PM Modi Oath Ceremony: India has got a new government five days after the results of the Lok Sabha elections became clear. Narendra Modi has taken oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive time. After Modi, Rajnath Singh took oath. Amit Shah came third to take oath. The order of taking oath was the same in 2019 as well. A total of 72 ministers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have taken oath. These include 30 cabinet ministers, 5 ministers of state with independent charge and 36 ministers of state. These include about 21 upper caste, 27 OBC, 10 Dalit, 5 tribal and 5 minority caste MPs.
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| 1. | Narendra Modi | Age 73 years, took oath as the Prime Minister of the country for the third consecutive time. He became an MP by winning the Lok Sabha election for the third time from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 2. | Rajnath Singh | Age 72 years, has been the Home and Defense Minister of the country. He has also held the post of Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and National President of BJP. |
| 3. | Amit Shah | Age 59 years, has been the Home Minister of the country and BJP President. He has been MP from Gandhinagar for the second consecutive time. He has been a Gujarat MLA four times. He is also the former Minister of State for Home in Gujarat. |
| 4. | Nitin Gadkari | Age 67 years, has been a cabinet minister in the Modi government since 2014. He is the former national president of BJP. He has become an MP for the third consecutive time after winning the election from Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
| 5. | JP Nadda | Age 63 years, he is the national president of BJP. He was the health minister in the Modi government in 2014. He has also been a cabinet minister in the Himachal government. |
| 6. | Shivraj Singh Chauhan | Age 65 years, took oath as a cabinet minister for the first time. He is the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and has won the Lok Sabha elections from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 7. | Nirmala sitharaman | Age 64 years, was the Finance Minister in the previous government. Is a Rajya Sabha MP. |
| 8. | S Jaishankar | Age 69 years, became the foreign minister of the country after retiring from the post of Foreign Secretary. Has been elected as a Rajya Sabha MP twice. |
| 9. | Manohar Lal Khattar | Age 70 years, took oath as a cabinet minister for the first time. Was the Chief Minister of Haryana for 9 years. He is a former pracharak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has been elected MP for the first time from Karnal, Haryana. |
| 10. | HD Kumaraswamy | Age 65 years, former Chief Minister of Karnataka. Son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and belongs to the Vokkaliga community. He is a leader of NDA ally Janata Dal Secular . |
| 11. | Piyush Goyal | Age 60 years, has been the leader of the house in Rajya Sabha, has been elected MP from Lok Sabha for the first time. Before this, he became MP as a member of Rajya Sabha and was a minister in previous governments. Has been elected MP from Mumbai North seat of Maharashtra. |
| 12. | dharmendra pradhan | Age 54 years, has been the Education Minister in the previous government. Has won the Lok Sabha elections from Sambalpur, Odisha. |
| 13. | Jitan Ram Manjhi | Age 78 years, leader of Hindustani Awam Morcha, an ally of NDA alliance . He has been the former Chief Minister of Bihar. Comes from the Dalit community and has become an MP for the first time. |
| 14. | Lallan Singh | Age 69 years, he is the leader of NDA’s ally Janata Dal United . He is the former national president of JDU and comes from Bhumihar community. He has been elected MP from Munger. |
| 15. | Sarbananda Sonowal | Age 62 years, former Chief Minister of Assam and comes from the tribal community. Has been a minister in the previous government. Has won the Lok Sabha elections from Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 16 | Virender Khatik | Age 70 years, has been a minister in the previous government. Has been elected MP for the eighth time. This time he has reached the Parliament by getting elected from Tikamgarh seat of Madhya Pradesh. He is considered a big Dalit leader in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 17. | K Rammohan Naidu | Age 36 years, MP from Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh, son of former minister Yerran Naidu. This time he is the youngest cabinet minister. He is the leader of the Telugu Desam Party, an ally of the NDA. |
| 18. | Prahlad Joshi | Age 61 years, has won the Lok Sabha elections for the fifth time from Dharwad, Karnataka. He is the former president of Karnataka BJP and has been a minister in the previous government. |
| 19. | Juel Oram | Age 63 years, elected MP from Sundargarh, Odisha. Has been a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Elected MP for the sixth time. Known as a big tribal face. |
| 20. | Giriraj Singh | Age 71 years, has been a minister in the previous government. Has been elected MP from Begusarai, Bihar for the third consecutive time. Has also been a minister in the Bihar government. |
| 21. | Ashwini Vaishnav | Age 54 years, has been a minister in the previous government. He resigned from IAS and entered politics and is currently a Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha. |
| 22. | Jyotiraditya Scindia | Age 53 years, joined BJP from Congress in 2020 and was made a cabinet minister. Won Lok Sabha elections for the 5th time. He is an MP from Guna seat of Madhya Pradesh. |
