New Delhi: Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India's Prime Minister for a third term in a grand ceremony at the presidential palace in Delhi on Sunday, June 9, 2024.
Modi's BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won the general election with 293 seats. Modi, 73, is only the second Indian leader to win a third consecutive term after the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. On Friday, the elected MPs voted Modi as the leader of the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the parliament), leader of the BJP parliamentary party, and leader of the NDA.
Thousands of guests attended his inauguration at Delhi's presidential palace. Among them were the heads of neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy to Narendra Modi. Alongside Modi, the following individuals took the oath as members of the Council of Ministers:
Cabinet Ministers
- Rajnath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Jagat Prakash Nadda
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Manohar Lal
- H. D. Kumaraswamy
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Jitan Ram Manjhi
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh
- Sarbananda Sonowal
- Virendra Kumar
- Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu
- Pralhad Joshi
- Jual Oram
- Giriraj Singh
- Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
- Bhupender Yadav
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Annpurna Devi
- Kiren Rijiju
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh Mandaviya
- G. Kishan Reddy
- Chirag Paswan
- C R Patil
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Jitendra Singh
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao
- Jayant Chaudhary
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Ministers of State
- Jitin Prasada
- Shripad Yesso Naik
- Pankaj Chaudhary
- Krishan Pal
- Ramdas Athawale
- Ram Nath Thakur
- Nityanand Rai
- Anupriya Patel
- V. Somanna
- Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
- S. P. Singh Baghel
- Sobha Karandlaje
- Kirtivardhan Singh
- B. L. Verma
- Shantanu Thakur
- Suresh Gopi
- L. Murugan
- Ajay Tamta
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar
- Kamlesh Paswan
- Bhagirath Choudhary
- Satish Chandra Dubey
- Sanjay Seth
- Ravneet Singh
- Durgadas Uikey
- Raksha Nikhil Khadse
- Sukanta Majumdar
- Savitri Thakur
- Tokhan Sahu
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary
- Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
- Harsh Malhotra
- Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
- Murlidhar Mohol
- George Kurian
- Pabitra Margherita
The President administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy to the above Members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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