Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of India for the third time on Sunday. Along with him, 72 NDA MPs were sworn in as ministers and ministers of state. The allocation of portfolios to these ministers has become a hot topic in political circles. Who got which department in Modi’s third term? The central government has officially announced the cabinet portfolios.
Key Ministerial Portfolios:
Rajnath Singh - Defence
Amit Shah - Home
Nirmala Sitharaman - Finance
Nitin Gadkari - Transport
JP Nadda - Health
S. Jaishankar - External Affairs
Manohar Lal Khattar - Housing and Urban Development
Shivraj Singh Chouhan - Agriculture
Ashwini Vaishnaw - Information, Railways
Jitan Ram Manjhi - Small and Medium Enterprises
Ajay & Harsh Malhotra - Assistant Ministers of Transport
Shripad Naik - Assistant Minister of Urban Development
CR Patil - Water Resources
Rammohan Naidu - Civil Aviation
Kumaraswamy - Heavy Industries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Tourism and Culture
Dharmendra Pradhan - Education
Kiren Rijiju - Parliamentary Affairs
Chirag Paswan - Sports
Suresh Gopi & Rao Inderjit Singh - Assistant Ministers
Hardeep Singh Puri - Petroleum
Shripad Naik - Power
Mansukh Mandaviya - Labour, Sports
Shobha Karandlaje - Assistant Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises
Suresh Gopi - Tourism
Piyush Goyal - Commerce
Giriraj Singh - Textiles
Sarbananda Sonowal - Shipping
Ravneet Bittu - Assistant Minister of Minority Affairs
Kishan Reddy - Coal and Mines
Bandi Sanjay - Assistant Minister of Home Affairs
Srinivas Varma - Assistant Minister of Steel and Heavy Industries
Rajiv Ranjan Singh - Panchayati Raj, Fisheries
Pemmasani Chandrasekhar - Assistant Minister of Rural Development, Communication
Prahlad Joshi - Renewable Energy
Annapurna Devi - Women and Child Welfare
Virendra Kumar - Social Justice and Empowerment
Pankaj Choudhary - Assistant Minister of Finance
Krishna Pal Gurjar - Assistant Minister of Cooperation
Keerthivardhan Singh - Assistant Minister of Environment, External Affairs
Satish Chandra Dubey - Assistant Minister of Coal and Mines
Durga Das Uke - Assistant Minister of Tribal Affairs
Sukant Majumdar - Assistant Minister of Education, Northeast Development
Tokhan Sahu - Assistant Minister of Housing, Urban Affairs
Rajabhushan Choudhary - Assistant Minister of Water Resources
Nimuben Jayantibhai Bhanbhania - Consumer, Food, Public Distribution
Muralidhar Mohol - Assistant Minister of Cooperation, Civil Aviation
George Kurian - Assistant Minister of Minority, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, Dairy
Pabitra Margarita - Assistant Minister of External Affairs, Textiles
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