Cabinet Modes II
The composition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Second Cabinet, formed after India's parliamentary election in 2019 , was announced on May 31, 2019. Some of the ministers from the previous Modi I cabinet remained in office, but often with a new portfolio. There were also many new faces. Important changes were e.g. B. the appointment of Amit Shah as Minister of the Interior, and the diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
When it was first introduced, the cabinet consisted of the Prime Minister, 24 cabinet ministers, 9 ministers of state (state secretaries) with some areas of responsibility and 24 ministers of state. In addition to the Bharatiya Janata Party , four other parties were represented in the cabinet: Shiv Sena , Shiromani Akali Dal , Lok Janshakti Party and the Republican Party of India (Athwale) .
Cabinet Minister
Office | Surname | State | Political party | |
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Prime Minister ( Prime Minister ) based at the Prime Minister: |
Narendra Modi | Gujarat | BJP | |
Defense ( Defense ) | Rajnath Singh | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Interior ( Home Affairs ) | Amit Shah | Gujarat | BJP | |
• land and water traffic |
Nitin Gadkari | Maharashtra | BJP | |
Railways ( Railways ) | DV Sadananda Gowda | Karnataka | BJP | |
• Finance ( Finance ) |
Nirmala Sitharaman | Tamil Nadu | BJP | |
Consumer affairs, food and supplies to the population ( Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ) |
Ram Vilas Paswan | Bihar | LJP | |
Agriculture and Rural Development, Panchayati Raj ( Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj ) |
Narendra Singh Tomar | Madhya Pradesh | ||
Justice, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology ( Law and Justice, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology ) |
Ravi Shankar Prasad | Bihar | BJP | |
Food processing ( food processing ) | Harsimrat Kaur Badal | Punjab | SAD | |
Social Justice and Development ( Social Justice and Empowerment ) | Thawar Chand Gehlot | Madhya Pradesh | BJP | |
State Department ( Foreign Affairs ) | Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | New Delhi | BJP | |
Development of human resources ( Human Resource Development ) | Ramesh Pokhriyal | Uttarakhand | BJP | |
Tribal Affairs ( tribal Affairs ) | Arjun Munda | Jharkhand | BJP | |
Promotion of women and children, Ministry of Textiles ( Women and Child Development, Textiles ) |
Smriti Irani | Maharashtra | BJP | |
Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology, Earth Sciences ( Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology, Earth Sciences ) |
Harsh Vardhan | Delhi | BJP | |
Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Information and Broadcasting ( Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Information and Broadcasting ) |
Prakash Javadekar | Madhya Pradesh | BJP | |
Railway, Trade and Industry ( Railways, Commerce and Industry ) |
Piyush Goyal | Maharashtra | BJP | |
Oil, gas, steel ( Petroleum and Natural Gas, Steel ) | Dharmendra Pradhan | Odisha | BJP | |
Minority Affairs ( Minority Affairs ) | Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Parliamentary Affairs, coal and mining ( Parliamentary Affairs, Coal Mines ) |
Pralhad Joshi | Karnataka | BJP | |
Education and Entrepreneurship ( Skill Development and Entrepreneurship ) |
Mahendra Nath Pandey | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Heavy industries and state-owned enterprises ( Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise ) |
Arvind Ganpat Sawant | Maharashtra | SHS | |
Livestock, dairy farming and fishing ( Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries ) |
Giriraj Singh | Bihar | BJP | |
Jal Shakti | Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Rajasthan | BJP |
Minister of State with his own area of responsibility
The ministers of state with independent charge are most likely to correspond to state secretaries, but have an autonomous area of responsibility.
