It's official: Shah, Rajnath, Nirmala, Jaishankar retain portfolios : Shah retains Home Ministry, Rajnath Defence

 Shivraj debuts as Agriculture Minister, Kumaraswamy gets steel, Portfolios of Sitharaman, Jaishankar, Gadkari remain unchanged

PTI, 10 June 2024 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi's top four ministers -- Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar -- have retained their respective home, defence, finance and external affairs portfolios, according to an official statement. 

Among the new entrants to the Union Cabinet, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been given the agriculture and rural development portfolios, BJP president J P Nadda the health portfolio and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar the power portfolio. 

Nitin Gadkari will continue as road transport minister, while Dharmendra Pradhan will retain his education portfolio. 

Kiren Rijiju has been moved from the earth sciences ministry to the parliamentary affairs ministry, while Arjun Ram Meghwal will continue as law minister. 

Sarbananda Sonowal has retained the shipping portfolio, according to the statement. 

Modi and 71 ministers took oath of office and secrecy on Sunday at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the new agriculture and rural development minister, while BJP president J.P. Nadda has been given the health ministry.

Nadda had held the same portfolio in the Modi government's first term before he took over as the BJP's working president in 2019 and became the full-fledged party president in January 2020 after Amit Shah was appointed as the Union home minister.

The portfolios were announced after Modi held the first meeting of his new cabinet on Monday evening.

The meeting was held at the prime minister's 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, residence a day after the swearing-in of the new NDA government. Modi and 71 ministers took oath of office and secrecy on Sunday at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Here is the complete list of cabinet ministers and their portfolios

• Rajnath Singh - Minister of Defence.
• Amit Shah - Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation
• Nitin Gadkari - Minister of Road Transport and Highways
• JP Nadda - Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan - Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Minister of Rural Development
• Nirmala Sitharaman - Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
• S. Jaishankar - Minister of External Affairs
• Manohar Lal Khattar - Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; and Minister of Power.
• H. D. Kumaraswamy - Minister of Heavy Industries; and Minister of Steel
• Piyush Goyal - Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Dharmendra Pradhan - Minister of Education
• Jitan Ram Manjhi - Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
• Lalan Singh - Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
• Sarbananda Sonowal - Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
• Virendra Kumar - Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
• Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu - Minister of Civil Aviation
• Pralhad Joshi - Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy
• Jual Oram - Minister of Tribal Affairs
• Giriraj Singh - Minister of Textiles
• Ashwini Vaishnaw - Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
• Jyotiraditya M. Scindia - Minister of Communications; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region.
• Bhupender Yadav - Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Minister of Culture; and Minister of Tourism
• Annpurna Devi - Minister of Women and Child Development
• Kiren Rijiju - Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of Minority Affairs
• Hardeep Singh Puri - Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
• Mansukh Mandaviya - Minister of Labour and Employment; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
• G. Kishan Reddy - Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines
• Chirag Paswan - Minister of Food Processing Industries
• C R Patil - Minister of Jal Shakti