The 15th Prime Minister of India
7:30 pm GM Siddeshwara, Manoj Sinha, Nihal Chand, Upendra Kushwaha, Pon Radhakrishnan, Kiren Rijiju, Krishan Pal Gujjar, Dr Sanjeev Baliyan, Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasav, Rao Saheb Danve,Vishnu Deo Sai, Sudarshan Bhagat take oath as Ministers of State.7:10 pm Gen (Retd) VK Singh, Rao Inderjit Singh, Santosh Gangwar, Shripad Naik, Dharmendra Pradhan, Sarbananda Sonowal, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goel, Dr Jitendra Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman take oath as Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
6:55 pm Radha Mohan Singh, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Smriti Irani, Dr Harsh Vardhan also took oath to cabinet ministers.
6:45 pm Uma Bharti, Najma Heptullah,, Gopinath Munde, Ramvilas Paswan, Kalraj Mishra, Maneka Gandhi, Ananth Kumar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Anant Geete, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Narendra Singh Tomar, Jual Oram also sworn in as cabinet ministers who will be given a lots of responsibilities in various sectors as State Ministers.
6:25 pm Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, DV Sadananda Gowda take oath as cabinet ministers who are supposed to form a team-Modi for the nation development.
6:17 pm Sushma Swaraj takes oath as a cabinet minister to handle foreign issues of India.
6:15 pm BJP president Rajnath Singh takes oath of office and secrecy after Narendra Modi who will shoulder responsinbities of the nation as Home Minister
6.12 Narendra Modi takes oath of office and secrecy as India's 15th Prime Minister today.
He took the oath in in Hindi.
English translation of the oath is following:
I, Narendra Damodardas Modi, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India, that I will faithfully and conscientiously discharge my duties as prime minister for the Union and that I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.
I, Narendra Damodardas Modi, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will not directly or indirectly communicate or reveal to any person or persons any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as prime minister for the Union except as may be required for the due discharge of my duties as such Minister.