Modi swearing-in ceremony Highlights: Modi, 57 ministers take oath; portfolio to be announced soon
Narendra Modi swearing-in ceremony Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath along with a new council of ministers on Thursday for a second term after leading the BJP to a landslide victory in Lok Sabha elections 2019.
Ahead of being sworn in as the prime minister for the second consecutive term, Narendra Modi Thursday morning paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and BJP veteran late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He also placed a wreath at the National War Memorial .
1. Rajnath Singh
2. Amit Shah
3. Nitin Gadkari
4. DV Sadananda Gowda
5. Nirmala Sitharaman
6. Ram Vilas Paswan
7. Narendra Singh Tomar
8. Ravi Shankar Prasad
9. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
10. Thawarchand Gehlot
11. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
12. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
13. Arjun Munda
14. Smriti Irani
15. Dr Harsh Vardhan
16. Prakash Javdekar
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
1. Santosh Kumar Gangwar
2. Rao Inderjit Singh
3. Shripad Yesso Naik
4. Dr Jitendra Singh
5. RK singh
6. Kiren Rijiju
7. Prahlad Singh Patel
8. Hardeep Singh Puri
9. Mansukh Mandaviya
Pratap Chandra Sarangi, is an Indian politician and a social worker from Balasore, Odisha. He has served as a National Executive member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He had been elected as Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly, two times: from 2004 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2014, both times from Nilagiri constituency.
Nityanand Rai yadav was a member of parliament elected in the 2014 General Election from Ujiarpur as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He had continuously represented Hajipur constituency in Bihar legislative assembly winning elections since 2000 till he was elected for the parliament.
Suresh Angadi is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. He was a Member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Belagavi. He was born to Somawwa and Chanabasappa Angadi and completed his graduation from S.S.S. Samithi College of commerce in Belgaum.
Nirmala Sitharam who was appointed as India's first woman Defence Minister into the Narendra Modi cabinet after the 2014 Lok Sabha election. She was also the first one to take charge of this key ministry full time. Sitharaman has also served as the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Finance and the Minister for Commerce and Industry with independent charge.
According to reports, over 10,000 security personnel from Delhi Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in the city on the account of Narendra Modi's oath taking ceremony today. The event will witness some of leading foreign dignitaries and chief ministers and governors of several states among others. Quick Response Teams are also deployed at several crucial spots.
Rattan Lal Kataria (first time)
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (first time)
RCP Singh (first time)
G Kishan Reddy (first time)
Suresh Angadi (first time)
Kailash Chowdhary (first time)
Pralhad Joshi (first time)
Som Parkash (first time)
Rameshwar Teli (first time)
Subrat Pathak (first time)
Deboshree Chaudhary (first time)
As per the latest update received, ministers selected for oath of office will meet PM Modi at 4.30 pm today at his residence.
Sources have also stated that except for 4-6 big faces from previous term, almost all of the previous portfolio holders will take oath again this time.
Here is the latest list of leaders who are likely to take oath today:
R S Prasad
Piyush Goyal
Babul Supriyo
Jitendra Singh
Prahlad Patel
Prahlad Joshi
Smriti Irani
Sadanand Gowda
Arjun Meghwal
Kishan Reddy
Ramchandra Prasad Singh
Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Krishnapal Gurjar
Parshottam Rupala
Ramdas Athawale
Sanjeev Balyan
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Sadhvi Jyoti Niranjan
Thawar Chand Gehlot
Rao Inderjit
Giriraj Singh
Kailash Choudhary
Rajnath Singh
Nityanand Rai
K P Ravindran
Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank"
OP Ravindranath Kumar
Ram Vilas Paswan
Raosaheb Danve
Nitin Gadkari
Som Prakash
Rameswar Teli
Sripad Naik
Gajendra Shekhawat
General VK Singh
Mahesh Sharma
Devashree Raiganj
Sanjay Dohatare
Santosh Gangwar
Narendra Modi will take oath for a second term as prime minister on one of the hottest days of the month with the weatherman predicting that the mercury in the national capital could touch the 44-degree Celsius mark on Thursday.
