From Narendra Modi to Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, more than 50 leaders took the oath of office and secrecy on May 30
Having notched up a thumping victory in Lok Sabha Elections 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was on Thursday sworn in for a second term in office. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more than 50 leaders of the BJP and other alliance partners in the NDA were administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Apart from Modi, some of the most prominent names in the new Union Cabinet are those of BJP President Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nitin Gadkari, D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan and Ravi Shankar Prasad. A surprise entrant in the list of ministers was former foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
The portfolios of the sworn-in ministers are yet to be announced. While many incumbent ministers were among those who took oath, several minsters in the first stint of the Modi government were also left out. The most high-profile among those who will not be in the second Modi Cabinet are Arun Jaitley, who had requested PM Modi on Wednesday that he should not
Here is the full list of ministers who took oath on Thursday:
Narendra Modi: Narendra Damodardas Modi, the 14th prime minister of India who has been re-elected for a second term in office, is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Born in Gujarat’s Vadnagar in 1950, Modi is said to have spent his early childhood working in his family tea stall and also selling tea at railway platforms.
Rajnath Singh: A Bharatiya Janata party veteran, Rajnath Singh had been the Union home minister in the first term of the Narendra Modi government. He was also the head of the BJP’s manifesto drafting committee.
Amit Shah: A businessman-turned-politician, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is also referred to as the ‘Chanakya’ of modern Indian politics. A close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, Amit Shah put his political acumen to use on a pan-Indian basis even before donning the mantle of the BJP president.
Nitin Gadkari: The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping in the first term of the Modi government, Nitin Gadkari is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He also held the Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation portfolios.
D V Sadananda Gowda: Gowda, a former chief minister of Karnataka, served as the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation in the first term of the Modi government. He had the additional charge of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry as well.
Nirmala Sitharaman: Nirmala Sitharaman, a BJP politician and the Minister of State for Defence in the first term of the Modi government, had also held the portfolio of commerce and industry minister with independent charge.
Ram Vilas Paswan: Ram Vilas Paswan, a politician from Bihar and President of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), started his political career as a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Paswan joined the Lok Dal in 1974 and was subsequently appointed as the general secretary of the party. ..
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