Live: 57 ministers sworn in as PM Modi begins second term

Those who took oath of office as cabinet ministers are — Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Jairam Gadkari, D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ramvilas Paswan, Narendra Singh Tomar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Thanwar Chand Gehlot, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Arjun Munda, Smriti Irani, Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Prahlad Joshi, Mahendra nath pandey, Arvind Sawant, Giriraj Singh and Gajendra Shekhawat.

Those who took oath as minister of state with independent charge are:

Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Rao Inderjit Singh, Shripad Yesso Naik, Jitendra Singh Kiren Rijiju, Prahalad Singh Patel, Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri Mansukh L Mandaviya.

Those who took oath as minister of state: 

Faggan Singh Kulaste, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Arjun Ram Meghwal, V K Singh, Krishan Pal, Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, G Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala, Ramdas Athawale, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Babul Supriyo, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao, Anurag Singh Thakur, Angadi Suresh Channabasappa, Nityanand Rai, Rattan Lal Kataria, V Muraleedharan, Renuka Singh Saruta, Som Parkash, Rameswar Teli, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Kailash Choudhary, Debasree Chaudhuri.

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A man with avowed aim of having the BJP rule from 'panchayat to Parliament', Shah has built his party into a formidable army that has been forever marching on since he took charge as its president in July 2014.

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Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar takes oath as Cabinet Minister in the Narendra Modi government. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat who served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018. 

NDA leaders Nitin Gadkari, DV Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan, Narendra Singh Tomar, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsimrat Kaur Badal took oath as Cabinet Minister in the Narendra Modi government.

Amit Shah takes oath as cabinet Minister in the new Narendra Modi government.

Formerly the Minister of Home Affairs of India, Rajnath Singh, one of the senior party leaders took oatch of office.

Narendra Modi takes oath as the Prime Minister of India for a second term.

Reports say former foreign secretary S Jaishankar is likely to be sworn in as a minister in the Narendra Modi government today.

Actor Rajinikanth and his wife Latha arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Probable ministers who will be taking oath have just left from PM-designate Narendra Modi's residence. They will now head to the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the swearing-in ceremony.

Guests have started arriving at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the Prime Minister's swearing-in ceremony. Narendra Modi and his Cabinet of Ministers will be sworn in at 7 pm. 

The swearing-in ceremony in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan is expected to be grand affair with about 8,000 guests, including leaders from the BIMSTEC countries, opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, chief ministers, corporate honchos and film stars, watching as President Ram Nath Kovind administers the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year-old Modi and his ministerial colleagues.

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Earlier in the morning, the prime minister held a final round of consultations with BJP president Amit Shah to give shape to his council of ministers before sending the list to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
 

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited Rajghat and paid tribute to 'Father of Nation' Mahatma Gandhi. He visited Sadaiv Atal Samadhi and paid tribute to late ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
 

Narendra Modi, Amit Shah pays tribute to BJP veteran late Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Sadaiv Atal Samadhi, before being sworn in as PM for the second consecutive term. (PTI Photo)

Illuminated Rashtrapati Bhawan on the eve of the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet which will be held at 7 pm today in New Delhi. More than 20 leaders are likely to take oath along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.(ANI Photo)