Modi Govt 2.0 Cabinet Expansion : Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet has expanded on 07 July 2021. The swearing-in program of 43 new ministers has been completed. During this, 15 cabinet ministers and 28 ministers of state took oath of office. Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia and LJP leader Pashupati Paras have been made ministers.
In the cabinet expansion, 7 ministers were promoted while 36 new faces were included in the cabinet. At the same time, many leaders including Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar and Ravi Shankar Prasad had resigned from the ministerial post before the swearing-in ceremony. Let us tell you that after the completion of two years of the second term of the Modi government, for the first time there has been a change in the cabinet.
With the massive reshuffle in the Union Cabinet, a lot of changes have also been made in the portfolios of the ministers. However, the portfolios of most of the big ministers have remained the same. There has been no change in the portfolios of ministers like Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, S. Jaishkar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Arjun Munda, Smriti Irani.
Cabinet Minister List
Amit Shah: Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Cooperation
Nitin Gadkari: Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways
Nirmala Sitharaman: Ministry of Finance, Corporate Affairs
Narendra Singh Tomar – Ministry of Agriculture
S Jaishankar- Ministry of External Affairs
Arjun Munda- Tribal Affairs
Smriti Irani – Ministry of Women and Child Development, Swachh Bharat Mission
Piyush Goyal – Ministry of Commerce, Food Distribution, Textiles
Dharmendra Pradhan – Ministry of Education and Skill Development
Prahlad Joshi – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, also Coal and Mines
Narayan Rane – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Sarbananda Sonowal: Ministry of AYUSH, also matters of North-East
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Ministry of Minority Affairs
Virendra Kumar – Social Justice
Giriraj Singh: Ministry of Rural Development
Jyotiraditya Scindia: Ministry of Civil Aviation
Ramchandra Prasad Singh – Steel
Ashwini Vaishnav – Ministry of Communications with Railways, IT
Pashupati Paras: Ministry of Food Processing
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Ministry of Jal Shakti
Kiren Rijiju: Ministry of Culture
Rajkumar Singh – Energy
Hardeep Singh Puri – Ministry of Petroleum
Mansukh Mandaviya – Health Minister
Bhupendra Yadav: Ministry of Labor
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey – Heavy Industries
Purushottam Rupala: Ministry of Dairying and Fisheries
G Kishan Reddy – Culture, Tourism, North East Region
Anurag Thakur: Information Broadcasting, Sports and Youth
Minister of State Independent Charge
Rao Inderjit Singh, Planning, Corporate
Dr. Jitendra Singh Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
Minister of State List
Shripad Yesso Nayak – Shipping, Shipping & Tourism
Faggan Singh Kulaste – Steel, Rural Development
Prahlad Singh Patel – Jal Shakti, Food Processing
Ashwini Kumar Choubey – Consumer, Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Arjun Meghwal – Parliamentary Affairs, Culture
VK Singh – Road Transport & Highways, Civil Aviation
Krishna Pal – Energy, Heavy Industries
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao – Railway, Coal and Mines
Ramdas Athawale – Social Justice
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti – Consumer Affairs, Rural Development
Sanjeev Balyan – Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, Dairy
Pankaj Choudhary – Finance
Anupriya Patel – Commerce & Industry
SP Singh Baghel – Law and Justice
Rajeev Chandrashekhar – Skill Development, Information Technology
Shobha Karandlje – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Bhanu Pratap Verma – Short, Medium
Darshana Zardosh – Textiles, Railway
V Muraleedharan – External Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
Meenakshi Lekhi – Foreign Culture
Som Prakash – Commerce & Industry
Renuka Singh – Tribal Affairs
Background
Narendra Modi started his second term as Prime Minister in May 2019 with 57 ministers. After this, Prime Minister Modi has expanded for the first time in the Union Council of Ministers. According to the rules, the Union Council of Ministers can have a maximum of 81 members. Uttar Pradesh has got a big share in the cabinet expansion.
