New Delhi: All the 45 members of Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers took oath along with him on Monday but a final say is yet to be taken on the distribution of portfolios.
While it is almost clear that Bharatiya Janata Party Pesident Rajnath Singh will be inducted as the Home Minister in Modi government, Sushma Swaraj is likely to get External Ministry and Arun Jaitley is likely to get the Finance ministry. It is also being said that Jaitley may be given the additional charge of the Defence Ministry.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to keep a lean Cabinet on the basis of 'minimum government, maximum governance' policy.
Former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu may get either the Urban Development Ministry or Heavy Industries portfolio. Nitin Gadkari, another former party chief is likely to get a cluster of Surface and Shipping, Transport ministries.
The coveted Railways Ministry is likely to go to former Karnataka CM Sadananda Gowda who is making his debut at the Centre.
Najma Heptullah, the oldest MP in Modi's Council of Ministers will most likely be given the Minority Affairs Ministry. Meanwhile, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad may get Law and Telecom ministries.
Smriti Irani who gave a tough fight to Rahul Gandhi in Varanasi and is the youngest Minister is likely to get HRD Ministry. The Information 7 Broadcasting Ministry is likely to go to Prakash Javadekar.
Soon after she took oath, Uma Bharti tweeted that Modi had allotted her Water & Resources portfolio to cleanse river Ganga.
Listed below are the 46 ministers in Modi's Cabinet:
Cabinet ministers:
Narendra Modi, LS MP from Gujarat and UP
Rajnath Singh, LS MP from UP
Arun Jaitley, RS member from Gujarat
Sushma Swaraj, MP from Madhya Pradesh
Nitin Gadkari, MP from Maharashtra
Venkaiah Naidu, RS MP from Karnataka
Sadananda gowda, LS MP from Karnataka - Bangalore North
Ram Vilas Paswan, LJP MP from Bihar
Gopinath Munde, BJP MP from Maharashtra
Kalraj Mishra, BJP MP from UP
Maneka Gandhi, BJP MP from UP
Ananth Kumar, BJP MP from Karnataka - Bangalore South
Ravi Shankar Prasad, BJP MP (RS) from Bihar
Ashok Gadpati Raju, TDP - AP
Ananth Geete, Maharashtra
Harsimrat Kaur, Punjab
Narendra Singh Tomar, MP from MP
Jual Oram, MP from Odisha
Thavarchand Gehlot, MP from MP
Smriti Irani, RS member from Gujarat
Uma Bharti, BJP MP from UP
Najma Heptullah, RS member
Radha Mohan Singh, RSS
Harsh Vardhan, BJP MP from Delhi
MoS Independent - 10
General VK Singh, BJP MP from UP
Santosh Gangwar, BJP MP from MP
Sripad Naik, BJP MP from Goa
Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP RS member from Odisha
Sarbananda Sonowal, MP from Assam
Prakash Javadekar, from Maharashtra, not a Member of Parliament
Piyush Goel, RS member from Mumbai
Jitendra Singh, BJP MP from MP
Nirmala Seetharaman, from TN/AP, not a Member of Parliament
Rao Inderjit, BJP MP from Haryana
MoS - 11
GM Siddeshwara, BJP MP from Karnataka
Manoj Sinha, BJP MP from UP
Nikhil Chand, BJP MP from Rajasthan
Upendra Kushwaha, BJP MP from Bihar
Radhakrishnan P, BJP MP from TN
Kiren Rijiju, BJP MP from Arunachal Pradesh
Krishan Pal Gujar, BJP MP Haryana
Sanjeev Kumar, BJP MP from UP
Balyan Mansukhbhai Vasava, BJP MP from Gujarat
Raosaheb Dadarao Dhanve, BJP MP from Maharashtra
Vishnudev Sai, BJP MP Chhattisgarh
Sudarshan Bhagat, BJP MP Jharkhand
Comments
0 comment