NEW DELHI: Along with Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman and Prakash Javadekar there were among the 36 ministers who were sworn on Thursday for a second term, besides 20 MPs who took the oath of office as cabinet ministers for the first time. While 24 cabinet ministers were sworn-in the Modi government, nine took oath as ministers of state (Independent charge) and 24 others as ministers of state.

Wearing a beige Nehru jacket, Modi, 68, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony just before sunset at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan, capping a landslide win for the BJP which won 303 of the 542 seats.


Here is all you need to know about Modi’s cabinet ministers


Oath – PM Modi and Ministers took oath on May 30, 2016

Number of ministers took oath - 58 (Including PM)

  • Cabinet Ministers– 25 (Including PM Modi)

  • Ministers with Independent Charge (State)– 9

  • Ministers with State - 24


Average age of Ministers – Around 60 years

Number of States represented in the Ministry – 21 states

  • Number of ministers from Lok Sabha– 45

  • Number of ministers from Rajya Sabha– 11

  • Ministers not from any House– Two (S. Jaishankar, Ramvilas Paswan)

  • Minister not associated with any party– S. Jaishankar


First time Ministers – 19 (Amit Shah, S. Jaishankar, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Arjun Munda, Pralhad Joshi, G Kishan Reddy, Sanjay Dhotre, Arvind Sawant, Anurag Thakur, Suresh Angade, Nityanand Rai, Renuka Singh Saruta, Ratan Lal Kataria, Som Parkash, Rameshwar Teli, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Kailash Choudhary, Devshree Chaudhari, V. Muraleedharan)

Five Former CMs – Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Sadanand Gowda, Arjun Munda, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

Bureaucrat – Five (S. Jaishankar, Hardip Singh Puri, Raj Kumar Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Som Parkash)

Oldest Minister – Ramvilas Paswan (72)

Youngest Minister – Smriti Irani (43)

Ministers from alliances – Four (Ramdas Athwale (RPI-A), Ramvilas Paswan (LJP), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena), Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Akali Dal))

Ministers from different state

  1. Uttar Pradesh – 9

  2. Maharashtra – 8

  3. Bihar – 6

  4. Madhya Pradesh – 5

  5. Karnataka – 4

  6. Rajasthan – 3

  7. Gujarat – 3

  8. Haryana – 3

  9. Arunachal Pradesh – 1

  10. Punjab – 2

  11. West Bengal – 2

  12. Jharkhand – 2

  13. Assam - 1

  14. Delhi – 1

  15. J&K – 1

  16. Odisha – 1

  17. Telangana – 1

  18. Chhattisgarh – 1

  19. Goa – 1

  20. Himachal Pradesh - 1

  21. Uttarakhand – 1


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