The government on Monday allocated the portfolios to the Union ministers with most of the top leaders from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retaining their ministries. Amit Shah has been once again named Home Minister, Rajnath Singh Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman Finance Minister, S Jaishankar External Affairs Minister and Nitin Gadkari the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry, according to a statement issued by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday evening. These ministers had the same portfolios in the previous government led by PM Modi.
Among the changes, former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal has been allocated Ministry of Power and Housing & Urban Affairs while former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan has been given Agriculture andRural Development ministries.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 71 ministers in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government took oath at the mega ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday. The BJP has kept the most of the top ministries with it while 11 leaders from the NDA allies also took oath on Sunday.
The new council of ministers has 61 members from the BJP and 11 leaders from the NDA allies. Of the 72 ministers, 43 have three or more terms in the Parliament, and 39 were ministers in the Union government earlier.
Here is the list of Union Ministers and their respective portfolios in the new government led by PM Modi:
MINISTERS | PORTFOLIOS |
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PM Narendra Modi | PMO. Personnel. Atomic Energy. Space |
CABINET MINISTERS | PORTFOLIOS |
Rajnath Singh | Defence |
Amit Shah | Home Affairs. Cooperation |
Nitin Gadkari | Road Transport & Highways |
JP Nadda | Health & Family Welfare |
Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Agriculture. Rural Development |
Nirmala Sitharaman | Finance. Corporate Affairs |
S Jaishankar | External Affairs |
Manohar Lal | Power. Housing & Urban Affairs |
HD Kumaraswamy | Heavy Industries. Steel |
Piyush Goyal | Commerce and Industry |
Dharmendra Pradhan | Education |
Jitan Ram Manjhi | MSME |
Lallan Singh | Panchayati Raj. Fisheries. Animal Husbandry |
Sarbananda Sonowal | Ports, Shipping and Waterways |
Virendra Kumar | Social Justice & Empowerment |
Ram Mohan Naidu | Civil Aviation |
Prahlad Joshi | Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution. New & Renewable Energy |
Jual Oram | Tribal Affairs |
Giriraj Singh | Textiles |
Ashwini Vaishnaw | Railways. I&B. Electronics and IT |
Jyotiraditya M Scindia | Communications. North East |
Bhupender Yadav | Environment. Forest & Climate Change |
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Culture & Tourism |
Annpurna Devi | Women and Child Development |
Kiren Rijiju | Parliamentary Affairs. Minority Affairs |
Hardeep Puri | Petroleum and Natural Gas |
Mansukh Mandaviya | Labour & Employment. Youth Affairs and Sports |
G Kishan Reddy | Coal and Mines |
Chirag Paswan | Food Processing Industries |
CR Paatil | Jal Shakti |
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) | PORTFOLIOS |
Rao Inderjit Singh | Statistics. Planning and Culture |
Dr Jitendra Singh | Science & Technology. Earth Sciences. PMO. Atomic Energy. Space. |
Arjun Ram Meghwal | Law and Justice. Parliamentary Affairs |
Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao | Ayush. Health and Family Welfare |
Jayant Chaudhary | Skill Development |
MINISTERS OF STATE | PORTFOLIOS |
Jitin Prasada | Commerce and Industry. Electronics & IT |
Shripad Yesso Naik | Power. New and Renewable Energy. |
Pankaj Chaudhary | Finance |
Krishan Pal | Cooperation. |
Ramdas Athawale | Social Justice and Empowerment. |
Ram Nath Thakur | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Nityanand Rai | Home Affairs |
Anupriya Patel | Health and Family Welfare. Chemicals and Fertilizers. |
V Somanna | Jal Shakti. Railways. |
Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani | Rural Development. Communications. |
SP Singh Baghel | Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Darying. Panchayati Raj |
Sobha Karandlaje | MSME. Labour & Employment |
Kirtivardhan Singh | Environment, Forest and Climate Change. External Affairs |
BL Verma | Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Social Justice and Empowerment |
Shantanu Thakur | Ports, Shipping and Waterways |
Suresh Gopi | Petroleum and Natural Gas. Tourism |
Dr L Murugan | I&B. Parliamentary Affairs |
Ajay Tamta | Road Transport and Highways |
Bandi Sanjay Kumar | Home Affairs |
Kamlesh Paswan | Rural Development |
Bhagirath Choudhary | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. |
Satish Chandra Dubey | Coal and Mines |
Sanjay Seth | Defence |
Ravneet Singh | Food Processing Industries. Railways. |
Durgadas Uikey | Tribal Affairs. |
Raksha Nikhil Khadse | Youth Affairs and Sports. |
Sukanta Majumdar | Education. North East |
Savitri Thakur | Women and Child Development. |
Tokhan Sahu | Housing and Urban Affairs. |
Raj Bhushan Choudhary | Jal Shakti. |
Bhupathi Srinivasa Varma | Heavy Industries. Steel |
Harsh Malhotra | Corporate Affairs. Road Transport and Highways |
Nimuben Bambhaniya | Consumer Affairs. Food and Public Distribution |
Murlidhar Mohol | Cooperation. Civil Aviation. |
George Kurian | Minority Affairs. Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. |
Pabitra Margherita | External Affairs. Textiles |
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