Prime Minister Narendra Modi has officially commenced his third consecutive term by announcing the key portfolios assigned to ministers following their swearing-in ceremony. This announcement was made after the first Cabinet meeting on Monday, marking a significant step in the establishment of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
Swearing-In Ceremony Highlights ✨
On Sunday, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, formally appointed Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister during the swearing-in ceremony. The event saw the formation of the NDA government, comprising 30 cabinet ministers, 36 ministers of state (MoS), and 5 ministers of state with independent charge from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies.
Key Ministerial Assignments 📝
Here is the detailed list of the key portfolios assigned to the cabinet ministers:
- Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
- Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways
- Jagat Prakash Nadda: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development
- Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
- Manohar Lal Khattar: Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; Minister of Power
- H. D. Kumaraswamy: Minister of Heavy Industries; Minister of Steel
- Piyush Goyal: Minister of Commerce and Industry
- Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Education
- Jitan Ram Manjhi: Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh: Minister of Panchayati Raj; Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
- Sarbananda Sonowal: Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
- Virendra Kumar: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu: Minister of Civil Aviation
- Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Minister of New and Renewable Energy
- Jual Oram: Minister of Tribal Affairs
- Giriraj Singh: Minister of Textiles
- Ashwini Vaishnaw: Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
- Jyotiraditya M. Scindia: Minister of Communications; Minister of Development of North Eastern Region
- Bhupender Yadav: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism
- Annpurna Devi: Minister of Women and Child Development
- Kiren Rijiju: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Minority Affairs
- Hardeep Singh Puri: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
- Mansukh Mandaviya: Minister of Labour and Employment; Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
- G. Kishan Reddy: Minister of Coal; Minister of Mines
- Chirag Paswan: Minister of Food Processing Industries
- C R Patil: Minister of Jal Shakti
Ministers of State (Independent Charge) 🌟
- Rao Inderjit Singh: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Ministry of Planning; Ministry of Culture
- Jitendra Singh: Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Prime Minister’s Office; Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space
- Arjun Ram Meghwal: Ministry of Law and Justice; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao: Ministry of Ayush; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Jayant Chaudhary: Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Ministry of Education
Ministers of State 🛡️
- Jitin Prasada: Ministry of Commerce and Industry; Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- Shripad Yesso Naik: Ministry of Power; Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Pankaj Chaudhary: Ministry of Finance
- Krishan Pal: Ministry of Cooperation
- Ramdas Athawale: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Ram Nath Thakur: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Nityanand Rai: Ministry of Home Affairs
- Anupriya Patel: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
- V. Somanna: Ministry of Jal Shakti; Ministry of Railways
- Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani: Ministry of Rural Development; Ministry of Communications
- S. P. Singh Baghel: Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Ministry of Panchayati Raj
- Sobha Karandlaje: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Ministry of Labour and Employment
- Kirtivardhan Singh: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Ministry of External Affairs
- B. L. Verma: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Shantanu Thakur: Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
- Suresh Gopi: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Ministry of Tourism
- L. Murugan: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- Ajay Tamta: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar: Ministry of Home Affairs
- Kamlesh Paswan: Ministry of Rural Development
- Bhagirath Choudhary: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Satish Chandra Dubey: Ministry of Coal; Ministry of Mines
- Sanjay Seth: Ministry of Defence
- Ravneet Singh: Ministry of Food Processing Industries; Ministry of Railways
- Durgadas Uikey: Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- Raksha Nikhil Khadse: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
- Sukanta Majumdar: Ministry of Education; Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
- Savitri Thakur: Ministry of Women and Child Development
- Tokhan Sahu: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary: Ministry of Jal Shakti
- Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma: Ministry of Heavy Industries; Ministry of Steel
- Harsh Malhotra: Ministry of Corporate Affairs; Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
- Murlidhar Mohol: Ministry of Cooperation; Ministry of Civil Aviation
- George Kurian: Ministry of Minority Affairs; Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
- Pabitra Margherita: Ministry of External Affairs; Ministry of Textiles