NEW DELHI: India’s President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday announced the list of ministries on the recommendation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to the portfolio, President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah is the new Home Minister. Rajnath Singh, who was the Home Minister in the previous government, is the Defense Minister.
Likewise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will look after the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Space; Department of Atomic Energy; and other portfolios, which are not allocated to any minister.
Cabinet Ministers in the Modi government
Rajnath Singh, Defense Minister.
Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs.
Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
Ramvilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Electronics and Information Technology; and Minister of Communications.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Ramesh Pokhriyal, Minister of Human Resource Development.
Arjun Munda, Minister of Tribal Affairs.
Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Earth Sciences; Minister of Science and Technology.
Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Information and Broadcasting; Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and
Minister of Steel.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of Minority Affairs.
Pralhad Joshi, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. (Agencies)
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