Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (June 10, 2024) assumed office for the third straight term when he signed his first file which was related to the welfare of farmers.
“After being sworn in as Prime Minister for the 3rd time, PM Narendra Modi signs his first file authorising release of 17th instalment of PM Kisan Nidhi,” read a statement issued by the Indian government.
The file is expected to benefit 9.3 crore (93,000,000) farmers and distribute around INR 20,000 crore (USD 2,395,080,000).
After signing the file, PM Modi said, “Ours is a government fully committed to Kisan Kalyan. It is therefore fitting that the first file signed on taking charge is related to farmer welfare. We want to keep working even more for the farmers and the agriculture sector in the times to come.”
In a grand ceremony held in India’s iconic Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, attended by foreign dignitaries, business personalities and showbiz stars, Narendra Modi took oath on Sunday evening as the Prime Minister of India, creating a historic moment in the country as he became the first non-Congress leader to return to power for a third term.
This is a rare feat in Indian politics; only the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had achieved it.
Modi took oath along with 71 ministers, including 30 of Cabinet rank. Five ministers with Independent charge, 36 Ministers of State were also sworn in. There are nine new faces in the cabinet.
Cabinet Ministers
- Raj Nath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Jagat Prakash Nadda
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Manohar Lal
- HD Kumaraswamy
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Jitan Ram Manjhi
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh
- Sarbananda Sonowal
- Dr Virendra Kumar
- Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu
- Pralhad Joshi
- Jual Oram
- Giriraj Singh
- AshwiniVaishnaw
- Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
- Bhupender Yadav
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Annpurna Devi
- Kiren Rijiju
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Dr Mansukh Mandaviya
- G Kishan Reddy
- Chirag Paswan
- CR Patil
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Dr Jitendra Singh
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao
- Jayant Chaudhary
Ministers of State
- Jitin Prasada
- Shripad Yesso Naik
- Pankaj Chaudhary
- Krishan Pal
- Ramdas Athawale
- Ram Nath Thakur
- Nityanand Rai
- Anupriya Patel
- V Somanna
- Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
- Prof SP Singh Baghel
- Shobha Karandlaje
- Kirtivardhan Singh
- BL Verma
- Shantanu Thakur
- Suresh Gopi
- Dr L Murugan
- Ajay Tamta
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar
- Kamlesh Paswan
- Bhagirath Choudhary
- Satish Chandra Dubey
- Sanjay Seth
- Ravneet Singh
- Durgadas Uikey
- Raksha Nikhil Khadse
- Sukanta Majumdar
- Savitri Thakur
- Tokhan Sahu
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary
- Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
- Harsh Malhotra
- Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
- Murlidhar Mohol
- George Kurian
- Pabitra Margherita
Narendra Modi returned for a rare third consecutive term in office with his allies, but fell short of an absolute majority for his BJP (240 seats as against 272 required), in an election that gave a new lease of life to a Congress-led disparate opposition bloc- INDIA- as the anti-Modi union halted the saffron juggernaut to under 300.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Modi’s BJP garnered 293 seats while the opposition INDIA bloc bagged 234 in the 543-member Parliament.
The seven-phased Indian general polls witnessed improved results by the Congress-led INDIA alliance which altered all predictions made by exit-polls.