Union Council of Ministers with portfolios: PM Modi clearly signalled his political weight in the government by placing Amit Shah as second most senior in the ministerial pecking order just after Rajnath Singh.
Shared News| Updated: May 31, 2019 10:52:36 am
PM Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers with portfolios — complete list: Modi was sworn in along with a 57-member Council of Ministers. (Express Photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in along with a 57-member Council of Ministers, portfolios for ministers are likely to be announced today.
Prime Minister Modi clearly signalled his political weight in the government by placing Amit Shah as the second most senior in the ministerial pecking order just after Rajnath Singh, the Home Minister in the previous government.
The new Council of Ministers has 24 Cabinet ministers, 9 Ministers of State with independent charge and 24 Ministers of State. There are a total of 24 new faces — seven hold Cabinet rank, one Minister of State (independent charge) and 16 Ministers of State.
The Council of Ministers, who were administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan Thursday evening, included his trusted lieutenant and BJP president Amit Shah and a surprise entrant, former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, as Cabinet ministers.
Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj found no place in the new government, as did 36 others from the previous Council of Ministers. Among those excluded are Suresh Prabhu, Maneka Gandhi, Uma Bharti, Mahesh Sharma, Radha Mohan Singh, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Jayant Sinha, Jual Oram and Ram Kripal Yadav.
Here is the complete list of portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers
| Union Cabinet | Portfolio |
| Narendra Modi | |
| Rajnath Singh | |
| Amit Shah | |
| Nitin Gadkari | |
| D. V. Sadananda Gowda | |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | |
| Ramvilas Paswan | |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | |
| Ravi Shankar Prasad | |
| Harsimrat Kaur Badal | |
| Thaawar Chand Gehlot | |
Dr. S Jaishankar | |
| Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ | |
| Arjun Munda | |
| Smriti Zubin Irani | |
| Dr. Harsh Vardhan | |
| Prakash Javadekar | |
| Piyush Goyal | |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | |
| Pralhad Joshi | |
| Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | |
| Arvind Sawant | |
| Giriraj Singh | |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | |
Ministers of State (Independent Charge) | |
| Santosh Kumar Gangwar | |
| Rao Inderjit Singh | |
| Shripad Yesso Naik | |
| Dr. Jitendra Singh | |
| Kiren Rijiju | |
| Prahalad Singh Patel | |
| Raj Kumar Singh | |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | |
| Mansukh L. Mandaviya | |
| Ministers of State | |
| Faggansingh Kulaste | |
| Ashwini Kumar Choubey | |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal | |
| General (Retd.) V. K. Singh | |
| Krishan Pal | |
| Danve Raosaheb Dadarao | |
| G. Kishan Reddy | |
| Parshottam Rupala | |
| Ramdas Athawale | |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | |
| Babul Supriyo | |
| Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | |
| Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao | |
| Anurag Singh Thakur | |
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa | |
| Nityanand Rai | |
| Rattan Lal Kataria | |
| V. Muraleedharan | |
| Renuka Singh Saruta | |
| Som Parkash | |
| Rameswar Teli | |
| Pratap Chandra Sarangi | |
| Kailash Choudhary | |
| Debasree Chaudhuri |
