'Blend of youthful energy and experience': Modi takes oath as PM for second term, 57 ministers also sworn in
PM Modi-led BJP stormed into power following a mammoth victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election 2019 bagging 303 seats on its own while NDA in total got 353 seats.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for his second term on Thursday President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy at a ceremony at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Fifty seven ministers were also sworn in at the event.
PM Modi-led BJP stormed to power following a mammoth victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election 2019 bagging 303 seats on its own while NDA in total got 353 seats. In his historic win, PM Modi had thanked people of the country and termed it as a victory for India.
Earlier in 2014, BJP had won 282 seats but in 2019 it improved its tally by notching up 303 seats.
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"Congratulations to all those who took oath today. This team is a blend of youthful energy and administrative experience. It has people who have excelled as Parliamentarians and those who have had distinguished professional careers. Together, we will work for India’s progress," tweets PM Modi
BJP MP from West Bengal's Raiganj Debasree Chaudhuri takes oath as Minister of State
Kailash Choudhary, Lok Sabha MP from Rajasthan's Barmer, takes oath as Minister of State
Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Lok Sabha MP from Odisha's Balasore, takes oath as Minister of State
Rameswar Teli, BJP MP from Assam's Dibrugarh, takes oath as Minister of State
Som Prakash takes oath as Minister of State
Renuka Singh Saruta takes, Lok Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh's Sarguja, takes oath as as Minister of State
V Muraleedharan (Kerala BJP chief) takes oath as Minister of State
Rattan Lal Kataria, Lok Sabha MP from Haryana's Ambala Lok Sabha seat, takes oath as Minister of State
Nityanand Rai, Lok Sabha MP from Bihar's Ujiarpur, takes oath as Minister of State
Suresh Angadi, Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka's Belagavi, takes oath as Minister of State
Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) Lok Sabha MP takes oath as Minister of State
Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, Lok Sabha MP from Akola (Maharashtra), takes oath as Minister of State
Muzaffarnagar MP Sanjeev Balyan takes oath as Minister of State. He defeated RLD chief Ajit Singh in the Lok Sabha election.
Asansol (West Bengal) MP Babul Supriyo takes oath as Minister of State
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, MP from UP's Fatehpur, takes oath as Minister of State
RPI leader Ramdas Athawale takes oath as Minister of State
Parshottam Rupala takes oath as Minister of State
G Kishan Reddy, MP from Secunderabad, Telangana, takes oath as Minister of State
Raosaheb Danve (BJP Maharashtra chief and Jalna MP) takes oath as Minister of State
Faridabad (Haeyana) MP Krishan Pal Gurjar takes oath as Minister of State
General (retd) VK Singh takes oath as Minister of State
Arjun Ram Meghwal takes oath as Minister of State
Ashwini Kumar Choubey takes oath as Minister of State
Faggan Singh Kulaste takes oath as minister
Gujarat MP Mansukh Mandaviya takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Hardeep Singh Puri takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Arrah (Bihar) MP RK Singh takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) MP Prahlad Patel takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge).
Arunachal West MP Kiren Rijiju takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Udhampur MP Jitendra Singh takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Shripad Naik takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Rao Inderjit Singh takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Mahendra Nath Pandey, Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant and Giriraj Singh take oath as Union Ministers
Bareilly MP Santosh Gangwar takes oath as Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat takes oath as union minister
Giriraj Singh, MP from Bihar's Begusarai, takes oath as Union Minister
Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, MP from UP's Chandauli, takes oath
Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai South takes oath
Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prahlad Joshi take oath as Union Ministers
Pralhad Joshi, MP from Karnataka's Dharwad constituency, takes oath as minister
Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goyal take oath as ministers
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi takes oath as minister
Dharmendra Pradhan takes oath as minister
Piyush Goyal takes oath as Cabinet Minister
Dr. HarshVardhan takes oath as Minister. He was also part of Modi's first government.
Prakash Javadekar takes oath as minister in Modi govt's second term
Now, Smriti Irani takes oath. She defeated Rahul Gandhi from Gandhi pocketborough Amethi.
Irani is expected to get a very important constituency.
Former Jharkhand CM and Khunti MP, Arjun Munda takes oath as Union Minister.
Former Uttarakhand CM, Ramesh Pokhriyal (Nishank) takes oath as Minister.