Modi Cabinet Expansion, Reshuffle: FULL LIST OF MINISTERS, PORTFOLIOS - MAJOR OVERHAUL! Check who got what
HERE IS FULL LIST OF MINISTERS and their PORTFOLIOS: The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Council of Ministers :-
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has congratulated all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wished them the very best for their ministerial tenure.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, "I congratulate all the colleagues who have taken oath today and wish them the very best for their ministerial tenure. We will continue working to fulfil aspirations of the people and build a strong and prosperous India. #Govt4Growth"
HERE IS FULL LIST OF MINISTERS and their PORTFOLIOS: The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Council of Ministers :-
Shri Narendra Modi |
Prime Minister and also in-charge of: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister |
CABINET MINISTERS
1. |
Shri Raj Nath Singh |
Minister of Defence |
2. |
Shri Amit Shah |
Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation |
3. |
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari |
Minister of Road Transport and Highways |
4. |
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman |
Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs |
5. |
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar |
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
6. |
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar |
Minister of External Affairs |
7. |
Shri Arjun Munda |
Minister of Tribal Affairs |
8. |
Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani |
Minister of Women and Child Development |
9. |
Shri Piyush Goyal |
Minister of Commerce and Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of Textiles |
10. |
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan |
Minister of Education; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
11. |
Shri Pralhad Joshi |
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines |
12. |
Shri Narayan Tatu Rane |
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
13. |
Shri Sarbananda Sonowal |
Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of AYUSH |
14. |
Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Minister of Minority Affairs |
15. |
Dr. Virendra Kumar |
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
16. |
Shri Giriraj Singh |
Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj |
17. |
Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia |
Minister of Civil Aviation |
18. |
Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh |
Minister of Steel |
19. |
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw |
Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology |
20. |
Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras |
Minister of Food Processing Industries |
21. |
Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat |
Minister of Jal Shakti |
22. |
Shri Kiren Rijiju |
Minister of Law and Justice |
23. |
Shri Raj Kumar Singh |
Minister of Power; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy |
24. |
Shri Hardeep Singh Puri |
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs |
25. |
Shri Mansukh Mandaviya |
Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
26. |
Shri Bhupender Yadav |
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Labour and Employment |
27. |
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey |
Minister of Heavy Industries |
28. |
Shri Parshottam Rupala |
Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying |
29. |
Shri G. Kishan Reddy |
Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region |
30. |
Shri Anurag Singh Thakur |
Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports |
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)
1. |
Rao Inderjit Singh |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
2. |
Dr. Jitendra Singh |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space |
MINISTERS OF STATE
1. |
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism |
2. |
Shri Faggansingh Kulaste |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development |
3. |
Shri Prahalad Singh Patel |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries |
4. |
Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
5. |
Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture |
6. |
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation |
7. |
Shri Krishan Pal |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries |
8. |
Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways; Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines |
9. |
Shri Ramdas Athawale |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
10. |
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development |
11. |
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying |
12. |
Shri Nityanand Rai |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs |
13. |
Shri Pankaj Chaowdhary |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance |
14. |
Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry |
15. |
Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice |
16. |
Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology |
17. |
Sushri Shobha Karandlaje |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
18. |
Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
19. |
Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways |
20. |
Shri V. Muraleedharan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs |
21. |
Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi |
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture |
22. |
Shri Som Parkash |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry |
23. |
Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs |
24. |
Shri Rameswar Teli |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment |
25. |
Shri Kailash Choudhary |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
26. |
Smt. Annpurna Devi |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education |
27. |
Shri A. Narayanaswamy |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
28. |
Shri Kaushal Kishore |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs |
29. |
Shri Ajay Bhatt |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism |
30. |
Shri B. L. Verma |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation |
31. |
Shri Ajay Kumar |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs |
32. |
Shri Devusinh Chauhan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications |
33. |
Shri Bhagwanth Khuba |
Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
34. |
Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj |
35. |
Sushri Pratima Bhoumik |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
36. |
Dr. Subhas Sarkar |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education |
37. |
Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance |
38. |
Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh |
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education |
39. |
Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare |
40. |
Shri Bishweswar Tudu |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti |
41. |
Shri Shantanu Thakur |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways |
42. |
Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH |
43. |
Shri John Barla |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs |
44. |
Dr. L. Murugan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting |
45. |
Shri Nisith Pramanik |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports |
PM Narendra Modi carries out major overhaul of Cabinet; drops 12 ministers, gets Sonowal, Scindia, Rane in
In a major Union Cabinet makeover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday dropped 12 ministers including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar and brought Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Scindia and 33 other new members to his government.
