Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled his cabinet and inducted 19 new ministers in his cabinet. The move aims to please voters in state ahead of elections and to boost up the economic growth.
Modi added 19 new faces from 10 states in the new cabinet. These are SS Ahluwalia, Ramesh Chandappa Jigjinagi, Parshottam Rupala, MJ Akbar, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Anil Madhav Dave, Vijay Goel, Rajen Gohain, Mahendra Nath Pandey, CR Chaudhary, PP Chaudhary, Ramdas Athawale, Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, Jaswant Sinh Bhabhor, Mansukh Mandaviya, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Ajay Tamta, Anupriya Singh Patel and Krishna Raj.
The controversial Smriti Irani lost the service as HRD minister and shifted to the textile portfolio. The education minister’s portfolio has been handed over to Prakash Javadekar.
The complete list of Modi's new cabinet:
Cabinet Ministers | Portfolios |
Rajnath Singh | Home Affairs |
Sushma Swaraj | External Affairs |
Arun Jaitley | Finance and Corporate Affairs |
M. Venkaiah Naidu | Information & Broadcasting |
Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Road Transport and Highways |
Shipping | |
Manohar Parrikar | Defence |
Suresh Prabhu | Railways |
D. V. Sadananda Gowda | Statistics & Programme Implementation |
Uma Bharati | Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation |
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla | Minority Affairs |
Ramvilas Paswan | Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution |
Kalraj Mishra | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi | Women & Child Development |
Ananthkumar | Parliamentary Affairs |
Chemicals & Fertilisers | |
Ravi Shankar Prasad | Law & Justice |
Electronics & Information Technology | |
Jagat Prakash Nadda | Health & Family Welfare |
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati | Civil Aviation |
Anant Geete | Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
Harsimrat Kaur Badal | Food Processing Industries |
Narendra Singh Tomar | Rural Development, |
Panchayati Raj | |
Drinking Water & Sanitation | |
Chaudhary Birender Singh | Steel |
Jual Oram | Tribal Affairs |
Radha Mohan Singh | Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
Thaawar Chand Gehlot | Social Justice and Empowerment |
Smriti Zubin Irani | Textiles |
Dr. Harsh Vardhan | Science & Technology, Earth Sciences |
Prakash Javadekar | Human Resource Development |
Ministers of State | Portfolios |
Rao Inderjit Singh | Planning (Independent Charge) |
Urban Development | |
Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
Bandaru Dattatreya | Labour & Employment (Independent Charge) |
Rajiv Pratap Rudy | Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) |
Vijay Goel | Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) |
Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation | |
Shripad Yesso Naik | AAYUSH (Independent Charge) |
Dharmendra Pradhan | Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) |
Piyush Goyal | Power (Independent Charge) |
Coal (Independent Charge) | |
New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) | |
Mines (Independent Charge) | |
Dr. Jitendra Singh | Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) |
Prime Minister’s Office | |
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions | |
Department of Atomic Energy | |
Department of Space | |
Nirmala Sitharaman | Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) |
Dr. Mahesh Sharma | Culture (Independent Charge) |
Tourism (Independent Charge) | |
Manoj Sinha | Communications (Independent Charge) |
Railways | |
Anil Madhav Dave | Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) |
General V. K. Singh | External Affairs |
Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Finance |
Faggan Singh Kulaste | Health & Family Welfare |
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Minority Affairs |
Parliamentary Affairs | |
S. S. Ahluwalia | Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
Parliamentary Affairs | |
Ramdas Athawale | Social Justice & Empowerment |
Ram Kripal Yadav | Rural Development |
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
Giriraj Singh | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir | Home Affairs |
G. M. Siddeshwara | Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi | Drinking Water & Sanitation |
Rajen Gohain | Railways |
Parshottam Rupala | Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
Panchayati Raj | |
M. J. Akbar | External Affairs |
Upendra Kushwaha | Human Resources Development |
Radhakrishnan P | Road Transport & Highways |
Shipping | |
Kiren Rijiju | Home Affairs |
Krishan Pal | Social Justice & Empowerment |
Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor | Tribal Affairs |
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation |
Vishnu Deo Sai | Steel |
Sudarshan Bhagat | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Y. S. Chowdary | Science & Technology |
Earth Science | |
Jayant Sinha | Civil Aviation |
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Information & Broadcasting |
Babul Supriyo | Urban Development |
Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Food Processing Industries |
Vijay Sampla | Social Justice & Empowerment |
Arjun Ram Meghwal | Finance |
Corporate Affairs | |
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | Human Resource Development |
Ajay Tamta | Textiles |
Krishna Raj | Women & Child Development |
Mansukh L. Mandaviya | Road Transport & Highways, |
Shipping, | |
Chemicals & Fertilizers | |
Anupriya Patel | Health & Family Welfare |
C. R. Chaudhary | Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution |
P. P. Chaudhary | Law & Justice |
Electronics & Information Technology | |
Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre | Defence |
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