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

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.

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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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Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Here is the full list of ministers in the new government

From Narendra Modi to Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, more than 50 leaders took the oath of office and secrecy on May 30

Having notched up a thumping victory in Lok Sabha Elections 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was on Thursday sworn in for a second term in office. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more than 50 leaders of the BJP and other alliance partners in the NDA were administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

Apart from Modi, some of the most prominent names in the new Union Cabinet are those of BJP President Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nitin Gadkari, D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan and Ravi Shankar Prasad. A surprise entrant in the list of ministers was former foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

The portfolios of the sworn-in ministers are yet to be announced. While many incumbent ministers were among those who took oath, several minsters in the first stint of the Modi government were also left out. The most high-profile among those who will not be in the second Modi Cabinet are Arun Jaitley, who had requested PM Modi on Wednesday that he should not

Here is the full list of ministers who took oath on Thursday: 

Narendra Modi: Narendra Damodardas Modi, the 14th prime minister of India who has been re-elected for a second term in office, is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Born in Gujarat’s Vadnagar in 1950, Modi is said to have spent his early childhood working in his family tea stall and also selling tea at railway platforms. 

Rajnath Singh: A Bharatiya Janata party veteran, Rajnath Singh had been the Union home minister in the first term of the Narendra Modi government. He was also the head of the BJP’s manifesto drafting committee.

Amit Shah: A businessman-turned-politician, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is also referred to as the ‘Chanakya’ of modern Indian politics. A close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, Amit Shah put his political acumen to use on a pan-Indian basis even before donning the mantle of the BJP president. 

Nitin Gadkari: The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping in the first term of the Modi government, Nitin Gadkari is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He also held the Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation portfolios. 

D V Sadananda Gowda: Gowda, a former chief minister of Karnataka, served as the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation in the first term of the Modi government. He had the additional charge of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry as well.

Nirmala Sitharaman: Nirmala Sitharaman, a BJP politician and the Minister of State for Defence in the first term of the Modi government, had also held the portfolio of commerce and industry minister with independent charge. 

Ram Vilas Paswan: Ram Vilas Paswan, a politician from Bihar and President of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), started his political career as a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Paswan joined the Lok Dal in 1974 and was subsequently appointed as the general secretary of the party. ..