NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi has taken oath as the new Prime Minister of India at a grand oath-taking ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Senior leaders Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and DV Sadananda Gowda also took oath along with the Prime Minister.
The news of Amit Shah's introduction emerged in a congratulatory tweet from a BJP leader to Amit Shah hours before PM Modi's swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan for a second straight term after the BJP's incredible election victory.
Amit Shah's phone-calls went to all new ministers in the government, reported NDTV.
Besides Amit Shah, PM Modi's government will include Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Sadananda Gowda, Arjun Meghwal, Kiren Rijiju, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal, Prakash Javadekar, Jitender Singh, Suresh Angadi, Babul Supriyo, Kailash Chowdhury, Prahlad Joshi and G Kishan Reddy.
Several first-timers have also made it to the government. Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Subrat Pathak, Rattan Lal Kataria, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, RCP Singh, G Kishan Reddy, Som Parkash, Deboshree Chaudhary are among them, NDTV reported.
