Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for a second term in the presence of 8,000 guests including world leaders, dignitaries, politicians, celebrities, and industrialists on Thursday, exactly a week after he led the BJP to a spectacular victory in the national election. Over 50 ministers joined him in the swearing-in held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The BJP-led NDA returned to power with a massive 352 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP won 303 seats on its own.
The portfolios of the council of ministers in the second term of Modi government is out. Below are the updates:
Shri Narendra Modi – Prime Minister and also in-charge of: 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.
Nirmala Sitharaman has taken over as the new Finance Minister. She succeeds her mentor Arun Jaitley, who bowed out of the government owing to health-related reasons. Nirmala Sitharaman earlier held the defence portfolio.
Former foreign secretary, S. Jaishankar, replaced Sushma Swaraj as the Minister of External Affairs.
Amit Shah, who has been widely credited for the spectacular victory of the BJP, will be the Home Minister in the new government.
Rajnath Singh who held the Home Ministry earlier has now got the defence ministry.
Smriti Irani has been given charge of Women and Child Development Ministry in addition to Ministry of Textiles she already had in the earlier government.
Here is the list of portfolios allocated to the new ministers:
| Name | Ministries |
| PM Narendra Modi | 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. |
| Amit Shah | Minister of Home Affairs |
| Rajnath Singh | Minister of Defence |
| Nitin Gadkari | Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Minister of Finance |
| Piyush Goyal | Minister of Railways and Commerce and Industry |
| S Jaishankar | Minister of External Affairs |
| Ravi Shankar Prasad | Minister of Law; Communication and IT |
| Ramesh Pokhriyal | Minister of Human Resource Development |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj |
| Smriti Irani | Ministry of Women and Child Development; Minister of Textiles. |
| Ram Vilas Paswwan | Minister of Consumer Affairs; Food and Public Distribution |
| Dharmendra Prasad | Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel |
| D.V. Sadananda Gowda | Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| Harsimrat Kaur Badal | Minister of Food Processing Industries |
| Thaawar Chand Gehlot | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Arjun Munda | Minister of Tribal Affairs |
| 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 Information and Broadcasting |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Minister of Minority Affairs |
| Prahlad Joshi | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Coal; and Minister of Mines |
| 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 |
| Ministers of State (Independent Charge) | |
| Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Ministry of Labour and Employment |
| Rao Inderjit Singh | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Ministry of Planning |
| Shripad Yesso Naik | Ministry of AYUSH; and MoS Ministry of Defence |
| Jitendra Singh | Ministry of DoNER; PMO; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space |
| Kiren Rijiju | Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minority Affairs |
| Prahalad Singh Patel | Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism |
| Raj Kumar Singh | Ministry of Power; New and Renewable Energy; and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Civil Aviation; and Commerce and Industry |
| Mansukh L. Mandaviya | Ministry of Shipping; and Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| Ministers of State | |
| Faggansingh Kulaste | Ministry of Steel |
| Ashwini Kumar Choubey | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal | Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises |
| General (Retd.) V. K. Singh | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
| Krishan Pal | Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Danve Raosaheb Dadarao | Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| G. Kishan Reddy | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| Parshottam Rupala | Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| Ramdas Athawale | Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Ministry of Rural Development |
| Babul Supriyo | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
| Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries |
| Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao | Ministry of HRD; Communications; and Electronics and Information Technology |
| Anurag Singh Thakur | Ministry of Finance; and Corporate Affairs |
| Angadi Suresh Channabasappa | Ministry of Railways |
| Nityanand Rai | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| Rattan Lal Kataria | Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Social Justice and Empowerment |
| V. Muraleedharan | Ministry of External Affairs; and Parliamentary Affairs |
| Renuka Singh Saruta | Ministry of Tribal Affairs |
| Som Parkash | Ministry of Commerce and Industry |
| Rameswar Teli | Ministry of Food Processing Industries |
| Pratap Chandra Sarangi | Ministry of MSME; and Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries |
| Kailash Choudhary | Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| Debasree Chaudhuri | Ministry of Women and Child Development. |
Kiren Rijiju has been appointed as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
Jitendra Singh has been appointed as Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, MoS PMO, Ministry of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public grievances and pensions; MoS in the dept of atomic energy & MoS in dept of space.
On being appointed as the minister of animal husbandry, dairy, and fisheries, Giriraj Singh said he comes with experience as he has managed the portfolio in Bihar.
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.
Prahalad Singh Patel: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of 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
Piyush Goyal, reassigned the charge of the crucial railway ministry, is likely to focus on safety, generation of non-fare revenue, track renewal, modernisation and increase in the production of state-of-the-art coaches in his second stint at the helm of the national transporter, official sources said Friday
Anurag Singh Thakur is Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ gets the Ministry of Human Resource Development, which was earlier held by Prakash Javadekar.
A new ‘Jal Shakti’ Ministry, in which the erstwhile ministries of Water Resources and Drinking Water and Sanitation will be merged, has been formed with Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at its helm.
Rajya Sabha member and BJP candidate from Odisha Dharmendra Pradhan will have an expanded role in the new Modi government with the former Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister retaining this key Ministry while given additional charge of the Steel Ministry.
Naqvi, who took oath as a cabinet minister on Thursday, has retained the Minority Affairs Ministry.
Ravi Shankar Prasad has retained the two important ministries in the Modi cabinet that he held charge of — Law and Justice and Electronics and IT — with the addition of Communications as well.
Narendra Singh Tomar has been appointed as the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Tomar will also retain his Rural Development and Panchayati Raj ministries.
Har Vardhan has replaced JP Nadda as Minister of Health and Family Welfare amid speculations that the latter will replace Amit Shah as BJP national president with his induction into the Cabinet. Harsh Vardhan has also retained his earlier portfolios: Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.
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