Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for a second term in the presence of 8,000 guests including world leaders, dignitaries, politicians, celebrities, and industrialists on Thursday evening, exactly a week after he led the BJP to a spectacular victory in the national election. Over 50 ministers joined him in the grand swearing-in ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah, who is credited with leading the party to magnificent victories in election after election, is the most prominent newcomer in PM Modi’s second government. The 54-year-old is likely to handle one of the top four ministries in the cabinet.
Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi with a major mandate in his family constituency of Amethi, was among the minister who took oath yesterday.
It needs to be seen who will be given charge of Finance and Foreign Ministries after the Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj – the two big names- requested to be kept out of the cabinet. Both the leaders did not contest the Lok Sabha elections citing health reasons.
Here is a list of minister’s in PM Modi’s cabinet-
Cabinet Ministers
- Shri Narendra Modi
- Shri Raj Nath Singh
- Shri Amit Shah (first time)
- Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda
- Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
- Shri Ramvilas Paswan
- Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
- Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot
- Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ (first time)
- Shri Arjun Munda
- Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani
- Dr. Harsh Vardhan
- Shri Prakash Javadekar
- Shri Piyush Goyal
- Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
- Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Shri Pralhad Joshi (first time)
- Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
- Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant
- Shri Giriraj Singh
- Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
- Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
- Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Shri Kiren Rijiju
- Shri Prahalad Singh Patel
- Shri Raj Kumar Singh
- Shri Hardeep Singh Puri
- Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Ministers of State
- Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste
- Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal
- General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
- Shri Krishan Pal
- Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
- Shri G. Kishan Reddy
- Shri Parshottam Rupala
- Shri Ramdas Athawale
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Shri Babul Supriyo
- Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
- Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
- Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa (first time)
- Shri Nityanand Rai
- Shri. Rattan Lal Kataria (first time)
- Shri V. Muraleedharan
- Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta
- Shri Som Parkash
- Shri Rameshwar Teli (first time)
- Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi
- Shri Kailash Choudhary (first time)
- Deboshree Choudhury (first time)
The BJP-led NDA returned to power with a massive 352 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP won 303 seats on its own.
