Modi's new cabinet

The portfolios have been distributed among the members of the new Cabinet of India.

This time too Amit Shah will handle the responsibility of Home Minister and Defense Ministry will be in the hands of Rajnath Singh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again trusted S Jaishankar as the foreign minister. Like these three important ministries, the position of the country's finance minister has not changed. Nirmala Sitharaman will handle the finance ministry in the new government.

This time, the BJP, which did not get a single majority in the Lok Sabha elections, had to form a coalition government. He had to give cabinet posts to NDA alliance partners.

Bihar Lok Jan Shakti Dal (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan has been given the charge of food processing ministry as a coalition partner. Actor-turned-politician Chirag Paswan (41) is the first full-fledged minister in the central government of India.

Jitan Ram Manjhi, founder of the Hindustan Awam Morcha-Secular (HM-S) party in another alliance, Sharik Bihar, has been made minister in the Ministry of Small, Cottage and Medium Industries.

JD-U leader Rajeev Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh) of the Janata Dal (United) led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has become important in the formation of Narendra Modi's government this time, has been made the Minister of Panchayat Raj and the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy.

BJP president JP Nadda will handle the health ministry.

Nitin Gadkari will handle the responsibility of the Ministry of Road Transport in the new government.

Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra will serve as state ministers here. Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been given the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat became the Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ashwini Vaishna got the responsibility of Railways, Information and Broadcasting Ministry and Electronics and Information Technology Ministry, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu became the Civil Aviation Minister, Annapurna Devi became the Minister of Women and Child Development.

Manohar Lal Khattar has been given the charge of Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Ministry of Power, HD Kumaraswamy has been made Minister of Heavy Industries and Steel, Piyush Goyal has been made Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dharmendra Pradhan has been made Minister of Education, Sarbananda Sonowal will handle the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Navigation, Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry has been given to Virendra Kumar, Prahlad Joshi has been given the Food and Renewable Energy Ministry, Jual Oram has been given the Minority Affairs Ministry, Giriraj Singh has been given the Textiles Ministry, Jyotiraditya M Scindia has been given the Telecom Ministry and North Eastern Development Affairs Ministry, Bhupender Yadav has been given charge of environment, forest and climate change ministry, Kiren Rijiju has been given charge of parliamentary affairs and minority affairs.

Hardeep Singh Puri became Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mansukh Mandavia Minister of Labor and Employment and Ministry of Youth and Sports, G Kishan Reddy Minister of Coal and Ministry of Mines and CR Patil Minister of Water Resources.

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