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Narendra Modi cabinet portfolios announcement live updates: Amit Shah gets Home, Rajnath Singh Defence, Finance goes to Nirmala Sitharaman in PM Modi’s new cabinet 5/31/2019 1:06:58 PM New Delhi: 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. 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   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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