent Charge), BJP leaders Rao Inderjit Singh, Dr. Jitendra Singh, and Arjun Ram Meghwal took an oath of office with Shiv Sena leader Prataprao Jadhav and RLD Chief Jayant Chaudhary.
Amidst the inauguration, thirty-six Ministers of State also took an oath of office. They consist of Jitin Prasad, Pankaj Chaudhary, Nityanad Rai, Krishan Pal, V Somanna, S P Singh Baghel, Shobha Karandlaje, Suresh Gopi, and Jitin Prasad, who are MPs for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Among them were RPI’s Ramdas Athawale, Ramanth Thakur of JD(U), Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal(S), Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Ajya Tamta, Kamlesh Paswan, Harsh Malhotra, Satish Dubey, and Ravneet Sing Bittu.