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New Delhi, May 30: A week after the BJP-led NDA won the Lok Sabha elections with a massive mandate, Narendra Modi on Thursday May 30 took oath as Prime Minister for the second time at 7 pm.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy in Hindi to Modi and other ministers at a ceremony attended by thousands of people at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

More than 8,000 guests including international leaders were invited to swearing-in ceremony. Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad and others were in attendance, while West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was absent.

The key inclusion in the cabinet is that of BJP president Amit Shah, called the 'Chanakya' of modern day Indian politics. He is most likely to be given the finance portfolio, which was earlier with Arun Jaitley, who had urged Modi to keep him out ot the ministry on health grounds.

In a major surprise, Sushma Swaraj, one of the senior-most leaders of the BJP, was among seven ministers of the previous council of ministers to be dropped. 

The 67-year-old Swaraj who has held key positions in the party and its governments since decades was conspicuous by her absence in the new Cabinet.

Also missing in the new Council of Ministers were Suresh Prabhu, J P Nadda, Mahesh Sharma, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Jayant Sinha. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha has been dropped from the Modi 2.0 cabinet. Anant Kumar Hegde from Karnataka who was minister of state for skill development was also dropped.

Although the reasons for Swaraj's omission were not immediately clear, the main reason possibly could be her ill-health.

As many as 20 members who took the oath are first-time ministers, including Suresh Angadi and Prahlad Joshi from Karnataka.

Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and D V Sadananda Gowda occupied the first four seats next to that of Prime Minister Modi in the front row.

The ceremony was attended by heads of government and representatives from BIMSTEC countries, besides Prime Minister of Mauritius and President of Kyrgyzstan.

The following are names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:

Cabinet Ministers

1. Rajnath Singh

2. Amit Shah

3. Nitin Gadkari

4. D V 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. 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

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. Santosh Kumar Gangwar

2. Rao Inderjit Singh

3. Shripad Yesso Naik

4. Jitendra Singh

5. R K Singh

6. Kiren Rijiju

7. Prahlad Singh Patel

8. Hardeep Singh Puri

9. Mansukh Mandaviya

Ministers of State

1. Faggan Singh Kulaste

2. Ashwini Kumar Choubey

3. Arjun Ram Meghwal

4. General (Retd) V K 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

Live updates

The new Modi government will include 25 cabinet ministers, 24 ministers of state and 9 ministers of state with independent charge.

Swearing-in ceremony comes to an end with Nation Anthem.

Deboshree Chowdhury from West Bengal takes oath as cabinet minister.

Pratap Chandra Sarangi, known for his austere way of living, from Odisha takes oath as minister.

Rameshwar Telli sworn in as minister. He is a two-time BJP MP from Assam.

Som Prakash sworn in as minister.

Renuka Singh sworn in as minister for first time. She is a BJP leader from Chhattisgarh.

V Muraleedharan takes oath as minister. He is a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra, and is a close aide of Amit Shah.

Ratanlal Kattaria takes oath as minister. He is a BJP leader from Haryana.

Nityanand Rai, BJP Bihar chief takes oath as minister.

Suresh Angadi from Karnataka sworn in as minister for first time. A four-time Lok Sabha MP, he is the MP from Belagavi.

Anurag Thakur sworn in as minister. He is the son of former Himachal Pradesh CM Prem Kumar Dhumal.

Sanjay Dhotre from Maharashtra takes oath as minister for first time.

Sanjeev Balyan, who defeated RLD chief Ajit Singh, takes oath as minister.

Singer-actor Babul Supriyo takes oath as minister. He was previously minister of state for heavy industries.

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti takes oath. She was minister of state for food processing previously.

A total of 54 ministers including 24 cabinet ministers are being sworn in: Sources

Parshottam Rupala whoe was minister of state for panchayat raj in the previous government, takes oath.

BJP Telangana chief Kishan Reddy takes oath as minister.

Krishna Pal Gurjar takes oath as minister.

Dadarao Patil takes oath as minister

V K Singh takes oath as minister. He was minister of state for external minister in the previous government.

Arjun Meghwal sworn in as minister. He was minister of state for water resources in the last government.

Ashwini Kumar Choubey takes oath as minister.

Faggan Singh sworn in as minister. He has previously served as minister of state for health and family affairs.

Among those sworn-in, 24 including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Sadananda Gowda, Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Singh Tomar, S Jaishanker and others will be cabinet ministers.

Mansukh L Mandaviya takes oath. He is the Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat.

Hardeep Singh Puri sworn in as minister. A former bureaucrat, he served as minister for housing and urban affairs in the previous government.

R K Singh takes oath as minister. He was minister of power in the previous government.

Prahlad Patel takes oath as minister. He was minister of state for coal during the Vajpayee government.

Kiren Rijiju sworn in as minister. He was minister of state for home previously.

Jitendra Singh takes oath as minister. He was minister of state for PMO, North-east development in the last term.

Sripad Naik from Goa sworn in as minister. He represents North Goa and was minister for Ayush in the last government.

Rao Inderjit Singh takes oath as minister.

Santhosh Gangwar sworn in as minister. He was minister of state for labour in the last government.

Gajendra Shekhawat takes oath as minister. He was minister of state for agriculture in the previous government.

Giriraj Singh sworn in as minister. He was the minister for small and medium scale industries in the earlier Modi government.

Dr Arvind Sawant of Shiv Sena takes oath. He won from Mumbai South.

Mahendranath Pandey sworn in as minister.

Prahlad Joshi from Karnataka takes oath as cabinet minister. This is the first time he is taking up a national post. He is the former president of Karnataka BJP.

Muqhtar Abbas Naqvi takes oath as cabinet minister.

Dharmendra Pradhan, who previously served as petroleum minister, takes oath as cabinet minister.

Piyush Goyal, who was railway minister and then stand-in finance minister, sworn in as cabinet minister.

Prakash Javadekar, who was HRD minister in previous government, takes oath as cabinet minister.

Dr Harshvardhan takes oath as cabinet minister. He served as minister for science when NDA came to power in 2014.

Smriti Irani sworn-in as cabinet minister. She defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi. She has served as textiles minister and also as HRD minister in the previous government.

Arjun Munda, former CM of Jharkhand, takes oath as cabinet minister. 

Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal, former CM of Uttarakhand, sworn-in as cabinet minister.

Dr Subramaniam Jaishanker takes oath. He served as foreign secretary in the previous government.

Thawar Chand Gehlot takes oath as cabinet minister. He is the Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who was the minister for food processing previously, sworn in.

Ravi Shankar Prasad takes oath as cabinet minister. He was the minister for law and justice in the previous government.

According to reports, Maneka Gandhi has been appointed pro-tem speaker.

Narendra Singh Tomar sworn in as minister. 

Ram Vilas Paswan takes oath as minister. He was the minister for consumer affairs previously.

Nirmala Seetharamaan sworn in as minister. She was the defence minister in the previous government.

Sadananda Gowda from Karnataka takes oath as minister. He was previously the railway minister and then the minister for planning and statistics.

Rajnath Singh takes oath as cabinet minister, followed by Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari.

Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister.