BJP President Amit Shah will be the new Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government while Rajnath Singh will be the new Defence Minister and Nirmala Sitharaman the Finance Minister. Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar will be the new External Affairs Minister while Smriti Irani has been given charge of Women and Child Development Ministry in addition to Ministry of Textiles she already had in the earlier government.
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Under the portfolios officially released today, Piyush Goyal gets to retain the Railways portfolio and has also been given Commerce and Industry which was held by Suresh Prabhu, who has been dropped. Prakash Javadekar, who was the Human Resource Development minister, gets to retain the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and will be the new Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
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Rajnath Singh appointed as the new Defence Minister, Amit Shah new Home Minister, S Jaishankar new External Affairs Minister. pic.twitter.com/6F1T4okJA8
— ANI (@ANI) May 31, 2019
Here is the full list of Cabinet ministers along with their portfolios.
Rajnath Singh: Defence Minister
Amit Shah: Home Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs
S Jaishankar: External Affairs Minister
Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Micro, small and Medium Enterprises.
Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Ramvilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Communications, and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: Minister of Human Resource Development
Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
Smriti Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Textiles
Dr Harshwardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Minister of Science and technology, Minister of Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways, and Minister of Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of petroleum and natural gas, Minister of Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minister of Minority Affairs
Prahlad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary affairs, Minister of Coal and Mines
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment
Rao Inderjit Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Planning
Shripad Yesso Naik: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministy of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH), and Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
Dr. Jitendra Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, Minister of State in PMO, 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.
Kiren Rijiju: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
Prahalad Singh Patel: Minister of State (Independent Charge) the Ministry of Culture, and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism
Faggansingh Kulaste: MoS (Ministry of Steel)
Ashwini Kumar: MoS (Ministry of Health and Fmaily Welfare
Arjun Ram Meghwal: MoS in Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, and MoS in Ministry of Heavy industries and Public Enterprises
General V K Singh: MoS in Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways
Krishan Pal: MoS in Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao: MoS in Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
G Krishan Reddy: MoS in Ministry of Home Affairs
Parshottam Rupata: MoS in Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Ramdas Athawale: MoS in Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: MoS in Ministry of Rural Development
Babul Surpiyo: MoS in Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: MoS in Ministry of Animal Husbandary, Dairying and Fisheries
Dhotre Shamrao: Mos in Ministry of Human Resource Development, Mos in Ministry of Communication and MoS in Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Anurag Singh Thakur: MoS in Ministry of Finance, Mos in Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa: MoS in Ministry of Home Affairs
Nityanand Rai: Mos in Ministry of Home Affairs
Rattan Lal Kataria: Mos in Ministry of Jal Shakti, Mos in Social Justice and Empowerment
V. Muraleedharan: Mos in External Affairs, MoS in Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Renuka Singh Saruta: MoS in Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Som Parkash: Mos in Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Rameshwar Teli: MoS in Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Pratab Chandra Sarangi: MoS in Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, and MoS in Ministry of Animal Husbandary, Dairying and Fisheries
Kailash Choudhary: MoS in Ministry of Agricultue and Farmers Welfare
Sushri Debasree Chaudhary: MoS in Ministry of Women and Child Development
With inputs from PTI