On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third consecutive term, alongside 72 new cabinet ministers. He is the first three-term Prime Minister since Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru. With over 8,000 guests at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Modi and his council of ministers officially commenced the NDA’s third tenure.

Alongside Modi, senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, and Amit Shah were also sworn in as cabinet ministers. Party president J.P. Nadda rejoined the cabinet after five years, highlighting the Prime Minister’s focus on continuity and experience in his third term.

Former Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, took the oath as a cabinet minister in the new Narendra Modi-led NDA government. Alongside Singh, BJP leader and Gandhinagar MP Amit Shah also took the oath as a cabinet minister.

Prominent BJP leaders such as Nitin Gadkari, J.P. Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, S. Jaishankar, Manohar Lal Khattar, H.D. Kumaraswamy, Piyush Goyal, and Dharmendra Pradhan became cabinet ministers in the NDA’s third term.

Additionally, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh (alias Lalan Singh), Sarbananda Sonowal, Dr. Virendra Kumar, Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, Pralhad Joshi, Jual Oram, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Annapurna Devi, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandviya, G. Kishan Reddy, Chirag Paswan, C.R. Patil, Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav, Jayant Chaudhary, Jitin Prasada, Shripad Yesso Naik, Pankaj Chaudhary, Krishan Pal, Ramdas Athawale, Ram Nath Thakur, Nityanand Rai, Anupriya Patel, V. Somanna, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, S.P. Singh Baghel, Shobha Karandlaje, Kirti Vardhan Singh, B.L. 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, Tokhan Sahu, Raj Bhushan Chaudhary, Bhupati Raju Srinivas Varma, Harsh Malhotra, Nimuben Jayantibai Bambhaniya, Murlidhar Mohol, George Kurian, and Pavitra Margherita also took the oath as cabinet ministers.

PM Modi will lead a coalition government in his third term, marking the first time he has headed a coalition since becoming Prime Minister in 2014 after a significant "Brand Modi" victory that ended a decade of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule. The Bharatiya Janata Party ruled outright for the past decade but failed to replicate its previous two landslide wins in this Lok Sabha election, defying analysts' expectations and exit polls.

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