Area of responsibility | Surname | State | Political party | |
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Labor and Employment ( Labor and Employment ) | Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Planning, Statistics and Program Implementation ( Statistics and Program Implementation, Planning ) |
Rao Inderjit Singh | Haryana | BJP | |
Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani , Siddha and Homeopathy, Defense ( Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH), Defense ) |
Shripad Yesso Naik | Goa | BJP | |
Development of the Northeast Region , Office of the Prime Minister, personnel matters, public grievances and pensions, the Department of Space and Atomic Energy ( Development of North Eastern Region, Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space ) |
Jitendra Singh | Rajasthan | BJP | |
Youth and Sports, Minority Affairs ( Youth Affairs and Sports, Minority Affairs ) |
Kiren Rijiju | Arunachal Pradesh | BJP | |
Culture, Tourism ( Culture, Tourism ) | Prahlad Singh Patel | Madhya Pradesh | BJP | |
Energy, New and Renewable Energy, Education and Entrepreneurship ( Power, New and Renewable Energy, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship ) |
Raj Kumar Singh | Bihar | BJP | |
Apartments and urban affairs, civil aviation, Trade and Industry ( Housing and Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation, Commerce and Industry ) |
Hardeep Singh Puri | Punjab | BJP | |
Shipping, chemicals and fertilizers ( Shipping, Chemicalien and Fertilizers ) |
Mansukh L. Mandaviya | Gujarat | BJP |
Minister of State
State ministers are assigned to a cabinet minister and correspond to state secretaries in terms of their area of responsibility.
Area of responsibility | Surname | State | Political party | |
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Steel ( Steel ) | Faggan Singh Kulaste | Madhya Pradesh | BJP | |
Health and Family Welfare ( Health and Family Welfare ) | Ashwini Kumar Choubey | Bihar | BJP | |
Parliamentary Affairs, heavy industry and public enterprises ( Parliamentary Affairs, Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises ) |
Arjun Ram Meghwal | Rajasthan | BJP | |
Road Transport and Highways ( Road Transport and Highways ) | VK Singh | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Social Justice and Empowerment ( Social Justice and Development ) |
Krishan Pal Gurjar | Bihar | BJP | |
Consumers Angelegenheite, food and public distribution of goods ( Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ) |
Raosaheb Danve | Maharashtra | BJP | |
Interior ( Home Affairs ) | G. Kishan Reddy | Telangana | BJP | |
Agriculture and welfare of the peasantry ( Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ) |
Parshottam Rupala | Tamil Nadu | BJP | |
Social Justice and Development ( Social Justice and Empowerment ) | Ramdas Athawale | Maharashtra | RPI (A) | |
Rural Development ( Rural Development ) |
Niranjan Jyoti | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Environment, Forests and Climate Change ( Environment, Forest and Climate Change ) |
Babul Supriyo | West Bengal | BJP | |
Livestock, dairy farming and fishing ( Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries ) |
Sanjeev Balyan | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | |
Development of human resources, communications, electronics and information technology ( Human Resource Development, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology ) |
Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre | Maharashtra | BJP | |
Finance, Corporate Affairs ( Finance, Corporate Affairs. ) |
Anurag Singh Thakur | Himachal Pradesh | BJP | |
Railway ( Railways ) |
Suresh Angadi | Karnataka | BJP | |
Interior ( Home Affairs ) |
Nityanand Rai | Bihar | BJP | |
Jal Shakti, social justice and development ( Jal Shakti, Social Justice and Empowerment ) |
Rattan Lal Kataria | Haryana | BJP | |
Appearance, Parliament Affairs ( External Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs ) | V. Muraleedharan | Kerala | BJP | |
Tribal Angeles Gene units ( tribal Affair ) | Renuka Singh | Chhattisgarh | BJP | |
Trade and Industry ( Commerce and Industry ) |
Som Parkash | Punjab | BJP | |
Food Processing ( Food Processing Industries ) |
Rameswar Teli | Assam | BJP | |
Small and medium-sized enterprises, livestock farming, dairy farming and fishing ( Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries ) |
Pratap Chandra Sarangi | Odisha | BJP | |
Agriculture and welfare of the peasantry ( Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ) |
Kailash Choudhary | Rajasthan | BJP | |
Women and Child Development ( Women and Child Development ) |
Debasree Chaudhuri | West Bengal | BJP |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Shylaja Varma: Who Gets What: Cabinet portfolios Announced. Full List Here. NDTV, May 31, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2019 .
- ↑ RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN PRESS COMMUNIQUE. (pdf) May 31, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 (English, official publication of the President's Office).