Apart from 15 Cabinet ministers, 28 Ministers of State, comprising new faces and those elevated, were sworn in a ceremony which was held in the Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
After taking into account 12 resignations hours before the expansion has taken the total strength of the Council of Ministers to 78, including the Prime Minister.
This is the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.
The expansion-cum-reshuffle of the Cabinet is seen by many political observers as an image makeover exercise by Modi as he brought in young faces and gave representation to various social groups and regions in the government. While the average age of the Council of Ministers has come down to 58 years, the new entrants also include many with high educational and professional qualifications.
Scindia and Rane, who switched over from the Congress and the Shiv Sena respectively, bagged Cabinet berths while new entrants of West Bengal were seen as an attempt to bolster the BJP's prospects in the TMC-ruled state that recently saw a high-octane electoral battle.
Lok Sabha MP from Bihar's Hajipur Pashupati Kumar Paras, who is embroiled in a feud with nephew Chirag Paswan over the control of Ram Vilas Paswan-founded Lok Janshakti Party, was also sworn in as a Cabinet minister.
The reshuffle also saw JD(U) joining the government Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar R C P Singh being made a Cabinet minister.
Rane, 69, a Rajya Sabha MP and a former Maharashtra chief minister, was the first to take oath. After
Rane, Sonowal, former Assam chief minister, took oath in English. The 58-year-old leader had earlier served as Union Minister of State (Independent charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Sports and Youth Affairs under Prime Minister Modi
Congress-turned-BJP leader Scindia, a Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh, also took oath as a Cabinet minister. The 50-year-old leader was Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and Union Minister of State for Commerce & Communications in the earlier UPA government.
Lok Sabha MP from Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar, Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha Ashwini Vaishnaw, Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar and JD(U) leader R C P Singh, Lok Sabha MP from Bihar's Hajipur Pashupati Kumar Paras, were also sworn-in as Cabinet ministers.
Kiren Rijiju, R K Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Parshottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur were elevated to the Cabinet level.
Bhupendra Yadav, who has been serving in the BJP organisation as a general secretary, was also sworn-in as a Cabinet minister.
Among the 28 Ministers of State, seven are from Uttar Pradesh which goes to polls next year with the BJP seeking a second term there.
Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Patel, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Kaushal Kishore, S P S Baghel and Ajay Kumar-- all are Lok Sabha MPs from Uttar Pradesh who took oath as Ministers of State. B L Verma, a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, was also sworn-in as a Minister of State.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Shobha Karandlaje, MPs from Karnataka; Darshana Vikram Jardosh from Gujarat; New Delhi Lok Sabha MP Meenakashi Lekhi; Annpurna Devi (Jharkhand), A Narayanaswamy (Karnataka); Ajay Bhatt (Uttarakhand), Chauhan Devusinh (Gujarat), were also sworn in as MoS.
Others who were inducted as Ministers of State at the ceremony were Bhagwanth Khuba (Karnataka); Kapil Moreshwar Patil (Maharashtra); Pratima Bhoumik (Tripura); Subhas Sarkar (West Bengal); Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad (Maharashtra); Rajkumar Ranjan Singh (Manipur); MPs Bharati Pawar (Maharashtra), Bishweswar Tudu (Odisha) and Shantanu Thakur (West Bengal) Munjapara Mahendrabhai (Gujarat), John Barla and Nisith Pramanik (West Bengal); and BJP's Tamil Nadu state president L Murugan.
At least 16 entrants to the Council of Ministers are first time MPs.
Murugan is the only minister who is not an MP and would need to get elected to either Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha within six months. There is a buzz that he may come in as Rajya Sabha member from Puducherry.
Seven women were among the 43 who took oath, taking the total number of women ministers in the government to 11.
Nisith Pramanik (35), the Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal's Cooch Behar, is the youngest minister to be sworn in, while the oldest member in the council of ministers is 72-year-old Som Parkash.
The other ministers who resigned were--Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank", Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Rattan Lal Kataria and Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo.
Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot had resigned after he was made Governor of Karnataka on Tuesday.
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