Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ready to take the oath of office and secrecy at the grand swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday evening. Along with PM Modi, the Union Council of Ministers will also be taking the oath, which will be administered by President Ram Nath Kovind. Notably, outgoing Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has requested to opt out of the incoming government owing to health concerns, however, PM Modi is believed to have asked him to reconsider his decision. Meanwhile, MPs selected for ministerial berths will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence at 4.30 pm on Thursday, shortly before the swearing-in ceremony, sources said. Other senior party leaders such as Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh Tomar, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and Smriti Irani are also likely to join the second Modi government after being its members in its first avatar. Here’s a list of ministers in the new Modi Cabinet: Prakash Javadekar Piyush Goyal Ravi Shankar Prasad Kiren Rijiju Smriti Irani Rajyavardhan Rathore Nirmala Sitharaman Narendra Singh Tomar Nitin Gadkari Arjun Ram Meghwal Ramdas Athawale Prahlad Patel Suresh Angadi Dr Jitendra Singh Babul Supriyo Kishen Reddy Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Harsimrat Kaur Badal Kailash Chawdhary Raosaheb Danve Kisan Pal Gujjar Sadhvi Niranjan Mansukh Mandviya Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Ram Chandra Prasad Sushma Swaraj Debosree Chaudhari Kunar Hebram Purshottam Rupala Shripad Naik Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Ratan Lal Kataria Som Prakash Sanjeev Balyan Giriraj Singh Arjun Munda Sanjay Dhotre Renuka Singh Sarguja Rao Inderjit Singh Anupriya Patel Thawarchand Gehlot Rameshwar Teli Subrat Pathak Nityanand Rai
