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Cabinet Portfolio Announcement: Who gets what in PM Modi's new govt

Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S. Jaishankar retain ministries, while multiple new faces also emerge in the cabinet

Our Web Desk Published 10.06.24, 07:29 PM
The portfolios will be announced shortly today.

The portfolios will be announced shortly today. PTI picture.

  • Sukanta Majumdar is MoS education and DoNER, Tokhan Sahu is MoS housing, Harsh Malhotra is MoS road transport and corporate affairs
  • Nimuben Bambhaniya is MoS for consumer affairs, Pabitra Margherita is MoS for external affairs and textiles
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  • Durga Das Uikey is MoS tribal affairs, Raksha Khadse is MoS youth affairs and sports, Savitri Thakur is MoS women and child development
  • JD(U) MP Ram Nath Thakur, son of Karpoori Thakur, has been appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  • Jayant Chaudhary, the MP from Rashtriya Lok Dal, an ally of BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has entered the cabinet as Minister of State (Independent Charge). Chaudhary has been allocated the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
  • Mansukh Mandaviya gets labour, youth affairs and sports portfolios; Virendra Kumar retains social justice ministry
  • G Kishan Reddy has been appointed as the Minister of Coal and Minister of Mines in Prime Minister Modi's Cabinet in the third term
  • Jual Oram, the BJP MP from Odisha, has been allocated the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Giriraj Singh has been appointed as the Minister of Textiles
  • Jitendra Singh back as minister with 6 portfolios, including independent charge for Science and Tech, Earth Sciences; to continue as MoS PMO: PTI
  • Rajiv Rajan Singh, also known as Lalan Singh, an MP from JD(U) and a close of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has been appointed as the Minister of Panchayati Raj and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been given charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
  • Pralhad Joshi, who served as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in Modi 2.0, has been appointed the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Minister of New and Renewable Energy in Modi 3.0
  • Hardeep Singh Puri has retained the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Cabinet. Sarbananda Sonowal has been allocated the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
  • Annpurna Devi, the BJP MP who held the charge of Minister of State in the Ministry of Education India in the previous Cabinet, has been appointed the new Minister of Women and Child Development
  • Chirag Paswan from the Lok Jan Shakti (Paswan) has been appointed to the Ministry of Food Processing
  • Piyush Goyal, who won the Mumbai North constituency in the Lok Sabha Elections, has retained the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • Jyotiraditya Scindia has been allocated the Ministry of Telecommunication. He was the Minister of Civil Aviation in the last Cabinet, he has been replaced by Ram Mohan Naidu, a young MP from TDP, a key ally of the BJP
  • BJP MP and party chief JP Nadda, has been assigned the Ministry of Health in Modi 3.0. Mr Nadda will be replacing Mansukh Mandaviya. The former Health Minister has been given the Ministry of Labour and Employment in the Cabinet
  • HD Kumaraswamy, the MP from BJP ally Janata Dal (Secular), has been allocated the Ministry of Heavy Industries
  • Dharmendra Pradhan has retained the Ministry of Education in Modi 3.0. Bhupendra Yadav has also retained the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India
  • Kiren Rijiju, who was the Minister of Earth Sciences, And Minister of Food Processing Industries in the previous term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet, has been appointed the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, replacing Prahlad Joshi
  • CR Patil, the BJP MP from Gujarat, has been appointed as the Minister of Jal Shakti in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet
  • Ram Mohan Naidu from BJP's ally Telugu Desam Party, has been appointed the Civil Aviation Minister. The young MP will take over the ministry from Jyotiraditya Scindia, who won the Guna seat in Madhya Pradesh
  • Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who took oath yesterday, has been appointed the new Agriculture Minister
  • Jitan Ram Manjhi from Hindustani Awam Morcha, an ally of the BJP, has been allocated the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises: NDTV
  • Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra have been appointed as Ministers of State in the ministry: NDTV
  • Ashwini Vaishnaw has retained Railways Ministry, a key portfolio in the Cabinet. He has been given an additional charge as the Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Anurag Thakur, the BJP MP from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, was the I&B minister in the Modi cabinet in the previous term: NDTV
  • Shripad Yesso Naik has been appointed Minister of State, Power, while Tokhan Sahu has been appointed as MoS, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs: NDTV
  • Former Chief Minister of Haryana and first-time MP, Manohar Lal Khattar, has been allocated the Power Ministry along with Housing and Urban Affairs, reports PTI
  • Shivraj Singh Chouhan is new agriculture and rural development minister; J P Nadda gets health ministry: PTI
  • S Jaishankar and Nirmala Sitharaman retain external affairs and finance portfolios respectively: PTI
  • Nitin Gadkari retains road transport ministry; Dharmendra Pradhan to continue as education minister, reports PTI
  • Amit Shah retains home ministry, Rajnath Singh defence: Reports
  • In the first Cabinet meeting of 3.0, the ministers agreed to provide assistance to 3 crore additional rural and urban households for the construction of houses, to meet the housing requirements arising out of the increase in the number of eligible families, reports NDTV
  • Ministers have started arriving for the first Cabinet meeting of 3.0 at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence, reports NDTV

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