Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive term this evening. The new Union Council of Ministers was also administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Dr S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Pralhad Joshi, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annapurna Devi, Rajya Sabha MPs Nirmala Sitharaman and JP Nadda who is serving as BJP chief, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, were among those who took the Oath as Cabinet Ministers. BJP leaders Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, G Kishen Reddy and C R Patil also took 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, former Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal, BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh Dr Virendra Kumar, TDP MP Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, BJP MP from Odisha Jual Oram and LJP (Ramvilas ) Chief Chirag Paswan, were among others who were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers.
