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Cabinet reshuffle: Full list of ministers in Narendra Modi’s government

Modi Government Cabinet Reshuffle: Ahead of the rejig, 12 ministers resigned including Ravi Shankar Prasad, Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javdekar, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Santosh Gangwar.

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President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with the Council of Ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi effected a major overhaul of the Union cabinet, Mansukh Mandavia was appointed as the new Health Minister and bureaucrat-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw the new Railway Minister on Wednesday.

Jyotiraditya Scindia has been made the Civil Aviation Minister, while Home Minister Amit Shah has been given the charge of the newly-created Ministry of Cooperation. Piyush Goyal will now be the Minister of Textiles, while Dharmendra Pradhan has been given the portfolios of Education Ministry and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. While Hardeep Singh Puri will be the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs Minister. Kiren Rijiju, who was assigned the law ministry, was moved to Earth Sciences on May 18, 2023, and replaced by Arjun Ram Meghwal.

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Among the new ministers who were inducted into the Union Cabinet are BJP’s Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Shobha Karandlaje, Sunita Duggal, Meenakshi Lekhi, Bharati Pawar, Shantanu Thakur and Kapil Patil; JD(U)’s R C P Singh, LJP’s Pashupati Paras, and Apna Dal’s Anupriya Patel.

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The seven ministers of state who were promoted are Anurag Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Paroshottam Rupala, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya and Raj Kumar Singh.

Meanwhile, ahead of the much-anticipated reshuffle, twelve ministers resigned. Among the big names to resign are IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Environment Minister Prakash Javdekar, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar.

Other ministers who are out of the Cabinet are Babul Supriyo, Sadananda Gowda, Debasree Chaudhuri, Rattan Lal Kataria, Sanjay Dhotre, Thawarchand Gehlot, Pratap Chandra Sarangi (MoS) and Ashwini Chaubey (MoS).

Here is the complete list of ministers who were newly inducted into the Union Cabinet on Wednesday:

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister and also in-charge of:

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;

Department of Atomic Energy;

Department of Space;

All important policy issues; and

All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

CABINET MINISTERS

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1.	Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Defence
2.	Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation
3.	Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways
4.	Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs
5.	Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
6.	Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs
7.	Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs
8.	Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Women and Child Development Minister of Minority Affairs

9	Piyush Goyal	Minister of Commerce and Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of Textiles
10.	Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Education; and Story continues below this ad Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
11.	Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines
12.	Narayan Tatu Rane	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13.	Sarbananda Sonowal	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of AYUSH
14.	Dr Virendra Kumar	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
15.	Giriraj Singh	Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj
16.	Jyotiraditya M. Scindia	Minister of Civil Aviation
17.	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	Minister of Steel
18.	Ashwini Vaishnaw	Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications; and Story continues below this ad Minister of Electronics and Information Technology

19.	Pashu Pati Kumar Paras	Minister of Food Processing Industries
20.	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti
21.	Kiren Rijiju	Minister of Earth Sciences
22.	Raj Kumar Singh	Minister of Power; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy
23.	Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
24.	Mansukh Mandaviya	Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
25.	Bhupender Yadav	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Story continues below this ad Minister of Labour and Employment
26.	Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Heavy Industries
27.	Parshottam Rupala	Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
28.	G Kishan Reddy	Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region
29.	Anurag Singh Thakur	Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
30.	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of Law and Justice Also, Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

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Rao Inderjit Singh

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation;

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and

Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Dr Jitendra Singh

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology;

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences;

Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office;

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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

MINISTERS OF STATE

Shripad Yesso Naik

Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and

Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism

Faggansingh Kulaste

Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel; and

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Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development

3.	Prahalad Singh Patel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
4.	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
5.	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture Also, Minister of Law and Justice
6.	General (Retd) V K Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
7.	Krishan Pal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries
8.	Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways; Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines
9.	Ramdas Athawale	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
10.	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
11.	Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying

12.	Nityanand Rai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
13.	Pankaj Chaowdhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
14.	Anupriya Singh Patel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
15.	S P Singh Baghel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice
16.	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
17.	Shobha Karandlaje	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
18.	Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma	Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19.	Darshana Vikram Jardosh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
20.	V Muraleedharan	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
21.	Meenakashi Lekhi	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
22.	Som Parkash	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry

23	Renuka Singh Saruta	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24.	Rameswar Teli	Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
25.	Kailash Choudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
26.	Annpurna Devi	Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
27.	A Narayanaswamy	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
28.	Kaushal Kishore	Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
29.	Ajay Bhatt	Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
30.	B L Verma	Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation
31.	Ajay Kumar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
32.	Devusinh Chauhan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications

33.	Bhagwanth Khuba	Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
34.	Kapil Moreshwar Patil	Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
35.	Pratima Bhoumik	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
36.	Dr Subhas Sarkar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
37.	Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
38.	Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
39.	Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
40.	Bishweswar Tudu	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
41.	Shantanu Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
42.	Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH
43.	John Barla	Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs

44.

Dr L Murugan

Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; and

Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

45.

Nisith Pramanik

Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; and

Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

What the cabinet looked like till July 6

Name	Ministry
Narendra Modi	Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
Rajnath Singh	Ministry of Defence
Amit Shah	Ministry of Home Affairs
Nitin Gadkari	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
	Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Nirmala Sitharaman	Ministry of Finance Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Narendra Singh Tomar	Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Ministry of Rural Development Ministry of Panchayati Raj Ministry of Food Processing Industries
	Ministry of Law and Justice Ministry of Communications Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Ministry of External Affairs
	Ministry of Education
Arjun Munda	Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Smriti Zubin Irani	Ministry of Women and Child Development Ministry of Textiles
	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Earth Sciences
	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Piyush Goyal	Ministry of Railways Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Dharmendra Pradhan	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry of Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Ministry of Minority Affairs
Pralhad Joshi	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Coal Ministry of Mines
Mahendra Nath Pandey	Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Giriraj Singh	Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Ministry of Jal Shakti

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Name	Ministry
	Ministry of Labour and Employment
Rao Inderjit Singh	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry of Planning
Shripad Yesso Naik	Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
Jitendra Singh	Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Kiren Rijiju	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Prahalad Singh Patel	Ministry of Culture Ministry of Tourism
Raj Kumar Singh	Ministry of Power Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Hardeep Singh Puri	Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry of Civil Aviation
Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Ministry of Shipping

Ministers of State

Name	Ministry
Shripad Yesso Naik	Ministry of Defence
Dr. Jitendra Singh	Prime Minister’s Office Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
Kiren Rijiju	Ministry of Minority Affairs
Raj Kumar Singh	Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Hardeep Singh Puri	Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Faggansingh Kulaste	Ministry of Steel
	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Arjun Ram Meghwal	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
General (Retd.) V.K. Singh	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Krishan Pal	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
G. Kishan Reddy	Ministry of Home Affairs
Parshottam Rupala	Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Ramdas Athawale	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Ministry of Rural Development
	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
	Ministry of Education Ministry of Communications Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Anurag Singh Thakur	Ministry of Finance Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Nityanand Rai	Ministry of Home Affairs
	Ministry of Jal Shakti Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
V. Muraleedharan	Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Renuka Singh Saruta	Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Som Parkash	Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Rameswar Teli	Ministry of Food Processing Industries
	Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Kailash Choudhary	Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
	Ministry of Women and Child Development

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