71 Ministers in New Modi Government

way2barak, June 9 : Narendra Modi today took oath as Prime Minister for a record third term, equalling India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of three wins.

Honour guards lined the steps of the Rashtrapati Bhavan where thousands gathered to watch PM Modi, dressed in a white kurta and with blue waistcoat, take the oath.

PM Modi was followed immediately by top BJP aides Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari.

PM Modi’s party, BJP, won 240 seats in this year’s poll, 32 short of a majority in the 543-member lower house. Allies helped him cross the 272-majority mark, with the National Democratic Alliance or NDA notching up 293 seats

Cabinet Ministers who took oath along with PM:

1. Rajnath Singh
2. Amit Shah
3. Nitin Gadkari
4. JP Nadda
5. Shivraj Singh Chouhan
6. Nirmala Sitharaman
7. S Jaishankar
8. Manohar Lal Khattar
9. HD Kumaraswamy
10. Piyush Goyal
11. Dharmendra Pradhan
12. Jitan Ram Manjhi
13. Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh
14. Sarbananda Sonowal
15. Dr Virendra Kumar
16. Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu
17. Pralhad Joshi
18. Jual Oram
19. Giriraj Singh
20. Ashwini Vaishnaw
21. Jyotiraditya Scindia
22. Bhupender Yadav
23. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
24. Annapurna Devi
25. Kiren Rijiju
26. Hardeep Singh Puri
27. Mansukh Mandaviya
28. G Kishan Reddy
29. Chirag Paswan
30. CR Patil

Ministers of State With Independent Charge:

1. 1. Rao Inderjit Singh
   2. Jitendra Singh
   3. Arjun Ram Meghwal
   4. Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
   5. Jayant Chaudhary

   Minister of State

   1. Jitin Prasada
   2. Shripad Naik
   3. Pankaj Chaudhary
   4. Krishan Pal Gurjar
   5. Ramdas Athawale
   6. Ram Nath Thakur
   7. Nityanand Rai
   8. Anupriya Patel
   9. V Somanna
   10. Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
   11. SP Singh Baghel
   12. Shobha Karandlaje
   13. Kirti Vardhan Singh
   14. BL Verma
   15. Shantanu Thakur
   16. Suresh Gopi
   17. L Murugan
   18. Ajay Tamta
   19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar
   20. Kamlesh Paswan
   21. Bhagirath Chaudhary
   22. Satish Chandra Dubey
   23. Sanjay Seth
   24. Ravneet Singh Bittu
   25. Durga Das Uikey
   26. Raksha Khadse
   27. Sukanta Majumdar
   28. Savitri Thakur
   29. Tokhan Sahu
   30. Rajbhushan Chaudhary
   31. Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma
   32. Harsh Malhotra
   33. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
   34. Murlidhar Mohol
   35. George Kurian
   36. Pabitra Margherita