The 58-member Union Council of Ministers includes those holding the 25 Cabinet ranks, nine Ministers of State (Independent charge) and 24 Ministers of state.
New Delhi, 31st May 2019: Amit Shah, the Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha MP from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, is the new Home minister of India in the Narendra Modi government while Rajnath Singh becomes the Defence Minister. India’s new Finance Minister is Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar new External Affairs Minister. Additionally, Ravi Shankar Prasad becomes Law Minister.
The 58-member Union Council of Ministers includes those holding the 25 Cabinet ranks, nine Ministers of State (Independent charge) and 24 Ministers of state.
Here is the Union Council of Ministers and their portfolios:
| Union Council of Ministers | |
|---|---|
| Name | Portfolios |
| Cabinet Ministers | |
| 1. Narendra Modi | Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space |
| 2. Rajnath Singh | Defence Minister |
| 3. Amit Shah | Home Minister |
| 4. Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Minister of Road Transport and Highways |
| 5. DV Sadananda Gowda | Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| 6. Nirmala Sitharaman | Finance Minister |
| 7. Ramvilas Paswan | Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| 8. Narendra Singh Tomar | Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| 9. Ravi Shankar Prasad | Minister of Law and Justice |
| 10. Harsimrat Kaur Badal | Minister of Food Processing Industries |
| 11. Thaawar Chand Gehlot | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| 12. Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | Minister of External Affairs |
| 13. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ | Minister of Human Resource Development |
| 14. Arjun Munda | Minister of Tribal Affairs |
| 15. Smriti Zubin Irani | Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles |
| 16. Dr. Harsh Vardhan | |
| 17. Prakash Javadekar | |
| 18. Piyush Goyal | |
| 19. Dharmendra Pradhan | |
| 20. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | |
| 21. Pralhad Joshi | |
| 22. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | |
| 23. Arvind Ganpat Sawant | |
| 24. Giriraj Singh | |
| 25. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | |
| Ministers of State (Independent Charge) | |
| 1. Santosh Kumar Gangwar | |
| 2. Rao Inderjit Singh | |
| 3. Shripad Yesso Naik | |
| 4. Dr. Jitendra Singh | |
| 5. Kiren Rijiju | |
| 6. Prahalad Singh Patel | |
| 7. Raj Kumar Singh | |
| 8. Hardeep Singh Puri | |
| 9. Mansukh L Mandaviya | |
| Ministers of State | |
| 1. Faggansingh Kulaste | |
| 2. Ashwini Kumar Choubey | |
| 3. Arjun Ram Meghwal | |
| 4. General (Retd.) VK Singh | |
| 5. Krishan Pal | |
| 6. Danve Raosaheb Dadarao | |
| 7. G Kishan Reddy | |
| 8. Parshottam Rupala | |
| 9. Ramdas Athawale | |
| 10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | |
| 11. Babul Supriyo | |
| 12. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | |
| 13. Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao | |
| 14. Anurag Singh Thakur | |
| 15. Angadi Suresh Channabasappa | |
| 16. Nityanand Rai | |
| 17. Rattan Lal Kataria | |
| 18. V Muraleedharan | |
| 19. Renuka Singh Saruta | |
| 20. Som Parkash | |
| 21. Rameswar Teli | |
| 22. Pratap Chandra Sarangi | |
| 23. Kailash Choudhary | |
| 24. Debasree Chaudhuri | |
The Union Council of Ministers, which has representation from 21 states, will hold its first meeting on Friday around 5 pm. A day earlier, Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister for the second consecutive term. PM Modi, 68, and 57 other ministers were administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony at the forecourt of the majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan. Uttar Pradesh has the maximum representation with nine ministers led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Maharashtra has eight ministers, Bihar six followed by Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka with five and four respectively. Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana have three ministers each. Jharkhand, Odisha, Punjab and West Bengal have two ministers each while Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana and Uttarakhand have one each.
Prasanta Patnaik