New Delhi. Setting a history in Indian democracy, Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister of India, being the second RSS Swayamsevak to reach the post after Atal Bihari Vajapeyee. Narendra Damodardas Modi, 63, today took the oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India at the biggest-ever swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. President Pranab Mukherjee chaired the oath taking ceremony.
The swearing in ceremony was attended by RSS functionaries Dattatreya Hosabale, Suresh Soni, Indresh Kumar, Ram Madhav, VHP’s Ashok Singhal, Samskrita Bharari’s Dinesh Kamat, Itihas Sankalan Samiti’s Balamukund, Rashtra Sevika Samitis Shanthakka, Bharatiy Kisan Sanghs Dinesh Kulakarni, Hindu Manch’s Ashok Prabhakar Thinker Vinay Sahasrabuddhe along with few other top Sangh Parivar functionaries.
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Napalese PM Sushil Koirala and Bhutanese PM TsheringTobgay, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Former President APJ Abdul Kalam and Pratibha Patil, former Prime Ministers Dr. Manmohan Singh, HD Devegouda, leaders of NDA and UPA, and several other VVIP’s attended the event.
Karnataka’ s well known Adichunchanagiri Mutt’s Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji, Pejawar Seer Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Satyamitrananda Swamiji, Guru Govind Devgiri, Ramesh Bhai Ojha, Vijay Koushal Maharaj and several other religious leaders attended.
A total of 45 ministers including 24 cabinet ministers, 11 Ministers of State, 10 Ministers with Independent Charge took oath and sworn in as ministers, will be part of Modi’s govt, during the ceremony.
It has been a prolific rise for a man who joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1971 as a pracharak and went on to be elected as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for four consecutive times. After leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a stunning mandate in the recent Lok Sabha polls by winning over 280 seats, Modi will now be the Prime Minister of India’s for the next 5 years.
Team Modi and their portfolios:
Cabinet Ministers
Narendra Modi – Prime Minister, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
D V Sadananda Gowda – Railways
Uma Bharti – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Najma Heptullah – Minority Affairs
Gopinath Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development
Ananth Kumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati – Civil Aviation
Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani – Human Resource Development
Dr Harsh Vardhan – Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State
General (Retd) V K Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs
G M Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha – Railways
Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers
Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Radhakrishnan P – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Agriculture, Food
