Narendra Modi, who led the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a spectacular victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, on Thursday took oath as the Prime Minister. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy in Hindi to Modi at a ceremony attended by thousands of people at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan

Sushma Swaraj, Suresh Prabhu, V.K. Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Jayant Sinha and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were among the Union Ministers missing from the dais for ministers to be inducted in the new Modi government.

Here’s a list of all the ministers who will be joining the new government :

Amit Shah

Ravi Shankar Prasad
Piyush Goyal
Smriti Irani

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Smriti Irani, defeated Gandhi with margin of 55,120 in the bitterly contested high profile seat, which has fetched nation's attention.

Nirmala Sitharaman
Kiren Rijiju
Rajnath Singh
Nitin Gadkari

In the first term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gadkari handled crucial and high-visibility infrastructure-related portfolios like Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, etc and made his indelible mark there.

Dharmendra Pradhan
Dr Harshavardhan
S Jaishankar
Krishan Pal Gurjar
Shripad Naik
Narendra Singh Tomar
Suresh Prabhu
Rao Inderjit Singh
VK Singh
Arjun Ram Meghwal
Ram Vilas Paswan
Harsimrat KaurRita
DV Sadananda Gowda

DV Sadananda got elected for the second time from the prestigious Bangalore North seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. He became the Union Minister for the first time in May 2014 in the NDA-1 government.

Babul Supriyo
Prakash Javadekar
Ramdas Athavale
Jitender Singh
Niranjan Jyoti
Parshottam Rupala
Thawar Chand Gehlot
Rattan Lal Kataria
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
RCP Singh
G Kishan Reddy
Suresh Angadi
A Ravindranath
Kailash Choudhary
Pralhad Joshi
Som Parkash
Rameshwar Teli
Subrat Pathak
Deboshree Choudhury
Rita Bahuguna Joshi

(With IANS)

Meet the new cabinet ministers in the Modi government 2.0