Full list of 58 union cabinet ministers taking oath after Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony

New Delhi: Amit Shah, Smriti Irani, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Prakash Javadekar, Babul Supriyo and several others took the oath of office after Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolio distribution and list of Ministers of State is yet to be announced. Modi, 68, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan. 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. Sushma Swaraj, Manoj Sinha, Mahesh Sharma, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Arun Jaitley, KJ Alphons, Hansraj Ahir, Maneka Gandhi, Radha Mohan Singh, Suresh Prabhu, Anant Geete, Uma Bharti and Jayant Sinha, who were part of the first Modi government, will not feature in the Union cabinet anymore. Here’s a list of leaders who took oath on Thursday evening: CABINET MINISTERS 1. Narendra Modi 2. Rajnath Singh 3. Amit Shah 4. Nitin Jairam Gadkari 5. DV Sadananda Gowda 6. Nirmala Sitharaman 7. Ramvilas Paswan 8. Narendra Singh Tomar 9. Ravi Shankar Prasad 10. Harsimrat Kaur Badal 11. Thaawar Chand Gehlot 12. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 13. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ 14. Arjun Munda 15. Smriti Zubin Irani 16. Harsh Vardhan 17. Prakash Javadekar 18. Piyush Goyal 19. Dharmendra Pradhan 20. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi 21. Pralhad Joshi 22. Mahendra Nath Pandey 23. Arvind Ganpat Sawant 24. Giriraj Singh 25. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) 1. Santosh Kumar Gangwar 2. Inderjit Singh 3. Shripad Yesso Naik 4. Jitendra Singh 5. Kiren Rijiju 6. Prahalad Singh Patel 7. Raj Kumar Singh 8. Hardeep Singh Puri 9. Mansukh L Mandaviya MINISTERS OF STATE 1. Faggansingh Kulaste 2. Ashwini Kumar Choubey 3. Arjun Ram Meghwal 4. General (Retd) VK Singh 5. Krishan Pal 6. Danve Raosaheb Dadarao 7. G Kishan Reddy 8. Parshottam Rupala 9. Ramdas Athawale 10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti 11. Babul Supriyo 12. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan 13. Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao 14. Anurag Singh Thakur 15. Angadi Suresh Channabasappa 16. Nityanand Rai 17. Rattan Lal Kataria 18. V Muraleedharan 19. Renuka Singh Saruta 20. Som Parkash 21. Rameswar Teli 22. Pratap Chandra Sarangi 23. Kailash Choudhary 24. Debasree Chaudhuri This is the second time Modi took oath at the forecourt of the 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 KP Sharma Oli, President of Myanmar U Win Myint and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, also attended the event. Thailand's 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. Source: News 18