Narendra Modi was sworn in as 15th Prime Minister of the country. 46-member Union Council of Ministers including 23 with Cabinet rank, 10 Ministers of State with Independent Charge and 12 Ministers of State also took oath along with Mr. Modi. President Pranab Mukherjee administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mr. Modi and his cabinet colleagues at a function in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhawan this evening. Senior most BJP Leader L.K Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi were not included in the Council of Ministers. Party leaders Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Shatrughan Sinha and Anurag Thakur also could not get a place in the union council of ministers.
The new government does not have any representation from several states like West Bengal, Kerala and some from the Northeast. The two BJP MPs Babul Supriyo and S S Ahluwalia from West Bengal were also not included in the list of Ministers. Only Sarbananda Sonowal of Assam and Kiren Rijiju of Arunachal Pradesh represent the Northeast in the Council of Ministers. Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Sikkim and Tripura remained unrepresented. There is also no representation in the new government from Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand as well although BJP swept all the Lok Sabha seats in the two states in the general elections.