Narendra Modi Sworn In As Prime Minister, Amit Shah Finds Place In New Cabinet

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India's prime minister for a second consecutive term. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office 57 ministers of the new government, including first-timer Amit Shah, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The full list of the council of ministers can be seen here.

A look at the Modi swearing-in ceremony, as it happened.

Some former Union ministers have not been given a second stint in the new Modi government.

• Sushma Swaraj, who was the external affairs minister, was present in the audience today but wasn't sworn-in as a union minister.
• Rajyavardhan Rathore, who served as a Minister of State for Ministry, was given a miss.
• Maneka Gandhi, who was earlier the Women and Child Affairs Minister, found no place in Modi 2.0.
• Jagat Prakash Nadda too did not make it to the union cabinet this time. He had served as the Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
• Jayant Sinha, the former Minister of State for Civil Aviation, did not make the cut either. His father, Yashwant Sinha has been a vocal critic of the Modi government.
• Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had opted out of the Modi government citing health concerns.
• Former Water Affairs Minister Uma Bharati was also given a miss.

At the end of the swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the leaders of BIMSTEC nations met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind. The guests will now head to a dinner hosted by the President.

West Bengal BJP leader Deboshree Chowdhury has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. She won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Raiganj, West Bengal. She will be a first time union minister.

Rajasthan BJP leader Kailash Choudhary has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Barmer, Rajasthan. He is a first-time union minister.

Odisha BJP leader Pratap Chandra Sarangi has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Balasore, Odisha. He is a first-time union minister.

Assam BJP leader Rameshwar Teli has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Dibrugarh, Assam. He is a first-time minister.

Punjab BJP leader Som Prakash has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hoshiarpur, Punjab. He is a first-time union minister.

Chhattisgarh BJP leader Renuka Singh Saruta has taken oath of office as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. She won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Surguja constituency.

BJP’s Kerala unit President V Muralidharan has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra. He is a first-time union minister.

BJP leader Rattan Lal Kataria has taken the oath as a minister of state. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Ambala, Haryana. He is a first-time union minister.

Nityanand Rai has taken the oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi's second government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Ujiarpur in Bihar. He is a first-time union minister.

BJP's Suresh Angadi has taken the oath of office as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Belgaum, Karnataka. He is a first-time union minister.

BJP leader Anurag Thakur has taken the oath of office as a minister of state in the new government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. He is a first-time union minister.

BJP leader Sanjay Shyamrao Dhotre has taken the oath of office as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Akola, Maharashtra. He is a first-time union minister.

Sanjeev Balyan has taken the oath of office as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. He was the minister of state for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation in the outgoing government.

Babul Supriyo has taken oath of office as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He defeated TMC's Moon Moon Sen in Asansol in the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He was the minister of state for heavy industries in the previous government.

Niranjan Jyoti, who was a minister of state for food processing in Narendra Modi government’s previous term, has taken oath of office as a minister of state in the new government. She won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Ramdas Atahwale has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra. He was the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment earlier.

Parshottam Rupala has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. Ruapal was Minsiter of State for Agriculture, Farmer's Welfare and Panchayati Raj.

Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Secunderabad. He is a first-time union minister.

Maharashtra BJP president Raosaheb Patil Danve has taken the oath of office as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Jalna, Maharashtra.

Krishan Pal Gurjar has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi govenrment. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Faridabad. He was Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment.

Vijay Kumar Singh has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Ghaziabad. He was the Minister of State for Defence.

Arjun Ram Meghwal has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bikaner. He was the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources.

Ashwini Kumar Choubey has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the Lok Sabha elections from Buxar, Bihar. Earlier, he was the Minsiter of State for Health and Family Welfare.

BJP leader Faggan Singh Kulaste has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. He is a first-time union minister.

BJP general secretary from Gujarat, Mansukh Mandaviya, has taken oath of office as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat.

Hardeep Singh Puri has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Amritsar. Puri was the Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development.

Raj Kumar Singh has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Ara, Bihar. He was the Minister of State (independent charge) In the Power and Renewable Energy Ministry

BJP leader Prahlad Singh Patel has taken oath as minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Damoh, Madhya Pradesh. He is a first-time union minister.

Kiren Rijiju has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Arunachal West constituency. He was the Minister of State for Home Affairs.

Jitendra Singh has taken oath as a minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir. He was Minister of State for North East India and the Prime Minister's Office.

BJP leader Shripad Naik has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from North Goa. He was the Minister of State (AYUSH) earlier.

BJP leader Inderjit Singh has taken oath as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Gurugram, Haryana. He is a first-time union minister.

Santosh Kumar Gangwar has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. He was the Minister of State for Labour and Employment.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He was the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare.

BJP leader Arvind Ganpat Sawant has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the elections from Mumbai (South) for a second time in 2019. He is a first-time union minister.

UP BJP chief Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh. He was MoS in the HRD ministry in 2016-17.

BJP leader Prahlad Joshi has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Dharwad, Karnataka. He is a first-time union minister.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He had held twin portfolios of Union Minister for Minority Affairs and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.

Dharmendra Pradhan has taken the oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi govenrment. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh. It remains to be seen whether he retains his portfolio. He was the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

Piyush Goyal has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra. He didn’t contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Goyal had served as the Union Railway and Coal Minister. He had also stepped in as the finance minister when Arun Jaitley had gone to U.S. for treatment earlier this year.

Prakash Javadekar has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra. He was earlier the Union Human Resource Development Minister.

