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.
Further, as advised by the Prime Minister, the President has appointed the following as Members of the Union Council of Ministers:-
Cabinet Ministers
1. Raj Nath Singh
2. Amit Shah
3. Nitin Jairam Gadkari
4. D. V. Sadananda Gowda
5. Nirmala Sitharaman
6. Ramvilas Paswan
7. Narendra Singh Tomar
8. Ravi Shankar Prasad
9. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
10. Thaawar Chand Gehlot
11. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
12. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
13. Arjun Munda
14. Smriti Zubin Irani
15. Dr. Harsh Vardhan
16. Prakash Javadekar
17. Piyush Goyal
18. Dharmendra Pradhan
19. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
20. Pralhad Joshi
21. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
22. Arvind Ganpat Sawant
23. Giriraj Singh
24. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
1. Santosh Kumar Gangwar
2. Rao Inderjit Singh
3. Shripad Yesso Naik
4. Dr. Jitendra Singh
5. Kiren Rijiju
6. Prahalad Singh Patel
7. Raj Kumar Singh
8. Hardeep Singh Puri
9. Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Ministers of State
1. Faggansingh Kulaste
2. Ashwini Kumar Choubey
3. Arjun Ram Meghwal
4. General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
5. Krishan Pal
6. Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
7. G. Kishan Reddy
8. Parshottam Rupala
9. Ramdas Athawale
10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
11. Babul Supriyo
12. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
13. Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
14. Anurag Singh Thakur
15. Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
16. Nityanand Rai
17. Rattan Lal Kataria
18. V. Muraleedharan
19. Renuka Singh Saruta
20. Som Parkash
21. Rameswar Teli
22. Pratap Chandra Sarangi
23. Kailash Choudhary
24. Debasree Chaudhuri
