The new Union Cabinet held its first meeting at the PM’s residence in the evening.
Cabinet minister
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- Rajnath Singh – Ministry of Defense
- Amit Shah – Ministry of Home Affairs
- Nitin Gadkari – Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- JP Nadda – Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan – Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Panchayati Raj
- Nirmala Sitharaman – Ministry of Finance
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar – Ministry of External Affairs
- Manohar Lal Khattar – Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy
- Piyush Goyal – Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Dharmendra Pradhan – Ministry of Education
- Human Rights Leader Jitan Ram Manjhi – Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- JD(U) leader Lalan Singh
- Sarbananda Sonowal – Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
- Virendra Kumar
- Kinjarapu TDP leader Ram Mohan Naidu – Ministry of Civil Aviation
- Prahlad Joshi – Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Sell ​​Oram
- Giriraj Singh – Ministry of Textiles
- Ashwini Vaishnaw – Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- Jyotiraditya Scindia – Ministry of Transport, Ministry of North East Regional Development
- Bhupendra Yadav – Ministry of Environment and Forests
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Culture
- Annpurna Devi – Ministry of Women & Child Development
- Kiren Rijiju – Parliamentary Ministry
- Hardeep Singh Puri – Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of Power
- Mansukh Mandaviya – Ministry of Labor & Employment,
- G Kishan Reddy
- LJP(RV) Chirag Paswan – Ministry of Youth and Sports
- CR Patil – Ministry of Jal Shakti
Minister of State (Independent Duty)
Rao Inderjit Singh
Jitendra Singh
Arjun Ram Meghwal
Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
RLD Chairman Jayant Chaudhary
Minister of state
Jitin Prasada
Shripad Yesso Naik
Pankaj Chaudhary
Krishan Pal
RPI(A) leader Athawale Ramdas Bandu
Ram Nath Thakur
Nityanand Rai
Anupriya Singh Patel
Soman V
TDP MP Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
S.P. Singh Baghel
Shobha Karandlaje
Kirti Vardhan Singh
BL Verma
Shantanu Thakur
Suresh Gopi
L. Murugan
Ajay Tamta – Ministry of Transport and Highways
Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Kamlesh Paswan
Bhagirath Choudhary
Satish Chandra Dubey
Sanjay Seth
Ravneet Singh Bittu
Durga Das Uikey
Raksha Nikhil Khadse
Sukanta Majumdar
Savitri Thakur
Tokhan Sahu
Raj Bhushan Choudhary
Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
Harsh Malhotra – Ministry of Transport and Highways
Nimuben Bambhania
Murlidhar Mohol
George Kurian
Hospital Margherita
A mix of old hands and new faces
At PM Modi 3.0 The council of ministers includes representatives from all corners of the country as well as social groups.
It has 27 ministers from Other Backward Classes, 10 from Scheduled Castes, 5 from Scheduled Tribes and 5 from minorities.
A record 18 senior ministers will head ministries.
The Modi 3.0 Cabinet includes 43 ministers who have served 3 or more terms in Parliament, with 39 having served as ministers in the previous central government. The list includes many former chief ministers and 34 ministers who have served in state legislatures and 23 have worked as ministers in states.
There are also 33 firsts in the rankings. The first seven ministers in the Modi government included allies: K Rammohan Naidu of the TDP and Chandrasekhar Pemmasani; JDU’s Lalan Singh and Ram Nath Thakur, RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary, LJP’s Chirag Paswan and HD Kumaraswamy of the JD(S).
New faces also include Suresh Gopi, the actor-turned-politician who wrote history by becoming the first BJP MP from Kerala.
The BJP’s NDA partner has bagged five cabinet ministerial posts this time, due to none in the outgoing government, as the party depends on its allies for a majority in the Lok Sabha. While the outgoing council of ministers had two ministers of state from BJP allies – Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal (S) and Ramdas Athawale of RPI(A) – this time, there are two ministers of state with independent charge and four. minister of state (MoS).
Nine short of full strength
According to the Indian Constitution, the total strength of the council of ministers cannot exceed 15% of the number of Lok Sabha members.
The strength of the 18th Lok Sabha is 543 members and hence the council of ministers cannot be more than 81.
The 2024 Lok Sabha election results were announced by the Election Commission of India on June 4, BJP won 240 seats and Congress 99 seats. BJP won 303 seats in 2019 general elections and 282 seats in 2014 general elections.
The NDA tally is 293 seats – higher than the majority mark of 272 – and the opposition INDIA bloc 234.
The first session
According to media reports citing sources, the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will begin on June 18 with President Droupadi Murmu expected to address a joint meeting of both sides on June 21.
Members of parliament in the Lower House are expected to be sworn in on June 18-19, after which the Speaker will be elected on June 20.