| 23. | Bhupendra Yadav | Age 55 years, he has won the Lok Sabha MP election for the first time from Alwar, Rajasthan. He was the Environment Minister in the previous government. He is known as a strategist of BJP. |
| 24. | Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Age 57 years, won the Lok Sabha elections from Jodhpur, Rajasthan for the second time. Was the Jal Shakti Minister in the previous government. |
| 25. | Annapurna devi | Age 54 years, MP from Koderma, Jharkhand and comes from OBC community. She was Minister of State for Education in the previous government and has won the Lok Sabha elections for the second time. |
| 26. | Kiren Rijiju | Age 52 years, won the Lok Sabha elections from Arunachal West seat. He has been a minister in the previous government and is one of the big faces of BJP in the North East. |
| 27. | Hardeep Puri | Age 72 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh and has been a minister in the previous government. Entered politics after retirement from IFS. |
| 28. | mansukh mandaviya | Age 51 years, won the Lok Sabha election for the first time from Porbandar, Gujarat. Was the Health Minister in the previous government. |
| 29. | G Kishan Reddy | Age 64 years, has won the Lok Sabha elections for the second consecutive time from Secunderabad seat of Telangana. Was the Minister of Tourism and Culture in the previous government. |
| 30. | chirag paswan | Age 41 years, MP from Hajipur, Bihar. Leader of NDA’s ally Lok Janshakti Party- Ram Vilas. Took oath as Union Minister for the first time. |
| 31. | CR Patil | Age 59 years, President of Gujarat BJP and elected MP from Navsari seat. Won the election for the fourth consecutive time. Made the record of the biggest victory in 2019. |
These are the ministers of state
| 1. | Rao Inderjit Singh (Independent Charge) | Age 74 years, MP from Gurgaon, Haryana. He was the Minister of State for Planning in the previous government. He joined BJP from Congress during the 2014 elections |
| 2. | Jitendra Singh (Independent Charge) | Age 67 years, has won the Lok Sabha elections for the third consecutive time from Udhampur seat of Jammu and Kashmir. He has also been a Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the previous government. |
| 3. | Arjun Ram Meghwal (Independent Charge) | Age 70 years, MP from Bikaner, Rajasthan. He has been the Law Minister in the previous government. He is the Dalit face of Rajasthan and was an IAS officer before joining politics. |
| 4. | Pratap Rao Jadhav (Independent Charge) | Age 63 years, MP from Buldhana seat of Maharashtra and has been a minister in the Maharashtra government. He has won the Lok Sabha elections for the third time and has become a minister at the Centre for the first time. He is the leader of NDA’s ally Shiv Sena (Shinde faction). |
| 5. | Jayant Chaudhary (Independent Charge) | Age 45 years, President of NDA’s ally party Rashtriya Lok Dal . He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh and will become a minister at the Centre for the first time. He is the grandson of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. |
| 6. | Jitin Prasada | Age 50 years, MP from Pilibhit seat of Uttar Pradesh. He joined BJP from Congress in 2021. He was also a minister in the Manmohan Singh government. |
| 7. | Shripad Naik | Age 61 years, has won the Lok Sabha elections from North Goa seat for the sixth consecutive time. Has been a minister in the previous government too. |
| 8. | Pankaj Chowdhary | Age 59 years, won the Lok Sabha elections from Maharajganj seat of Uttar Pradesh. Comes from OBC community and has also been a minister in the previous government. |
| 9. | Krishan Pal Gurjar | Age 67 years, MP from Faridabad, Haryana. He was Minister of State for Energy in the previous government and has won the election for the third consecutive time. |
| 10. | Ramdas Athawalay | Age 64 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra. He is the head of NDA’s ally Republican Party of India . He has also been a minister in the previous government. |
| 11. | Ramnath Thakur | Age 74 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar. Son of Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur. Leader of NDA’s ally party Janata Dal United and comes from extremely backward class. |
| 12. | Nityanand Rai | Age 58 years, MP from Ujiarpur seat of Bihar. He was also the Minister of State for Home in the previous government and has won the Lok Sabha elections for the third consecutive time. He is the former president of Bihar BJP. |
| 13. | Anupriya patel | Age 43 years, MP from Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat of Uttar Pradesh. President of NDA’s ally party Apna Dal (Sonewal) . Has been a minister in the previous government. |
| 14. | V Somanna | Age 73 years, MP from Tumkur seat of Karnataka. He has become a minister at the Centre for the first time. |
| 15. | P Chandrasekhar | Age 48 years, he is the richest MP of the country. He has won the Lok Sabha elections for the first time from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. He is becoming a minister at the Centre for the first time. He is the leader of the Telugu Desam Party, an ally of the NDA . |
| 16. | SP Singh Baghel | Age 64 years, won the election from Agra seat of Uttar Pradesh. Comes from Dalit community and has been a minister in the previous government. He is a one-time Rajya Sabha and five-time Lok Sabha MP. |
| 17. | Shobha Karandlaje | Age 57 years, MP from Bengaluru North seat of Karnataka. She was Minister of State for Agriculture in the previous government. She belongs to Vokkaliga community. |
