Narayan Rane, former chief minister of Maharashtra, was the first minister to take oath as a Cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government at a ceremony held at Ashoka Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. He was followed by another former chief minister Sarbanda Sonowal.
A total of 43 ministers took oath in the first major expansion of the Modi government 2.0. The reshuffle, meant to make the ministry more inclusive and to give better representation to OBCs, women and various states, started at 6.15 pm soon after Narendra Modi and senior BJP leaders arrived at the presidential palace.
Among the allies inducted in the Cabinet are Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal and Pashu Pati Nath Paras of the LJP, who recently ousted his nephew Paras Paswan, son of Ram Vilas Paswan, to take over the party.
The reshuffle was preceded by a slew of resignations by ministers, including Harshvardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Prakash Javadekar and Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Here is the full list of ministers in the sequence they took oath in:
Cabinet ministers
1. Narayan Rane
2. Sarbananda Sonowal
3. Dr Virendra Kumar
4. Jyotiraditya Scindia
5. Ramchandra Prasad singh (JD-U)
6. Ashwini Vaishnaw
7. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras (LJP)
8. Kiren Rijiju
9. RK Singh
10. Hardeep Singh Puri
11. Mansukh Mandaviya
12. Bhupendra Yadav
13. Parshottam Rupala
14. G Kishan Reddy
15. Anurag Singh Thakur
Ministers of State
16. Pankaj Choudhary
17. Anupriya Singh Patel (Apna Dal)
18. Dr Satya Pal Singh Baghel
19. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
20. Shobha Karandlaje
21. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
22. Darshana Vikram Jardosh
23. Meenakshi Lekhi
24. Annapurna Devi
25. A Narayanaswamy
26 Kaushal Kishore
27. Ajay Bhatt
28.B. L. Verma
29. Ajay Kumar
30.Chauhan Devusinh
31.Bhagwanth Khuba
32.Kapil Moreshwar Patil
33.Pratima Bhoumik
34.Dr. Subhas Sarkar
35.Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
36.Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
37.Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar
38.Bishweswar Tudu
39.Shantanu Thakur
40.Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
41.John Barla
43.Nisith Pramanik
