Modi’s Council Of Ministers: Who’s In, Who’s Out
Here’s a quick look at the new Narendra Modi government.
Narendra Modi took oath for the second straight time as the prime minister of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday after a massive electoral victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 24 cabinet ministers and 33 ministers of state were also sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind. Amit Shah, too, took oath as a cabinet minister for the first time. Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj, among a few others, however, weren’t part of the new Modi cabinet.
Here’s a quick look at the new Modi cabinet.
A 24-Member Modi Cabinet
Amit Shah, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Shiv Sena’s Arvind Sawant and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Ramesh Pokhriyal, Arjun Munda and Pralhad Joshi are the first-time cabinet ministers in the new Modi cabinet.
- Rajnath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Gadkari
- DV Sadanand Gowda
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Narendra Singh Tomar
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Thawar Chand Gehlot
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
- Arjun Munda
- Smriti 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
Nine Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
- Santosh Gangwar
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Shripad Y Naik
- Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Kiren Rijiju
- Prahlad Singh Patel
- Raj Kumar Singh
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Mansukh Mandaviya
24 Ministers Of State
- Faggan Singh 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
First-Time Ministers
- Amit Shah
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
- Arjun Munda
- Pralhad Joshi
- Arvind Sawant
- Anurag Singh Thakur
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- G. Kishan Reddy
- Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
- Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
- Nityanand Rai
- Rattan Lal Kataria
- V. Muraleedharan
- Renuka Singh Saruta
- Som Parkash
- Rameswar Teli
- Pratap Chandra Sarangi
- Kailash Choudhary
- Debasree Chaudhuri
Greater Women Representation
Modi 2.0 has incorporated six women ministers—the highest in the prime minister’s council of ministers so far.
Women Cabinet Ministers
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Smriti Irani
Women Ministers Of State
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Renuka Singh Saruta
- Debasree Chaudhuri
Little NDA Representation
The BJP won 303 of the 353 Lok Sabha seats that the National Democratic Alliance had won in the general election. That’s reflected in the composition of Modi’s new council of ministers. There’s no representation from the Janata Dal (United). While only one Shiv Sena MP, Arvind Sawant, has found place in the Union cabinet, Ram Vilas Paswan of the Lok Jan Shakti Party and Shiromani Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal are the other NDA leaders in the Union Cabinet.
There is only one minister of state from an NDA ally—Ramdas Athawale of the Republican Party of India (A).
The Missing Ministers
Arun Jaitley, former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and former Water and Sanitation Minister Uma Bharati weren’t included in Modi’s new council of ministers. To be clear, Jaitley had requested Modi to keep him out of the new government due to health issues. Bharati and Swaraj, too, chose to opt out due to ill health.
Missing Cabinet Ministers
- Arun Jaitley
- Sushma Swaraj
- Uma Bharati
- Suresh Prabhu
- Menaka Gandhi
- Jagat Prakash Nadda
- Radha Mohan Singh
- Mahesh Sharma
- Manoj Sinha
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
- Jual Oram
Missing Ministers Of State
- Jayant Sinha
- SS Ahluwalia
- Satya Pal Singh
- KJ Alphons