PM Narendra Modi

Winning majority seats, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to form the government. As the clock ticked 7.22 pm today, Narendra Modi took oath as prime minister for the third consecutive time.

On the occasion, leaders from India’s neighbourhood and Indian Ocean region were cordially invited as distinguished guests.

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List of ministers taking oath:

Rajnath Singh

Amit Shah

Nitin Gadkari

Shivraj Singh Chauhan

Nirmala Sitharaman

S Jaishankar

Manohar Lal

Piyush Goyal

Jitan Ram Manjhi

Rajeev Ranjan Singh

Sarvananda Sonowal

Dr Virendra Singh

RM Naidu

BV Joshi

Giriraj Singh

Ashwini Vaishnaw

Jyotiraditya Scindia

Bhupendra Yadav

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

HD Kumaraswamy

Annapurna Devi

Kiren Rijiju

Hardeep Singh Puri

Mansukh Mandaviya

G Kishan Reddy

Chirag Paswan

CR Patil

Indrajit Singh

Jitendra Singh

Arjun Ram Meghwal

Pratap Rao Jadhav

Jayant Chaudhary

Pankaj Chaudhary

Krishan Pal

Ramdas Athawale

Ram Nath Thakur

V Somanna

Anupriya Patel

Pemmasani Chandra

SP Singh Baghel

Shobha Karandlaje

Kirti Vardhan Singh

Shantanu Thakur

Suresh Gopi

L Murugan

Ajay Tamta

Bandi Sanjay

Kamlesh Paswan

Bhagirath Choudhary

Satish Chandra Dubey

Sanjay Seth

Durga Das Uikey

Ravneet Singh

Raksha Nikhil Khadse

Sukanta Majumdar

Amid chants of 'Modi' Narendra Modi takes oath as Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive time at 7.22 pm.

President Droupadi Murmu arrive at the venue of swearing-in ceremony.

Narendra Modi arrive at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, bows down addressing the public and sits beside Rajnath Singh.

PM Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Delhi MPs Bansuri Swaraj, and Manoj Tiwari, Nitish Kumar, N Chandrababu Naidu, actor Raveena Tandon, Gautam Adani present at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Congress President and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge present at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Chief Justice of India Dr Dhananjaya Chandrachud and his wife Kalpana Das arrive at ceremony venue.

Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, PM of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay, PM of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hassina and her daughter Saima Wazed, and Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif and other neighbouring country leaders arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Actor Shah Rukh Khan, superstar Rajnikant, Business Tycoon Mukesh Ambani, Anant Ambani, Rajnath Singh, Kangana Ranaut, and JP Nadda arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jeetan Ram Manjhi, S Jaishankar, former President Ram Nath Kovind, Kerala minister Suresh Gopi, Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju, Yogi Adityanath, Amit Shah present at ceremony venue.

Ajit Pawar, Vasundhra Raje, director Rajkumar Hirani and actors Vikrant Massey and Akshay Kumar arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Devendra Fadnavis, Jana Sena Party’s Pawan Kalyan, Hardeep SIngh Puri and Shivraj Singh Chauhan arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Mansukh Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala arrive at the ceremony.

Former Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Around 10,000 guests have been invited for the ceremony.

Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda extended congratulations to PM Modi on his historic third term win and expressed regret for his absence at the oath-taking ceremony.

Not wanting to be late for Punjab to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official home in central Delhi today, BJP leader Ravneet SIngh Bittu was seen running along with his guards as the traffic in the national capital had slowed his car down.

List of probable Council of ministers

Bihar: Chirag Paswan, Giriraj Singh, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Ram Nath Thakur, Lalan Singh, Niryandan Rai, Raj Bhushan, and Satish Dubey.

Odisha: Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan, and Jual Oram.

Goa: Shripad Naik

Jammu and Kashmir: Jitendra Singh

Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Savitri Thakur, and Veerendra Kumar.

Arunachal Pradesh: Kiren Rijiju

Rajasthan: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bhupender Yadav, and Bhagirath Chaudhary.

Haryana: ML Khattar, Rao Inderjit Singh, and Krishan Pal Gurjar.

Ministers from UP

Hardeep Singh Puri, Rajnath Singh, Jayant Chaudhary, Jitin Prasada, Pankaj Chaudhary, BL Verma, Anupriya Patel, Kamlesh Paswan and SP Singh Baghel

BJP's Andhra MP Bhupathi Raju slated to become Union Minister

Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma is likely to take oath as a Union Minister today.  

Varma, who was elected from Narsapuram constituency, has reportedly received a communication to this effect from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Six Maharashtra MPs set to get ministerial berths

Six MPs from Maharashtra are set to be inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government -- Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Raksha Khadse, Murlidhar Mohol, Ramdas Athawale and Prataprao Jadhav. 

Incidentally, none of the NCP MPs, including Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare, will get the ministerial berths.

Similarly, BJP's outgoing Union Ministers Narayan Rane and Dr Bhagwat Karad have not found a place in the new cabinet.

Kishan Reddy, Bandi Sanjay from Telangana to be part of Modi 3.0 team

Two BJP MPs from Telangana are set to take oath as ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet. 

State BJP president G. Kishan Reddy, who was a member of the outgoing Cabinet, has retained his place while Bandi Sanjay Kumar will be the new face in the ministry from Telangana, party sources said.

Kumaraswamy to be sworn in as Cabinet Minister

JD-S President HD Kumaraswamy is all set to be sworn in as a Union Cabinet Minister in Modi 3.0 government. 

Kumaraswamy won the Mandya Lok Sabha seat with a thumping margin of 2.84 lakh votes against Congress candidate Venkaramane Gowda, a close associate of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar.

Jodhpur MP Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to be in Council of Ministers for 3rd time

After scoring a hat-trick win in the Jodhpur Lok Sabha seat, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is going to become a Central minister for the third time. 

He was one of those who attended the tea party organised at the Prime Minister's residence.

Shekhawat expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister for making him a minister for the third time.

While talking to the media, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given him an opportunity to serve the country by including him in his team for the third time.

Guest list for PM Modi's swearing in ceremony 

President of Sri Lanka Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe

President of Maldives Dr Mohamed Muizzu

Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth

Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’

Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay, have accepted the invitation to attend.

In addition to participating in the swearing-in ceremony, the leaders will attend a Banquet hosted by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, on the same evening.

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