Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third successive term, matching former PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of three consecutive terms. The ceremony, attended by dignitaries from the Indian Ocean Region and neighboring countries, took place at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Amidst the ceremonial proceedings, an unexpected visitor—a mysterious animal spotted in the background during MP Durga Das’s oath signing—sparked a flurry of social media speculation about whether it was a leopard, or simply a domestic pet like a cat or dog.
President Murmu swears in PM Modi and expanded cabinet, including new ministers and coalition partners
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to PM Modi and his new cabinet, which includes thirty cabinet ministers, 36 Ministers of State (MoS), and five MoS with independent charge, representing the BJP and its coalition partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The newly sworn-in Cabinet Ministers are Raj Nath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Manohar Lal, HD Kumaraswamy, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Pralhad Joshi, Jual Oram, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annpurna Devi, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, G Kishan Reddy, Chirag Paswan, and C R Patil.
Ministers of State with independent charge include Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao, and Jayant Chaudhary.
The new Ministers of State are Jitin Prasada, Shripad Yesso Naik, Pankaj Chaudhary, Krishan Pal, Ramdas Athawale, Ram Nath Thakur, Nityanand Rai, Anupriya Patel, V. Somanna, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, SP Singh Baghel, Sushri Sobha Karandlaje, Kirtivardhan Singh, BL Verma, Shantanu Thakur, Suresh Gopi, 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, and Pabitra Margherita.