Published 23:45 IST, May 30th 2019
A day after swearing-in, Modi Government's first Cabinet meeting to be held at 5pm on Friday
A day after Prime Minister Modi was sworn-in for a second consecutive term along with his Union Council of Ministers, the Modi government's first cabinet meeting is reportedly scheduled on Friday at 5 PM in the South Block office in the Secretariat building, New Delhi.
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A day after Prime Minister Modi was sworn-in for a second consecutive term along with his Union Council of Ministers, Modi government's first cabinet meeting is reportedly scheduled on Friday at 5 PM in South Block office in Secretariat building, New Delhi.
After swearing-in as Prime Minister for a second consecutive term, PM Modi on Thursday immediately got down to work at 10:30 PM by holding wide-ranging talks with President Sooronbay Jeenbekov of Kyrgyz Republic. Sharing details of talks with President Jeenbekov who attended swearing-in ceremony, Prime Minister Office tweeted:
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Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister of India in Rashtrapati Bhawan forecourt along with 35 Cabinet Ministers, 9 Ministers of State with Independent Charge and 25 Ministers of State. Among significant statistics, it was learnt that aver of Council of Ministers is 59.36.
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Prime Ministers's swearing-in ceremony was attended by approximately 8000 guests including VVIPs, state Chief Ministers, state unit chiefs of BJP, state ministers, present members of Parliament, former members of Parliament and or special guests. World leers namely - President of Banglesh - Md. Abdul Hamid, President of Sri Lanka - Maithripala Sirisena, President of Kyrgyz Republic - Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Myanmar - U Win Myint, Prime Minister of Mauritius - Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Nepal - K.P. Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Bhutan - Dr. Lotay Tshering and Special Envoy of Thailand - Mr. Grisa Boonrach were present for oath-taking.
A few who were absent from evening's proceedings are Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, Telangana Chief KC Rao, Andhra Presh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan.
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23:32 IST, May 30th 2019