PM Modi will be sworn in for a third term with 72 Ministers. However this time he is heavily reliant upon support from allies with his party, BJP, winning 240 seats – falling 32 short of the 272-majority mark.
Modi was in a white and white with Navy blue Modi coat. Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar’s Janta Dal United (JDU) are the coalition partners.
People shouted Modi -Modi slogans after taking oath.
43 Mantris with three term experience sworn in. The Ministers will have representation from 24 states.
With the incoming Prime Minister yet to announce the makeup of his cabinet, the ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan will be keenly watched when around 50-odd ministers-to-be take the oath on the constitution.
Industrialists Gautam Adani, Mukesh Ambani, superstars Shah Rukh Khan, Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar are among the guests attending PM-designate Narendra Modi’s oath ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday.
