Sharad Pawar takes oath as Cabinet Minister administered by the President Pratibha Patil at Ashok Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday, 22 May 2009. CPP leader Prime Minister Manmohan Singh takes oath as PM for second time, the two non Congress leaders to find a cabinet berth are Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, Congress ministers who take oath are Pranav Mukherjee, P Chidambaram, AK Antony, S M Krishna, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sushil Kumar Shinde, M Veerappa Moily, S Jaipal Reddy, Kamal Nath, Vayalar Ravi, Meira Kumar, Murli Deora, Kapil Sibal, Ambika Soni, B K Handique, Anand Sharma and C P Joshi.

Photographer: A Sarthak

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