Narendra Modi takes oath as Prime Minister for second term\, Amit Shah joins Union Cabinet

Narendra Modi takes oath as Prime Minister for second term, Amit Shah joins Union Cabinet

Published: May 30,201907:13 PM by DT NEXT Online Desk

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his oath of office on Thursday along with his ministers, including for the first time the powerful chief of his ruling BJP party, Amit Shah, that just won a landslide victory in a general election.

New Delhi:
Narendra Modi was on Thursday sworn in as country's Prime Minister for a second term, heading the National Democratic Alliance government in the presence of a large gathering of national and international dignitaries.
Modi, 68, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony at the forecourt of majestic Rashtraparti Bhavan.
The other top leaders who were sworn-in as Union ministers included BJP president Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman and Ram Vilas Paswan.
While Modi, Singh, Shah, Gadkari, Paswan took oath of office in Hindi, Gowda and Sitharaman took it in English.
Some of the key ministers in the previous Modi government, including Sushma Swaraj, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Maneka Gandhi were not part of the new dispensation.
Full list of the new council of ministers 
  1. Rajnath Singh
  2. Amit Shah
  3. Nitin Gadkari 
  4. Sadananda Gowda 
  5. Nirmala Sitharaman
  6. Ramvilas Paswan
  7. Narendra Singh Tomar
  8. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 
  9. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
  10. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
  11. Ravi Shankar Prasad
  12. Thawar Chand Gehlot
  13. Arjun Munda 
  14. Smriti Irani
  15. Harsh Vardhan
  16. Prakash Javadekar 
  17. Piyush Goyal
  18. Dharmendra Pradhan
  19. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi 
  20. Prahlad Joshi
  21. Mahendra Nath Pandey
  22. Arvind Sawant 
  23. Giriraj Singh 
  24. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
  25. Santosh Kumar Gangwar
  26. Rao Inderjit
  27. Shripad Yesso Naik
  28. Jitendra Singh
  29. Kiren Rijju
  30. Prahlad Singh Patel
Top opposition leaders including former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, corporate honchos, film stars, chief ministers and a galaxy of leaders from BIMSTEC countries were part of the nearly 8,000 guests at the ceremony.
This is the second time Modi took the oath at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Modi was sworn in by the then President Pranab Mukherjee in 2014 in the presence of over 3,500 guests including the heads of SAARC countries.
Earlier, Chandra Shekhar in 1990 and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999 were sworn in at the sprawling forecourt.
Leaders of BIMSTEC countries including President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, President of Myanmar U Win Myint and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering also attended the gala event.
From Thailand, its Special Envoy Grisada Boonrach represented the country.
Besides India, BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) comprises Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan as members.
Kyrgyz President and current chair of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, and Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth also attended the event. 
(More details awaited)