NEW DELHI: As Narendra Modi took oath as 15th Prime Minister of India along with his new Cabinet in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, as many as 20 members who took the oath are first-time ministers.
Among the prominent ones to take the oath were Anurag Thakur, Shiv Sena’s Arvind Sawant and S Jaishankar, who served as Foreign Secretary in the first Modi ministry.
Here’s a list of the full first-time ministers in the second term of the Modi government:
Cabinet Ministers
1. S Jaishankar
2. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
3. Arjun Munda
4. Pralhad Joshi
5. Arvind Sawant
Ministers of State
1. Prahalad Singh Patel
2. G. Kishan Reddy
3. Anurag Thakur
4. Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
5. Debasree Chaudhuri
6. Kailash Choudhary
7. Pratap Chandra Sarangi
8. Rameswar Teli
9. Nityanand Rai
10. Rattan Lal Kataria
11. V. Muraleedharan
12. Renuka Singh Saruta
13. Som Parkash
14. Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)< 1. Prahalad Singh Patel BJP leaders including
Amit Shah
Nitin Gadkari
Rajnath Singh
D V Sadananda Gowda
Nirmala Sitharaman
Dharmendra Pradhan
Prakash Javadekar
Ram Vilas Paswan
Narendra Singh Tomar
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Thawarchand Gehlot
S Jaishankar
Ramesh Pokhriyal
Arjun Munda
Dr Harsh Vardhan
Giriraj Singh and Smriti Irani who were a part of the first Modi government, also took oath as Cabinet Ministers.
President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to Modi and ministers at the function which was attended by heads of government and representatives from BIMSTEC countries, besides Prime Minister of Mauritius and President of Kyrgyzstan.
Other Cabinet ministers who took oath on Thursday:
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Prahlad Joshi
Mahendra Nath Pandey
Arvind Sawant
Giriraj Singh
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Rao Inderjit Singh
Shripad Yesso Naik
Dr Jitendra Singh
RK Singh
Kiren Rijiju
Prahlad Singh Patel
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh Mandaviya
Ministers of state
Faggansingh Kulaste
Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Arjun Ram Meghwal
V K Singh
Krishan Pal
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
G Kishan Reddy
Parshottam Rupala
Ramdas Athawale
Niranjan Jyoti
Babul Supriyo
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
Anurag Singh Thakur
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
Nityanand Rai
Rattan Lal Kataria
V Muraleedharan
Renuka Singh Saruta
Som Parkash
Rameswar Teli
Pratap Chandra Sarangi
Kailash Choudhary
Debasree Chaudhuri
Several overseas friends of the party from 15 countries, including the US, Australia, Germany, and the UK, were also invited.
Riding high on the planks of muscular nationalism and anti-Congressism, BJP, which had won 282 seats in 2014, improved its tally by notching up 303 seats.
Along with its NDA allies, the number swelled to 353 in the 543-member Lower House of the Parliament.
With this, Modi became the first Prime Minister outside of Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority since 1971.
With agency inputs