President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy in Hindi to Modi at a ceremony attended by thousands of people at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan
Sushma Swaraj, Suresh Prabhu, V.K. Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Jayant Sinha and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were among the Union Ministers missing from the dais for ministers to be inducted in the new Modi government.
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, Here are the portfolio for Cabinet Minister is:
Modi Cabinet 2.0: List of new Council of Ministers 2019 |
Portfolio | Cabinet Ministers |
Minister of Home Affairs | Amit Shah |
Minister of Defence | Rajnath Singh |
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways | Nitin Gadkari |
Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs | Nirmala Sitharaman |
Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Textile | Smriti Irani |
Minister of External Affairs | S Jaishankar |
Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Communications and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology | Ravi Shankar Prasad |
Minister of Chemical and Fertilizers | D.V. Sadananda Gowda |
Minister of Food Processing Industries | Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Minister of Skill development and Entrepreneurship | Mahendra Nath Pandey |
Arvind Sawant | |
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Coal and Minister ofMines | Prahlad Joshi |
Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry | Piyush Goyal |
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting | Prakash Javadekar |
Minister of Minority Affairs | Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution | Ram Vilas Paswan |
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment | Thawar Chand Gehlot |
Giriraj Singh | |
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | |
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare , Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj | Narendra Singh Tomar |
Arjun Munda | |
Dr Harshavardhan | |
Dharmendra Pradhan | |
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank |