PM Narendra Modi’s Cabinet Expansion: Here is a full list of ministers’ portfolios

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday not only expanded his council of ministers but reshuffled portfolios of several ministers. Arun Jaitely, besides holding Finance and Corporate Affairs, will now also hold Information and Broadcasting as well. He will also now act as Union Cabinet’s spokesman.

The newly inducted former Goa chief minister Manohar Parikar will look after Defence and Suresh Prabhu the important portfolio of Railways. Sadanad Gowda has been shifted to the Ministry of Law.

So as he brought in 21 new faces and effected changes in the leadership of key ministries, his political calculations in his choice of ministers was also aimed at spreading the party’s footprint in crucial states heading to polls.

Here is a complete list of the Union Cabinet

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Shri Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
2. Smt. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
3. Shri Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting
4. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
6. Shri Manohar Parrikar: Defence
7. Shri Suresh Prabhu: Railways
8. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Law & Justice
9. Sushri Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs
11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
12. Shri Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development
14. Shri Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
15. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology
16. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare
17. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
18. Shri Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
19. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
20. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel
21. Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
22. Shri Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
23. Shri Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
24. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
25. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development
26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

MINISTERS OF STATE

7. General V.K. Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
8. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Defence
9. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge)
10. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
11. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
12. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare
13. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
14. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
15. Shri Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
16. Shri Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
17. Dr. Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
18. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
19. Dr. Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation
20. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
21. Shri Ram Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & Sanitation
22. Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Home Affairs
23. Shri Sanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
24. Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Agriculture
25. Shri Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
26. Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chemicals & Fertilizers
27. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
28. Shri Manoj Sinha: Railways
29. Shri Nihalchand: Panchayati Raj
30. Shri Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development
31. Shri Radhakrishnan P.: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
32. Shri Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
33. Shri Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment
34. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture
35. Shri Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
36. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
37. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel
38. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat: Rural Development
39. Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria: Human Resource Development
40. Shri Y.S. Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth Science
41. Shri Jayant Sinha: Finance
42. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting
43. Shri Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
44. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries
45. Shri Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment

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