[The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari and the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Heads of SAARC countries after the Swearing-in Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on May 26, 2014.]

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The President of India has appointed Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi as the Prime Minister of India. Further, as advised by the Prime Minister, the President has appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers:-

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Shri Raj Nath Singh

2. Smt. Sushma Swaraj

3. Shri Arun Jaitley

4. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

6. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda

7. Sushri Uma Bharati

8. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

9. Shri Gopinathrao Munde

10. Shri Ramvilas Paswan

11. Shri Kalraj Mishra

12. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

13. Shri Ananthkumar

14. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

15. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

16. Shri Anant Geete

17. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

18. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

19. Shri Jual Oram

20. Shri Radha Mohan Singh

21. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

22. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

23. Dr. Harsh Vardhan

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1. General V.K. Singh

2. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao

3. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

4. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

5. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

6. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

7. Shri Prakash Javadekar

8. Shri Piyush Goyal

9. Dr. Jitendra Singh

10. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara

2. Shri Manoj Sinha

3. Shri Nihalchand

4. Shri Upendra Kushwaha

5. Shri Radhakrishnan P

6. Shri Kiren Rijiju

7. Shri Krishan Pal

8. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

9. Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava

10. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve

11. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai

12. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat

The President administered the oaths of office and secrecy to the above members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, today.

President's Secretariat 26-May, 2014

Council of Ministers appointed and sworn in: Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and Ministers of State named. The President appointed the Prime Minister and, on the Prime Minister's advice, designated members of the Council of Ministers as Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and Ministers of State; the appointees were administered the oaths of office and secrecy by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan, and the release lists the names in each ministerial category as the official record of the executive composition.