Narendra Modi sworn in as prime minister with a 71-member council of ministers
Modi took oath of office and secrecy for his third consecutive term.
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Narendra Modi was on Sunday sworn in as India’s prime minister for the third consecutive term within a 71-member council of ministers.
The oath of office and secrecy was administered by President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Several MPs, including those from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Democratic Alliance partners, also took oath as Union ministers.
The council has 30 cabinet-rank ministers, 33 ministers of state and five ministers of state with independent charge.
The oath-taking ceremony was attended by foreign leaders including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Nepal’s Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, Mauritius’ Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Maldives’ Mohamed Muizzu and Ahmed Afif, the vice president of Seychelles.
Others who were invited to the ceremony were Padma awardees, prominent personalities from several fields, individuals mentioned in Modi’s monthly radio show Mann Ki Baat, the 12 rat-hole miners who played a crucial role in rescuing 41 workers trapped inside an Uttarakhand tunnel in November, labourers who helped construct the new Parliament building and the workers who built the Vande Bharat trains.
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