Delhi BJP leader Harsh Vardhan has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Chandni Chowk in Delhi. It remains to be seen whether he retains his Union Science Minister portfolio.

Smriti Irani has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. She defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It remains to be seen whether she retains her portfolio as the Union textile minister.

Former Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Khunti, Jharkhand. Munda is a BJP leader.

Former foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He is not a Member of the Parliament. He did not contest the elections either. He is the second new face in Modi 2.0 after Amit Shah.

Thawar Singh Gehlot has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Shajapur. Gehlot, earlier, was the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. She won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bathinda, Punjab. Earlier she was the Union Food Processing Minister.

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. He defeated Congress’ Shatrughan Sinha from Patna Sahib, Bihar, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In the previous government, Prasad held twin portfolios of the law ministry and the information and broadcast ministry.

BJP leader Narendra Singh Tomar has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Morena, Madhya Pradesh. He was the Union Rural Development Minister earlier.

Lok Janshakti Party's Ram Vilas Paswan has taken oath as a union minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the Lok Sabha elections from Hajipur, Bihar. He was earlier the Union food minister.

Nirmala Sitharaman has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. She is a Rajya Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh. She had earlier served as the Defence Minister.

DV Sadananda Gowda has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the Lok Sabha elections from the Bangalore (North) constituency. In the previous government, Gowda was the Union Minister of Earth Sciences.

Nitin Gadkari has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. He won the Lok Sabha elections from Nagpur, the seat of BJP's ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Gadkari had headed the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in the previous cabinet.

BJP president Amit Shah has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government, making him a first-time union minister. He won the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar, the erstwhile constituency of LK Advani. It remains to be seen what portfolio will be allocated to him.

Rajnath Singh has taken oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. However, it remains to be seen what portfolio will be allocated to him.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India’s prime minister for a second term.

Filmmaker Karan Johar, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Asia's richest Mukesh adn Nita Ambani are among the prominent personalities present for Modi's swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. As many as 8,000 guests are expected to be present at the event.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are attending Modi’s swearing-in. They arrived soon after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Delhi Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad have also arrived for Modi’s swearing in.

Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan saying that the JD(U) will not be a part of the new Narendra Modi government. The JD(U) and the Bharatiya Janata Party had swept the Bihar Lok Sabha elections.

Kumar said that they are “fully” with the NDA and are “working together”.

Narendra Modi, who will soon be sworn prime minister for a second term, has arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Gujarat BJP PResident Jitu Vaghani has congratulated Amit Shah on becoming part of Narendra Modi’s union cabinet.

“Had a courtesy meeting with our mentor Amit Shah and gave my best wishes to him on his inclusion as a strong member of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers,” he tweeted.

Ministers selected for oath of office will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence at 4:30 p.m. today, shortly before the swearing-in ceremony, sources told PTI.

Earlier in the morning, the prime minister held a final round of consultations with Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah to give shape to his council of ministers before sending the list to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

As the party geared up for the celebrations, Shah's Akbar Road residence was decked up. BJP General Secretary (Organisation) Ram Lal was among those who met Shah at his residence.

Modi and Shah have held several rounds of discussions in the last two days ahead of government formation.

Shah, the architect of BJP's victory of 303 seats in the Lok Sabha, is believed to be among those who will join the Modi cabinet and is tipped to get either Home or Finance, sources told PTI. Other senior party leaders such as Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh Tomar, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and Smriti Irani are also likely to join the second Modi government after being its members in its first avatar.

The others tipped to get a ministerial berth include Sadananda Gowda, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Jayant Sinha, Giriraj Singh, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Thawarchand Gehlot, Dilip Ghosh, Jitendra Singh and Purshottam Rupala.

Sources said Modi government 2.0 is likely to showcase the party's newfound strength in different regions.

NDA Allies To Get One Cabinet Berth Each?

BJP allies like Shiv Sena, Janata Dal (United), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Lok Janshakti Party, Akali Dal and Apna Dal are set to be represented in the government.

Each NDA ally is likely to get one cabinet berth, sources said, according to a PTI report.

The Shiv Sena has confirmed its leader Arvind Sawant, who defeated Congress heavyweight Milind Deora from Mumbai, will be its nominee in the council of ministers.

Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Badal, who was Food Processing Minister in the earlier government, will be in the new council of ministers as well, sources said.

The Lok Janshakti Party has already passed a resolution recommending its president Ram Vilas Paswan as the party's representative in the Modi government.

The Apna Dal's Anupriya Patel is likely to be in the council of ministers.

The JD-U is likely to nominate either Ram Nath Thakur or Santosh Kushwaha, sources said.

With inputs from PTI

Arun Jaitley, finance minister in Narendra Modi’s first cabinet, urged the prime minister in a letter yesterday to not include him in the new government for the time being because of health reasons.

Jaitley said he has had some serious health challenges in the last 18 months and needs to concentrate on his treatment and health.

Hours later, Modi drove to Jaitley's official residence in New Delhi and was with him for sometime, officials said.

Read the full letter here.

Narendra Modi will take an oath to serve as India’s Prime Minister for another term today at 7 p.m. in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

President Ram Nath Kovind will administer the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year-old Modi and his ministerial colleagues.

The ceremony is expected to be a grand affair with about 8,000 guests, including leaders from the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation countries, opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, state chief ministers, corporate leaders and film stars.

Meanwhile, the Indian National Congress has decided to not send spokespersons on television debates for a month, as the party faces a leadership crisis with Rahul Gandhi insisting on his resignation as its president.