Here's The Full List Of Ministers Who Took Oath In Modi Cabinet 3.0

Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister on Sunday for a record-equalling third term, heading a 72-member Union Council of Ministers that put emphasis on continuity, youth and experience while also rewarding partners in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government.

Along with Modi, senior BJP leaders including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar, all ministers in the Modi 2.0 cabinet, took oath as cabinet ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of secrecy and office to Modi and 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State with Independent charge, and 36 Ministers of State. Portfolios of the new ministers are yet to be announced.

The strength of the Modi ministry including the prime minister stood at 72 as against the maximum limit of 81.

All states which send four or more MPs to the 543-member Lok Sabha have found representation in the Council of Ministers besides smaller states like Goa and Arunachal Pradesh.

Bihar has scored big as among the eight ministers from the state four were given cabinet rank, including BJP's Dalit allies Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi. Uttar Pradesh got nine berths, including one in the cabinet in Rajnath Singh while Maharashtra, which goes to the assembly polls in October, has its six MPs in the Council of Ministers.

Seven women figure among the 72 ministers, less than 10 per cent of its total strength. At least 42 ministers were from the Other Backward Class(OBC), Scheduled Caste(SC) and Scheduled Tribe(ST) category. There was no Muslim representation in the new coalition government.

Cabinet Ministers

• Rajnath Singh

• Amit Shah

• Nitin Jairam Gadkari

• Jagat Prakash Nadda

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan

• Nirmala Sitharaman

• Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

• Manohar Lal

• H. D. Kumaraswamy

• Piyush Goyal

• Dharmendra Pradhan

• Jitan Ram Manjhi

• Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh

• Sarbananda Sonowal

• Dr. 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

• Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

• G. Kishan Reddy

• Chirag Paswan

• C R Patil

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

• Rao Inderjit Singh

• Dr. Jitendra Singh

• Arjun Ram Meghwal

• Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao

• Jayant Chaudhary

Ministers of State

• Jitin Prasada

• Shripad Yesso Naik

• Pankaj Chaudhary

• Krishan Pal

• Ramdas Athawale

• Ram Nath Thakur

• Nityanand Rai

• Anupriya Patel

• V. Somanna

• Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani

• Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel

• Sushri Sobha Karandlaje

• Kirtivardhan Singh

• B. L. Verma

• Shantanu Thakur

• Suresh Gopi

• Dr. 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

As many as 37 union ministers were dropped from the government in Modi's third term and these include seven with cabinet rank -- prominent among them being Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur and Narayan Rane. While some of the ministers lost some emerged victorious at the hustings.

The first meeting of the Modi cabinet is likely to be held on Monday evening at the Prime Minister's Lok Kalyan Marg residence, sources told PTI. BJP president J P Nadda also hosted a dinner for those inducted in the new Modi government's council of ministers, the sources said.

(With PTI inputs)