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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet Ministers took oath on Thursday evening in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, administered by the President Ramnath Kovind. As many as 24 Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State each and nine Ministers of State (independent charge) have taken oath.

The following table brings the names of the ministers.

Cabinet Ministers	Portfolio
Narendra Modi (Prime Minister)	Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Defence
Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs
Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
DV Sadananda Gowda	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance Minister of Corporate Affairs
Ram Vilas Paswan	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj
Ravi Shankar Prasad	Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Minister of Food Processing Industries
Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’	Minister of Human Resource Development
Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs
Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles
Dr Harsh Vardhan	Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Piyush Goyal	Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minister of Minority Affairs
Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines
Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Arvind Ganpat Sawant	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Giriraj Singh	Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti

Ministry of States (Independent Charges)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment
Rao Inderjit Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning
Shripad Yesso Naik	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence
Dr. Jitendra Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space
Kiren Rijiju	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
Prahalad Singh Patel	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism
Raj Kumar Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of State

Faggansingh Kulaste	Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel
Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Krishan Pal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
G. Kishan Reddy	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Parshottam Rupala	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Ramdas Athawale	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
Babul Supriyo	Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao	Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development; Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Anurag Singh Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa	Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
Nityanand Rai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Rattan Lal Kataria	Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
V. Muraleedharan	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Renuka Singh Saruta	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Som Parkash	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Rameswar Teli	Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Pratap Chandra Sarangi	Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Kailash Choudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Debasree Chaudhuri	Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development

New entrants in the Cabinet

The new entrants in the cabinet include BJP Chief Amit Shah, former Foreign Secretary Dr S. Jaishankar former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, former chief Minister of Jharkhand Arjun Munda, Bihar state party president Nityanand Rai, former minister in Haryana Ratanlal Kataria and General Secretary of West Bengal State Unit of BJP Deboshree Choudhary. Other Ministers of State include Prahlad Joshi (Karnataka) , Renuka Singh Saruta (Chhattisgarh), Som Prakash (Punjab), Rameshwar Teli (Assam), Pratap Chandra Sarangi (Odisha), Kailsah Chaudhury (Rajasthan), Kerala BJP leader V. Muraleedharan and Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena).

Missing names in Modi 2.0

Some of the prominent names which did not make their place in the list of Cabinet Ministers are Sushma Swaraj from the Ministry of External Affairs, JP Nadda from the Ministry of Health and Suresh Prabhu from the Ministry of Commerce.

Arun Jaitley had opted out from the government of 2019-24 citing health reasons.

Other ministers who are not included in the newly formed NDA government for the second consecutive year are MoS Health Anupriya Patel, MoS Information and Broadcasting  (Independent charge) Rajyavardhan Rathore, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Suresh Prabhu, Jual Oram, Radha Mohan Singh, Chaudhary Birendra Singh, Anant Geete, K. Alphons, Satya Pal Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Vijay Goel, Radhakrishnan P., S.S. Ahluwalia, Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, Vishnu Deo Sai, Ram Kripal Yadav, Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary, Rajen Gohain, Krishan Pal, Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Sudarshan Bhagat, Dr. Virendra Kumar, Anantkumar Hegde, Jayant Sinha, Vijay Sampla, Ajay Tamta, Krishna Raj, C.R. Chaudhary, P.P. Chaudhary and Subhash Ramrao Bhamre.

Ministers making re-entry in the Government

The ministers who have been re-inducted in the government include Prahlad Singh Patel, who was minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government; Raosaheb Patil Danve, Maharashtra BJP President; G. Kishan Reddy, Telangana BJP leader and Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, Uttar Pradesh BJP Head.

Danve and Reddy had served the Modi government between 2014 and 2015. Dr Pandey had served the first phase of Modi government as MoS, Human Resource Development in 2016-17.

As per reports, Maneka Gandhi, senior BJP leader and MP is likely to be the Pro-tem Speaker in the 17th Lok Sabha.

Leaders of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) nations attended the Oath-taking ceremony and congratulated Prime Minister Modi and the council of ministers post the ceremony.

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