Friday 31 May 2019

Modi cabinet ministers full list: Amit Shah Home Minister, Sitharaman FM

Rajnath Singh has been appointed as the new Defence Minister and S Jaishankar new External Affairs Minister
Amit Shah exchanges greetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he took oath as a Cabinet minister during a swearing-in ceremony at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi | Photo: PTI
The Narendra Modi government on Friday reported the distribution of the Cabinet portfolios. In an unexpected move, Amit Shah, who was guessed to be selected as the new fund serve, turned into the Home Minister with Nirmala Sitharaman turning into the new Finance Minister. Rajnath Singh has been selected as the new Defense Minister and S Jaishankar new External Affairs Minister. Smriti Irani, who was relied upon to be granted abundantly for overcoming Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, has been made the Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Textiles.
Under the portfolios formally discharged today, Piyush Goyal gets the opportunity to hold the Railways portfolio and has likewise been given Commerce and Industry which was held by Suresh Prabhu, who has been dropped. Prakash Javadekar, who was the Human Resource Development serve, gets the opportunity to hold the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and will be the new Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Gajendra Singh Shekhwat will be the Minister of Jal Shakti. Dr Harsh Vardhan has been designated as Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.
Here is the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Union Council of Ministers
1. Rajnath Singh – Minister of Defence
2. Amit Shah – Minister of Home Affairs
3. Nitin Gadkari – Minister of road transport and highways; and minister of micro, small and medium enterprises
4. D V Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
5. Nirmala Sitharaman – Minister of Finance
6. Ram Vilas Paswan – Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
7. Narendra Singh Tomar – Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj
8. Ravi Shankar Prasad – Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
9. Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Minister of Food Processing Industries
10. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
11. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
12. Ramesh Pokhriyal: Minister of Human Resource Development
13. Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
14. Smriti Zubin Irani – Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles
15. Dr Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences..
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