Ending all speculations, the Centre has released the list of portfolios of the newly inducted council of ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Former home minister Rajnath Singh has been appointed as the Defence Minister. BJP chief Amit Shah will become the new Home Minister, while Nirmala Sitharaman replaces Arun Jaitley as the Finance Minister. Former foreign affairs secretary S. Jaishankar will succeed Sushma Swaraj as the external affairs minister.
Nirmala Sitharaman has pipped leaders such as Piyush Goyal, who had taken charge as the interim finance minister in the previous government, to become the finance minister. She has also been given the charge of Corporate Affairs ministry.
PM Modi will be in charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space.
Here's the list of all ministers and their portfolios:
Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
Amit Shah : Minister of Home Affairs
Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
DV Sadanand Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance; and Corporate Affairs
Ram Vilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Development; and Panchayati Raj
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice; Communications; and Electronics and Information Technology
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries
Thawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr. S Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: Minister of Human Resource Development
Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
Smriti Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development; Textiles
Dr. Harshvardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Science and Technology; and Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Information and Broadcasting
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Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways; and Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minister of Minority Affairs
Prahalad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Coal; and Mines
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Arvind Sawant: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Giriraj Singh: Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Jal Shakti
The ministers of state with independent charge are Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Rao Inderjit Singh, Shripad Yesso Naik, Dr Jitendra Singh, Kiren Rijiju, Prahalad Singh Patel, R.K. Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri and Mansukh Mandaviya.
The ministers of state included Faggan Singh Kulaste, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Arjun Ram Meghwal, V.K. Singh, Krishan Pal, Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, G. Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala, Ramdas Athawale, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Babul Supriyo, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Kailash Choudhary, Debashree Chaudhuri and Anurag Singh Thakur.
