Modi 3.0 With 72 Ministers Take Oath, Nine New Faces In Cabinet

President Droupadi Murmu administer oath of office and secrecy to Narendra Modi.

While a lot of well-known names returned to the Union Council of Ministers, nine new faces have been inducted in the Cabinet. Of these, five are from allied parties of BJP in the NDA.

• Manohar Lal Khattar

• HD Kumaraswamy

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan

• Jitan Ram Manjhi

• Lallan Singh

• Ram Mohan Naidu

• Annapurna Devi

• Chirag Paswan

• CR Patil

• Jitin Prasada

• Shripad Naik

• Pankaj Chaudhary

• Krishan Pal Gurjar

• Ramdas Athawale

• Ram Nath Thakur

• Nityanand Rai

• Anupriya Patel

• V Somanna

• Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani

• SP Singh Baghel

• Kirtivardhan Singh

• Shobha Karandlaje

• Shantanu Thakur

• Suresh Gopi

• BL Verma

• L Murugan

• Ajay Tamta

• Bandi Sanjay Kumar

• Kamlesh Paswan

• Bhagirath Chaudhary

• Satish Chandra Dubey

• Sanjay Seth

• Ranveet Singh Bittu

• Durga Das Uikey

• Raksha Khadse

• Sukanta Majumdar

• Savitri Thakur

• Tokhan Sahu

• Raj Bhushan Choudhary

• Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma

• Harsh Malhotra

• Nimuben Bambhania

• Murlidhar Mahol

• George Kurian

• Pabitra Margherita

Thirty Cabinet ministers took oath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. Of these, five Cabinet berths went to allies—Janata Dal (Secular), Hindustani Awami Morcha, Janata Dal United, Telegu Desham Party and Lok Janashakti Party (Ram Vilas).

Five Ministers of State (Independent Charge) — Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav and Jayant Chaudhary — were also sworn in.

• Rajnath Singh (BJP)

• Amit Shah (BJP)

• Nitin Gadkari (BJP)

• JP Nadda (BJP)

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP)

• Nirmala Sitharaman (BJP)

• S Jaishankar (BJP)

• Manohar Lal Khattar (BJP)

• HD Kumaraswamy (JD(S))

• Piyush Goyal (BJP)

• Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP)

• Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM)

• Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh (JDU)

• Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP)

• Dr Virendra Kumar (BJP)

• Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP)

• Pralhad Joshi (BJP)

• Jual Oram (BJP)

• Giriraj Singh (BJP)

• Ashwini Vaishnaw (BJP)

• Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP)

• Bhupender Yadav (BJP)

• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (BJP)

• Annapurna Devi (BJP)

• Kiren Rijiju (BJP)

• Hardeep Singh Puri (BJP)

• Mansukh Mandaviya (BJP)

• G Kishan Reddy (BJP)

• Chirag Paswan (LJP(RV))

• CR Patil (BJP)

Rao Inderjit Singh has been retained as MoS (independent charge) for another term. He was in charge of Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Planning.

Chirag Paswan, son of late Ram Vilas Paswan, administered the oath of office. This will be his first stint on the post.

Three former Cabinet minister — Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya — have been retained in the new government.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who held the civil aviation ministry in the previous government, has been included in the cabinet

Ashwini Vaishnaw, former railways minister and IIT alumnus, takes oath as Cabinet minister.

Giriraj Singh, former rural development minister, is again part of the Modi cabinet.

Jual Oram, BJP leader from Odisha, takes oath of office and secrecy. He was the Tribal Affairs Minister in the previous government.

Former Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi takes oath of office.

Ram Mohan Naidu becomes the first MP from Telugu Desham Party to be sworn in as Cabinet minister.

Former Social Justice Minister Virendra Kumar has been retained in the new Cabinet of ministers.

Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP leader and former Assam Chief Minister, takes oath as Cabinet Minister. In the previous government, he was in charge of ports and AYUSH portfolios.

Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh take oath of office and secrecy as a Cabinet Minister in Modi 3.0 government.

HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi is the next Cabinet Minister to be sworn in.

Dharmendra Pradhan is the next to be sworn in as a Cabinet Minister. He was in charge of education and skill development portfolios in the last government.

Piyush Goyal, former Commerce Minister and Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, takes oath as Cabinet minister. Goyal scored his first electoral win in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

JD(S) chief HD Kumaraswamy is the first non-BJP Cabinet Minister to take oath in Modi Cabinet 3.0.

Former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar sworn in for his first stint as Cabinet minister.

President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office to S Jaishankar. Former top diplomat for the country, Jaishankar was the External Affairs Minister in the previous government.

Nirmala Sitharaman is back as a Cabinet minister. She was in charge of the Finance Ministry in the previous government.

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has also been inducted in the Modi 3.0 Cabinet.

JP Nadda, the BJP chief during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, sworn in as the Cabinet Minister.

Nitin Gadkari has been sworn in as the Cabinet minister.

Amit Shah is the next Cabinet Minister to be sworn in.

Rajnath Singh takes oath as Cabinet minister after Narendra Modi.

President Droupadi Murmu has arrived to administer the oath of office to Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister-designate has also joined other NDA leaders at the ceremony.

Foreign leaders, including Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', Bangladesh President Sheikh Hasina and Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Top BJP leaders, including Amit Shah, Nitish Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Kiren Rijiju and others arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the swearing ceremony of Modi 3.0 Cabinet.

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and JDU leader Nitish Kumar arrive for the swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Around 50 names are doing the rounds as probable new Cabinet members, as per NDTV. The tentative list of contenders for the posts see two each going to Chandrababu Naidu's TDP and Nitish Kumar's JDU. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party or its allies in the National Democratic Alliance are yet to make any official announcement on the matter so far.

This will also be the largest Cabinet since Atal Bihar Vajpayee-led NDA coalition government in 1998.

Check the full list of minister-designates in Modi 3.0 below.

Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi told all those who are taking oath on Sunday as ministers in his third government to be humble as common people adore the virtue. He asked the minister-designates to never compromise on probity and transparency. Modi met the ministers-designate ahead of the oath-taking ceremony on Sunday.

Top leaders, political bigwigs and dignitaries are arriving at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi where Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi will take oath of office for the third time.

BJP leader Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said he will take oath as the Cabinet Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and vowed to serve the nation with zeal and devotion.

"I will take oath as Cabinet Minister around 7.30 pm on 9th June 2024," Rijiju, the Earth Sciences Minister in the outgoing government, said in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Security has been beefed up in parts of New Delhi district in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, officials said.

A multi-layer security arrangement involving five companies of paramilitary personnel, NSG commandoes and snipers have already been deployed around the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Drone cameras have also been put into service.

"More than 2,500 police personnel, including five companies of paramilitary and Delhi Armed Police jawans, have already been deployed around the venue," a Delhi Police officer said.

Top leaders from seven neighbouring nations and Indian Ocean region will attend the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi.

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth arrived in Delhi on Sunday morning for the swearing-in ceremony. This is Muizzu's first visit to India since he took over as the island nation's president on Nov. 17 last year.

Bangladesh President Sheikh Hasina, Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif, Bhutanese Prime MinisterTshering Tobgay, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will also be present.

Narendra Modi is set to take oath as the Prime Minister for the third term in a row. With this, the BJP leader will match the feat of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as the head of a coalition government after two full tenures in which the BJP enjoyed a majority on its own.

Top leaders from neighbouring countries will be in attendance as the new Cabinet is announced in Delhi. Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his Bhutanese counterpart Tshering Tobgay have already arrived in Delhi to attend the event.