Modi Cabinet 2.0: Prime Minister Narendra Damodar Das Modi and his Council of Ministers took an oath to the office on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The 17th Lok Sabha Union Cabinet includes 24 cabinet ministers, 9 ministers of state with independent charge and 24 ministers of state took an oath to the office on Yesterday May 30, 2019.
The first-time Ministers like Amit Shah, S Jaishankar along with 23 other ministers including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and Smriti Irani also took oath as Union ministers. Today, On May 31, as advised by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the President of India, Mr Ram Kovind, has directed the allocation of portfolios among the members of the Union Council of Ministers.
Some of the key ministers in the previous Modi Government (Modi Cabinet 1.0), including Sushma Swaraj, Uma Bharti, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Maneka Gandhi, are not a part of the new council of ministers. Arun Jaitley, former finance minister in Modi cabinet 1.0 had written earlier to PM Modi for not willing to be a part of the new government (Modi Cabinet 2.0) citing health reasons.
Here is the list of new Council of Ministers and their allocated portfolios:
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Modi Cabinet 2.0 |
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Council of Ministers (Cabinet Ministers) |
Ministry Held in 2014 | New Ministry in 2019 |
| Narendra Modi (Prime Minister) | Various Departments |
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and All Important policy issues; and Other portfolios not allocated to any Minister |
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Amit Shah |
NA | Minister of Home Affairs |
| Rajnath Singh | Minister of Home Affairs |
Minister of Defence |
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Nitin Gadkari |
Shipping, Surface Transport, Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry | Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Minister of Defence |
Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs |
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Smriti Irani |
HRD, Textiles and Information & Broadcasting Minister (with Span of time) | Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles |
| Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | NA (Retired as the Foreign Secretary of India) |
Minister of External Affairs |
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Ravi Shankar Prasad |
Union Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology Minister | Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology |
| D.V. Sadananda Gowda | Railway Ministry, Law and Justice, Statistics and Programme Implementation and Chemicals and Fertilisers for various spans of time |
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
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Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Union Food Processing Minister | Minister of Food Processing Industries |
| Mahendra Nath Pandey | Union minister of state (MoS) in the Ministry of Human Resource Development between 2016 and 2017 |
Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
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Arvind Ganpat Sawant (Shiv Sena) |
NA | Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise |
| Prahlad Joshi | NA |
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines. |
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Piyush Goyal |
Coal, Power, Railways and Finance portfolios for different time spans. | Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry |
| Prakash Javadekar | MoS for Environment with independent charge. Later, Information and Broadcasting ministry for a brief time and then made cabinet minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) |
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Minority Affairs Minister |
Minister of Minority Affairs |
| Ram Vilas Paswan | Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
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Thaawar Chand Gehlot |
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
| Giriraj Singh | Member of the Standing Committee on Labour and Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament. Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Later, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries |
| Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare | Minister of Jal Shakti (New Ministry) | |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Minister of Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj |
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj |
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Arjun Munda |
NA | Minister of Tribal Affairs. |
| Dr Harshavardhan | Minister of Health and Family Welfare |
Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences |
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Dharmendra Pradhan |
Union minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas. | Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel |
| Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank | NA |
Minister of Human Resource Development |
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Modi Cabinet 2.0 |
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Council of Ministers (Minister of State) |
Portfolio Allocated (Ministry in Modi Cabinet 2.0) |
| Shripad Yesso Naik |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence. |
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Kiran Rijiju |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs. |
| Jitendra Singh |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; 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. |
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Hardeep Singh Puri |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. |
| Santosh Kumar Gangwar |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. |
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Mansukh Mandaviya |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. |
| Rao Inderjit Singh |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning. |
| Raj Kumar Singh | Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. |
| Prahlad Singh Patel |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism. |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal (Bikaner) | Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. |
| Ashwini Kumar Chaubey | Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. |
| Faggansingh Kulaste | Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel. |
| Danve Raosaheb Dadarao | Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. |
| Krishan Pal Gurjar | Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
| General (Retd) V. K. Singh | Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. |
| Gangapuram Kishan Reddy | Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. |
| Parshottam Rupala | Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. |
| Ramdas Athawale | Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development. |
| Babul Supriyo | Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. |
| Sanjeev Balyan | Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. |
| Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre | Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development; Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. |
| Anurag Thakur |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. |
| Suresh Angadi | Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. |
| Nityanand Rai | Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. |
| Rattan Lal Kataria | Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
| V Muraleedharan | Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. |
| Renuka Singh | Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. |
| Som Parkash | Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. |
| Rameshwar Teli | Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. |
| Pratap Chandra Sarangi | Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. |
| Kailash Choudhary (Barmer) | Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. |
| Debasree Chaudhuri | Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development. |
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As per the Constitution, the total number of Union ministers, including the Prime Minister shall not exceed 15 per cent of the total number of Lok Sabha members. Prime Minister Narendra Modi can have as many as 80 ministers in the 543-member Lok Sabha. With current appointments, the total number of Union ministers in 17th Lok Sabha is 57.
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