(THE NEWSMAN OF INDIA.COM)
Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi took oath today for a third straight term as the head of a coalition government Modi, following Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, JP Nadda also took oath here alongside other Cabinet Ministers. Newly-elected PM Narendra Modi is all set to become the first person after former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to be elected as PM for the third consecutive term.

Cabinet and state ministers who took oath are: Amit Shah, Mansukh Mandaviya, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Jitendra Singh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Hardeep Singh Puri, H D Kumaraswamy, Chirag Paswan, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju, Giriraj Singh, Jayant Chaudhary, Annamalai, ML Khattar, Suresh Gopi, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Ramnath Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Bandi Sanjay, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Pralhad Joshi, Chandrashekhar Choudhary, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Jitin Prasad, Pankaj Chaudhary, B L Verma, Lalan Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Anupriya Patel, Pratap Rao Jadhav, Annapurna Devi, Raksha Khadse, Shobha Karandlaje, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Rao Inderjeet Singh, Ram Das Athawale, and Harsh Malhotra.

Nearly 9,000 people were estimated to be present at the forecourts of the Rashtrapati Bhavan to witness the swearing-in ceremony.