NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of India for his third consecutive term, along with 72 ministers, at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to the Prime Minister and his ministerial colleagues. 

The Prime Minister posted on X: "Took oath as Prime Minister at the ceremony earlier this evening. I look forward to serving 140 crore Indians and working with the Council of Ministers to take India to new heights of progress.

Congratulations to all those who have taken oath today. This team of Ministers is a great blend of youth and experience, and we will leave no stone unturned in improving the lives of people. I am grateful to all the foreign dignitaries who joined the swearing in ceremony. India will always work closely with our valued partners in pursuit of human progress."

The Council of Ministers will have a broad representation of social groups, including 27 Other Backward Classes (OBC), ten Scheduled Castes (SC), five Scheduled Tribes (ST), and five minorities. A record 18 senior Ministers will be heading major ministries. There were also a few notable names missing from the new Cabinet.

Here is the complete list of 72 Ministers who took oath with PM Modi:

Cabinet Ministers

Shri Raj Nath Singh

Shri Amit Shah

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda

Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Shri Manohar Lal

Shri H. D. Kumaraswamy

Shri Piyush Goyal

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi

Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh

Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

Dr. Virendra Kumar

Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu

Shri Pralhad Joshi

Shri Jual Oram

Shri Giriraj Singh

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia

Shri Bhupender Yadav

Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Smt. Annpurna Devi

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Shri Hardeep Singh Puri

Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

Shri G. Kishan Reddy

Shri Chirag Paswan

Shri C R Patil

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Rao Inderjit Singh

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal

Shri Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao

Shri Jayant Chaudhary

Ministers of State

Shri Jitin Prasada

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

Shri Pankaj Chaudhary

Shri Krishan Pal

Shri Ramdas Athawale

Shri Ram Nath Thakur

Shri Nityanand Rai

Smt. Anupriya Patel

Shri V. Somanna

Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani

Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel

Sushri Sobha Karandlaje

Shri Kirtivardhan Singh

Shri B. L. Verma

Shri Shantanu Thakur

Shri Suresh Gopi

Dr. L. Murugan

Shri Ajay Tamta

Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar

Shri Kamlesh Paswan

Shri Bhagirath Choudhary

Shri Satish Chandra Dubey

Shri Sanjay Seth

Shri Ravneet Singh

Shri Durgadas Uikey

Smt. Raksha Nikhil Khadse

Shri Sukanta Majumdar

Smt. Savitri Thakur

Shri Tokhan Sahu

Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary

Shri Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma

Shri Harsh Malhotra

Smt. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya

Shri Murlidhar Mohol

Shri George Kurian

Shri Pabitra Margherita

President of Sri Lanka, H.E. Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe; President of Maldives, H.E. Dr. Mohamed Muizzu; Vice-President of Seychelles, H.E. Mr. Ahmed Afif; Prime Minister of Bangladesh, H.E. Sheikh Hasina; Prime Minister of Mauritius, H.E. Mr. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth; Prime Minister of Nepal, H.E. Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’; and Prime Minister of Bhutan, H.E. Mr. Tshering Tobgay, atteneded the oath taking ceremony.