Expansion and reshuffle in Modi cabinet, know! who’s in, who’s out

New Delhi: Expansion and major reshuffle has been done in the Union Council of Ministers on Wednesday. 11 outgoing ministers have been discharged. In their place, 36 new faces have been included in the cabinet, while 7 current ministers of state have been promoted and included in the cabinet. 8 new faces were also given the status of cabinet ministers. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to all 43 members inducted in the Council of Ministers in a ceremony held at the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolios of all these ministers have also been divided. Let us know who got which ministry and whose leave.

Narendra Modi (Prime Minister)
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space. All important policy issues and all those departments which have not been allocated to any minister.

Cabinet Minister
1 Rajnath Singh: Ministry of Defense
2 Amit Shah: Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Cooperation
3 Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways (Ministry of MSME removed)
4 Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs
5 Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
6S Jaishankar: External Affairs Minister
7 Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
8 Smriti Irani: Ministry of Women and Child Development

9. Piyush Goyal: Minister of Commerce and Industry, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Minister of Textiles
10. Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister for Education, 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, Minister of AYUSH
14. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs Minister
15. Virendra Kumar: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
16. Giriraj Singh: Minister of Rural Development, and Minister of Panchayati Raj
17. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia: Civil Aviation Minister
18. Ramchandra Prasad Singh: Minister of Steel
19. Ashwini Vaishnav: Minister of Railways, Minister of Communications, and Minister of Electronics-Information Technology
20. Pashupati Kumar Paras: Minister of Food Processing, Industries
21. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Jal Shakti
22. Kiren Rijiju: Minister of Law and Justice
23. Raj Kumar Singh: Minister of Power, Minister of Energy
24. Hardeep Singh Puri: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
25. Mansukh Mandaviya: Minister of Health and Family Welfare, and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
26. Bhupendra Yadav: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Minister of Labor and Employment
27. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Heavy Industries
28. Purushottam Rupala: Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
29. G. Kishan Reddy: Minister of Culture, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Development of the North Eastern Region
30. Anurag Singh Thakur: Minister of Information and Broadcasting, and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

Minister of State (Independent Charge)

1. Rao Inderjit Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
2. 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, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy Minister of State in the Department and Minister of State in the Department of Space

State Minister

1. Shripad Yesso Naik: Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
2. Faggan Singh Kulaste: Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
3. Prahlad 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
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. Krishna 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 Chaudhary: 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. Rajiv Chandrashekhar: 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. Meenakshi Lekhi: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
22. Som Prakash: Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
23. Renuka Singh Saruta: Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24. Rameshwar Teli: Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labor and Employment
25. Kailash Chaudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
26. Annapurna 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 Kishor: 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 the 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 Chouhan: Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
33. Bhagwant Khuba Ru 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
34. Pratima Bhowmik: Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
35. Dr. Subhash Sarkar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
36. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
37. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
38. Dr. Bharti Praveen Pawar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
39. Bishweshwar Tudu: Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
40. Shantanu Thakur: Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
41. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai: Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, and Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH
42. John Barla: Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
43. 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
44. Nisith Pramanik: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports