Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close aide and BJP president, has been given the charge of the home ministry while Rajnath Singh has been appointed as the minister of defence.
This comes a day after Modi’s new cabinet took oath as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a massive majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
One of the most prominent exclusions from the cabinet is of Arun Jaitley. In a letter addressed to Modi, Jaitley had said he does not want to be a minister in the new BJP government due to health reasons. Sushma Swaraj is also not part of the new cabinet.
Modi will be in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, all important policy issues and other portfolios not allocated to any minister.
Here are the portfolios of the ministers in the new cabinet:
Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs
Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
S Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs
Ramesh Pokhriyal: Minister of Human Resource Development
Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Smriti Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development, Minister of Textiles
D. V. Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemical and Fertilizers
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
Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways, Minister of Commerce and Industry
Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Earth Sciences
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minister of Minority Affairs
Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Minister of Steel
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Coal, and Minister of Mines
Arvind Sawant: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Minister of Rural Development, Minister of Panchayati Raj
Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Giriraj Singh: Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Jal Shakti