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Two newly elected members of parliament (MPs) from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Ram Mohan Naidu and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, will take oath as ministers alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The announcement was made by TDP leader Jayadev Galla, a former lawmaker.
The NDA coalition secured a majority of 293 seats out of 543 in the Lok Sabha election.
Other leaders who are expected to take oath on Sunday alongside Modi include Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Piyush Goyal, and Jyotiraditya Scindia; former Karnataka chief minister and Janata Dal-Secular president HD Kumaraswamy, former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, cabinet minister Kiren Rijiju; Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan, JD-S MP Ram Nath Thakur, Hindustani Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manjhi, Rajya Sabha MP Jayant Chaudhary, Anupriya Patel from Apna Dal (Soneylal), TDP’s Rammohan Naidu, Shiv Sena’s Pratap Rao Jadhav, Maharashtra BJP leader Raksha Khadse and more.
PM-designate Narendra Modi will be sworn in as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term on Sunday at 7:15pm at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
President Droupadi Murmu will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Modi and his cabinet ministers at 7:15pm on Sunday, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Forecourt.
In the recently concluded general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 240 seats, and the NDA secured a majority of 293 seats out of 543 Lok Sabha seats.
The oath-taking ceremony will be attended by several NDA coalition allies.
Modi will become the second leader after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to take oath as the PM for the third consecutive term.
Source: 2 TDP MPs, several Union ministers, to take oath today alongside Modi