NEW DELHI: A day after taking the oath of office for a historic third consecutive term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assigned portfolios to his 71-member council of ministers. The new Union Cabinet held its first meeting at the PM’s residence in the evening, following which the full list of portfolios was released.
No change in CCS composition
Signaling continuity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi retained four of his high-profile ministers: Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S. Jaishankar in the Home, Defence, Finance, and External Affairs ministries, respectively, in his new government.
PM Modi govt 3.0 council of ministers: Full list
The four ministers in charge of these portfolios make up the crucial Cabinet Committee on Security headed by the prime minister. Among the new entrants to the Union Cabinet, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been assigned the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministries, while BJP President J.P. Nadda has returned to the Health Ministry, a portfolio he held during the Modi government’s first term before he took charge of the ruling BJP first as working president in 2019 and then as full-fledged president in 2020.
What the allies got
Among the five members of the BJP’s allies in the Union Cabinet, JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy has received the Heavy Industries and Steel ministries, Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM-Secular) has been allocated the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry, and Lalan Singh (Janata Dal-United) has received the Panchayati Raj, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying ministries. TDP’s K. Rammohan Naidu has been assigned the Civil Aviation Ministry, and LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan has been allocated the Food Processing Industries Ministry. Among Ministers of State with Independent Charge, BJP ally and RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary has been allocated the Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Ministry, while Shiv Sena leader Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao will handle the Ayush Ministry.
Cabinet Ministers
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi – Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space
2. Rajnath Singh – Ministry of Defence
3. Amit Shah – Ministry of Home Affairs; Ministry of Cooperation
4. Nitin Gadkari – Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
5. JP Nadda – Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
6. Shivraj Singh Chouhan – Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Ministry of Rural Development
7. Nirmala Sitharaman – Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Corporate Affairs
8. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar – Ministry of External Affairs
9. Manohar Lal Khattar – Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Ministry of Power
10. JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy – Ministry of Heavy Industries; Ministry of Steel
11. Piyush Goyal – Ministry of Commerce and Industry
12. Dharmendra Pradhan – Ministry of Education
13. HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi – Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
14. JD(U) leader Lalan Singh – Ministry of Panchayati Raj; Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
15. Sarbananda Sonowal – Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
16. Virendra Kumar – Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
17. TDP leader Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu – Ministry of Civil Aviation
18. Prahlad Joshi – Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
19. Jual Oram – Ministry of Tribal Affairs
20. Giriraj Singh – Ministry of Textiles
21. Ashwini Vaishnaw – Ministry of Railways; Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
22. Jyotiraditya Scindia – Ministry of Communications; Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
23. Bhupendra Yadav – Ministry of Environment and Forests
24. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Ministry of Tourism; Ministry of Culture
25. Annpurna Devi – Ministry of Women & Child Development
26. Kiren Rijiju – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; Ministry of Minority Affairs
27. Hardeep Singh Puri – Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
28. Mansukh Mandaviya – Ministry of Labour & Employment; Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
29. G Kishan Reddy – Ministry of Coal; Ministry of Mines
30. LJP(RV) Chirag Paswan – Ministry of Food Processing Industries
31. C R Patil – Ministry of Jal Shakti
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
1. Rao Inderjit Singh – Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Ministry of Planning; Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
2. Jitendra Singh – Ministry of Science and Technology; 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; Minister of State in the Department of Space
3. Arjun Ram Meghwal – Ministry of Law and Justice; Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
4. Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav – Ministry of Ayush; Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
5. RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary – Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
Ministers of State
1. Jitin Prasada – MoS Ministry of Commerce and Industry; MoS Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
2. Shripad Yesso Naik – MoS Ministry of Power; MoS Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
3. Pankaj Chaudhary – MoS Ministry of Finance
4. Krishan Pal – MoS Ministry of Cooperation
5. RPI(A) leader Athawale Ramdas Bandu – MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
6. Ram Nath Thakur – MoS Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
7. Nityanand Rai – MoS Ministry of Home Affairs
8. Anupriya Singh Patel – MoS Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; MoS Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
9. V Somanna – MoS Ministry of Jal Shakti; MoS Ministry of Railways
10. TDP MP Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani – MoS Ministry of Rural Development; MoS Ministry of Communications
11. S.P. Singh Baghel – MoS Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; MoS Ministry of Panchayati Raj
12. Shobha Karandlaje – MoS Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; MoS Ministry of Labour and Employment
13. Kirti Vardhan Singh – MoS Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; MoS Ministry of External Affairs
14. B.L. Verma – MoS Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
15. Shantanu Thakur – MoS Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
16. Suresh Gopi – MoS Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; MoS Ministry of Tourism
17. L. Murugan – MoS Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; MoS Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
18. Ajay Tamta – MoS Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar – MoS Ministry of Home Affairs
20. Kamlesh Paswan – MoS Ministry of Rural Development
21. Bhagirath Choudhary – MoS Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
22. Satish Chandra Dubey – MoS Ministry of Coal; MoS Ministry of Mines
23. Sanjay Seth – MoS Ministry of Defence
24. Ravneet Singh Bittu – MoS Ministry of Food Processing Industries; MoS Ministry of Railways
25. Durga Das Uikey – MoS Ministry of Tribal Affairs
26. Raksha Nikhil Khadse – MoS Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
27. Sukanta Majumdar – MoS Ministry of Education; MoS Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
28. Savitri Thakur – MoS Ministry of Women and Child Development
29. Tokhan Sahu – MoS Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
30. Raj Bhushan Choudhary – MoS Ministry of Jal Shakti
31. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma – MoS Ministry of Heavy Industries; MoS Ministry of Steel
32. Harsh Malhotra – MoS Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; MoS Ministry of Corporate Affairs
33. Nimuben Bambhania – MoS Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
34. Murlidhar Mohol – MoS Ministry of Cooperation; MoS Ministry of Civil Aviation
35. George Kurian – MoS Ministry of Minority Affairs; MoS Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
36. Pabitra Margherita – MoS Ministry of External Affairs; MoS Ministry of Textiles
Mix of old hands and new faces
The PM Modi 3.0 council of ministers includes representation from all corners of the country as well as social groups. It has 27 ministers from Other Backward Classes, 10 from Scheduled Castes, 5 from Scheduled Tribes, and 5 from minorities. A record 18 senior ministers will be heading ministries.
The Modi Cabinet 3.0 includes 43 ministers who have served 3 terms or more in Parliament, with 39 having been ministers in the central government before. The list includes multiple former chief ministers and 34 ministers who have served in state legislatures, with 23 having worked as ministers in states.
There are also 33 first-timers in the ranks. Seven first-time ministers in the Modi government belong to the allies: TDP’s K. Rammohan Naidu and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani; JDU’s Lalan Singh and Ram Nath Thakur; RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary; LJP’s Chirag Paswan; and H.D. Kumaraswamy of the JD(S).
The new faces also include Suresh Gopi, the actor-turned-politician who scripted history by becoming the first BJP MP from Kerala. BJP’s NDA partners have received five cabinet ministerial berths this time, as against none in the outgoing government, given the party’s dependence on allies for a majority in the Lok Sabha. While the outgoing council of ministers had two ministers of state from BJP’s allies — Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal (S) and Ramdas Athawale of the RPI(A) — this time, there are two ministers of state with independent charge and four ministers of state (MoS).
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