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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 | | | 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
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