New Delhi: Following marathon meeting sessions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah finalised the names for the Council of Ministers ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of the new government on Thursday evening. 


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Modi, who led the Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide election victory, will take oath along with a new council of ministers for a second term at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 7 pm today. Top leaders and guests have also been invited from around the world and across the nation to attend Modi`s swearing-in.


According to sources, following BJP MPs and NDA leaders have got the call Prime Minsiter's Office to take oath as ministers: 


1. Debasree Chaudhuri, Raiganj MP


2. Sanjeev Balyan, Muzaffarnagar BJP MP


3. Santosh Gangwar, Bareilly BJP MP


4. General V K Singh, Ghaziabad BJP MP


5. Niranjan Jyoti, Fatehpur BJP MP


6. Nityanand Rai, Bihar BJP president and Ujiarpur MP


7. Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, MP from Maharashtra's Akola


8. Suresh Angadi, Belgaum MP


9. Renuka Singh, Surguja MP


10. Prahlad Joshi, Dharwad MP, former BJP Karnataka BJP chief


11. Prakash Javadekar, Rajya Sabha


12. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Jaipur Rural MP


13. Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bikaner MP


14. Kailash Choudhary, Barmer MP


15. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Jodhpur MP


16. Som Parkash, Hoshiarpur MP


17. DV Sadananda Gowda, Bengaluru North MP


18. Giriraj Singh, Begusarai MP


19. Parshottam Rupala, Gujarat Rajya Sabha MP


20. Mansukh L. Mandaviya, Palitana MP


21. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', Haridwar MP and former Uttarakhand chief minister.


22. Dharmendra Pradhan


23. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi


24. Sushma Swaraj


25. Jitender Singh


26. Piyush Goel


27. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Patna Sahib MP


28. G Kishan Reddy, Telangana MP


29. Prahlad Patel, Damoh MP


30. Krishnapal Gurjar, Faridabad MP


31. Arvind Sawant, Shiv Sena, Mumbai South MP


32. Republican Party of India (A) chief Ramdas Athawale


33. Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan


35. Ramchandra Prasad Singh from Janata Dal (United)


34. P Raveendrananth Kumar, AIADMK MP, son of Tamil Nadu Deputy CM O Paneerselvam (OPS)


35. Mahendranath Pandey


36. Narendra Singh Tomar


37. Amit Shah is also likely to be part of the Modi govt, say sources


38. Anurag Thakur


39. Rita Bahuguna 


40. Former Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar


41. Smriti Irani


42. Hardeep Singh Puri


43. Babul Supriyo


44. Thawar Chand Gehlot


45. Nirmala Sitharaman


46. Harsh Vardhan


47. Kiren Rijiju


48. Prakash Javadekar


49. Mahendra Nath Pandey


50. Shripad Naik


51. Ashwini Kumar Choubey


 


In the biggest-ever event held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the swearing-in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday will be attended by nearly 8,000 guests, including foreign dignitaries and chief ministers and governors. A tight and multi-layered security arrangement has been made in the national capital with the deployment of around 10,000 security personnel from Delhi Police and paramilitary forces.