Modi takes oath as India’s PM For 3rd term; 30 Cabinet Ministers In His Team
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with the members of his new cabinet, is set to take oath at a swearing-in ceremony scheduled for today, June 9, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Modi will be the first three-term Prime Minister after Congress stalwart Jawaharlal Nehru. Over 65 ministers are likely to take the oath, going by the visual of the meeting Modi held with his likely council of ministers. The decisions on the new cabinet were taken after a meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence yesterday.
Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S Jaishankar, who held home, defence, finance and external affairs ministries respectively in the outgoing government, besides its other senior members such as Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Hardeep Singh Puri will be part of the new government.
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his Bhutanese counterpart Tshering Tobgay arrived in Delhi on Sunday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate.
The other world leaders attending the ceremony are Bangladesh President Sheikh Hasina, Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.