| 18. | Kirti Vardhan Singh | Age 58 years, MP from Gonda, Uttar Pradesh. He is becoming a minister for the first time. He is a fifth time MP. He is considered a big leader of BJP in Purvanchal. |
| 19. | BL Verma | Age 62 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh. Became MP for the first time in 2020 and was made Minister of State in the previous government. Comes from OBC community. |
| 20. | Shantanu Thakur | Age 41 years, elected MP from Bangaon seat of West Bengal. Comes from Matua community and has also been a Minister of State in the previous government. |
| 21. | suresh gopi | Age 65 years, MP from Thrissur seat of Kerala. He is the first BJP MP from Kerala. He is a popular Malayalam film actor. He is becoming a minister for the first time. |
| 22. | L Murugam | Age 47 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh. Comes from Dalit community and originally belongs to Tamil Nadu. Has been a minister in the previous government as well. The party had given him ticket from Nilgiri against A Raja, but he lost. |
| 23. | Ajay Tamta | Age 53 years, elected MP from Almora, Uttarakhand. He has become a minister at the Centre for the first time. He is a Dalit face of Uttarakhand. |
| 24. | Bandi Sanjay Kumar | Age 52 years, MP from Karimnagar, Telangana. He has become a minister for the first time. He is the national general secretary of BJP and has been the Telangana BJP chief. |
| 25. | kamlesh paswan | Age 57 years, elected MP from Bansgaon in Uttar Pradesh. Won the election for the fourth consecutive time and is becoming a minister for the first time. |
| 26. | Bhagirath Chowdhary | Age 60 years, elected MP from Ajmer, Rajasthan. Comes from Jat community and has been made minister for the first time. |
| 27. | Satish Dubey | Age 49 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar. He was elected Lok Sabha MP in 2014 and has been made a minister at the Centre for the first time. He has been an MLA thrice. |
| 28. | sanjay seth | Age 64 years, MP from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Before joining politics, he was an industrialist and has won the election for the second consecutive time. |
| 29. | Ravneet Bittu | Age 49 years, currently not a member of any House. He is the grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh and has been a Lok Sabha MP thrice. Just before the elections, he left Congress and joined BJP. |
| 30. | Durgadas Uikey | Age 60 years, Lok Sabha MP from Betul, Madhya Pradesh. Comes from tribal society |
| 31. | Raksha Khadse | Age 37 years, elected MP from Raver seat of Maharashtra. Daughter of Maharashtra’s powerful leader Eknath Khadse. Made a minister for the first time. |
| 32. | Sukanta Majumdar | Age 44 years, elected MP from Balurghat seat of West Bengal. President of West Bengal BJP and has won the Lok Sabha elections for the second consecutive time. Being made a minister for the first time. |
| 33. | Savitri Thakur | Age 45 years, Lok Sabha MP from Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. She has won the election for the second time and comes from the tribal community. She started her political career from the Zila Panchayat. Now she has become a minister for the first time. |
| 34. | tokhan sahu | Age 53, Tokhan Sahu has been elected as a Lok Sabha MP from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. |
| 35. | Rajbhushan Nishad | Age 46 years, MP from Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He joined BJP a few days ago. He belongs to OBC community. |
| 36. | Bhupati Raju Srinivas Varma | Age 56 years, MP from Narasapuram in Andhra Pradesh. Won Lok Sabha elections for the first time. Started politics as a booth worker. Has been made a minister for the first time. |
| 37. | Harsh Malhotra | Age 60 years, elected as Lok Sabha MP from East Delhi. He has become MP for the first time and has got a place in the Council of Ministers for the first time. He started his political career as a councillor and was also the Mayor of East Delhi. |
| 38. | Nimuben Bambhaniya | Age 57 years, won from Bhavnagar seat of Gujarat. She has been made a minister for the first time. |
| 39. | Muralidhar Mohol | Age 49 years, elected as Lok Sabha MP from Pune, Maharashtra. Has been the Mayor of Pune. Won the election for the first time and has been made a minister. |
| 40. | George Kurien | Age 63 years, not a member of any House. General Secretary of Kerala BJP and comes from Christian community. Former Vice President of Minority Commission. |
| 41. | Pabitra Margarita | Age 49 years, Rajya Sabha MP from Assam. He is becoming a minister at the centre for the first time. He has been an actor in local films. |
Know The Caste Equation
Upper castes- Amit Shah, S. Jaishankar, Mansukh Mandaviya, Rajnath Singh, Jitin Prasad, Jayant Chaudhary, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ravneet Bittu, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Manohar Lal Khattar, Jitendra Singh, Gajend Singh Shekhawat, Sanjay Seth, Ram Mohan Naidu, Sukanta Majumdar, Prahlad Joshi, J.P. Nadda, Giriraj Singh, Lallan Singh, Satish Chandra Dubey are included.
OBC- CR Patil, Pankaj Chaudhary, Anupriya Patel, BL Verma, Raksha Khadse, Pratap Rao Jadhav, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Rao Indrajit Singh, Krishnapal Gurjar, Bhupendra Yadav, Bhagirath Chaudhary, Annapurna Devi, Shobha Karandlaje, HD Kumaraswamy, Nityanand Rai are included.
Dalits- SP Baghel, Kamlesh Paswan, Ajay Tamta, Ramdas Athawale, Virendra Kumar, Savitri Thakur, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Ramnath Thakur are included.
Tribals- Jual Oram, Shripad Yesso Naik, Sarbananda Sonowal are included.