The city recorded the maximum temperature at 43.1 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, a Met official said, adding the mercury may rise further in the coming days.
The minimum was recorded at 23.6 degrees Celsius, two notches below the normal, and humidity levels were between 19 and 53 per cent.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the national capital Wednesday recorded the air quality in the moderate category at 186, with PM10, ozone and PM2.5 being the major pollutants.
The official said heat wave conditions will prevail in a few pockets of the city on Thursday. The maximum and minimum temperatures would be between 44 and 25 degrees Celsius.
India Meteorological Department regional weather forecasting chief Kuldeep Srivastav said heat wave conditions will prevail in Delhi over the next four-five days with the mercury soaring to 45-46 degrees Celsius.
Modi 2.0 cabinet and speculations around it:
Though there is an intense buzz that Shah, credited for crafting the political strategy for the BJP, may be part of the new government and be given a plum portfolio, there was no clarity yet on him making a ministerial debut at the Centre. There was also speculation that Shah might continue as BJP chief since Assembly elections in some key states are due to be held in the next one year.
Many BJP leaders are of the view that most key members of the previous Cabinet could be retained.
Senior members like Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Singh Tomar and Prakash Javadekar are likely to retain their place. Irani, who defeated Rahul Gandhi in his home turf of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to earn the tag of giant killer, is expected to get a key portfolio.
A day before the swearing-in ceremony, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley wrote to Modi saying he does not want to be a minister in the new government on health grounds.
There have been indications that the new ministry will reflect BJP's rising strength in states like West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana.
As far as allies are concerned, both the Shiv Sena and the JD(U) are expected to get two berths (one cabinet and one MoS) each, while the LJP and the SAD may be given one berth each.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had a meeting with Shah on Wednesday and the two leaders are understood to have discussed JD(U)'s representation in the government
Lok Janshakti Party on Tuesday passed a resolution, recommending its president Ram Vilas Paswan as the party's representative in the Modi government.
The AIADMK, which was also not part of the previous government, won only one seat. It may be given a ministerial berth as it is in power in Tamil Nadu besides being a key Dravidian ally of the BJP.
A multi-layered security arrangement will be in place in the city on Thursday, with deployment of around 10,000 security personnel from Delhi Police and paramilitary forces on account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony which will attended by foreign dignitaries and chief ministers and governors of several states among others.
Background
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath along with a new council of ministers on Thursday for a second term. Suspense mounted on who will get the big four ministries in Modi cabinet - Home, Finance, Defence and External Affairs. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath taking ceremony started at 7 pm on Thursday. Modi cabinet ministers 2019 list was being intensely speculated since last few days ahead of the oath taking ceremony of Modi. Both PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah held a marathon meeting for the second consecutive day on Wednesday during which they are learnt to have finalised the broad contours the new ministry that is expected to have some new faces besides retaining most of the senior ministers.
After an intense buzz Shah, who is credited for crafting the political strategy for the BJP, was a part of new government and be given a plum portfolio. Under the stewardship of Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance secured a landslide win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, paving way for Modi’s second straight term as Indian Prime Minister.
Modi and his council of ministers took oath at 7.00 pm Thursday evening at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
A highest ever 8,000 guests, including VVIPs, attended the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his council of ministers.
Rashtrapati Bhavan kitchen's speciality 'Dal Raisina' was served to foreign delegates in a dinner to be hosted by President Ram Nath Kovind to dignitaries after the function.
The swearing-in ceremony was about 90 minutes long and after that a dinner will be served to around 40 dignitaries, including Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and the prime minister, besides leaders of all BIMSTEC countries, Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson Ashok Malik said Wednesday.
Ahead of being sworn in as the prime minister for the second consecutive term, Narendra Modi Thursday morning paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and BJP veteran late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
He also placed a wreath at the National War Memorial here.
The prime minister visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, at around 7.00 am. Later Modi went to Sadaiv Atal, the lotus-shaped memorial of late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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