Cabinet reshuffle 2021: In the biggest revamp of the Union Cabinet during the second term of the Narendra Modi government, as many as 43 members, including old and new ministers, were sworn in on Wednesday. Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah is now the new head of the newly formed Ministry of Cooperation. Meanwhile, Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister-in-charge of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Chemicals and Fertilizers, has been given the additional charge of the crucial health ministry as part of the cabinet reshuffle. The ministry was headed by Dr Harshvardhan earlier, who resigned earlier today.
Hours after 43 leaders took oath as ministers in the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday evening as a part of the Cabinet reshuffle exercise, the Centre allocated portfolios to the newly inducted ministers. Ashwini Vasihnaw has been given ministries of Railways, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology. Kiren Rijiju will be the new Minister of Law and Justice.
Anurag Thakur has been made the new I&B Minister, besides holding the Sports portfolio. The I&B portfolio was earlier with Prakash Javadekar, who is out of the Cabinet now. Thakur was earlier the Minister of State for Finance.
Full List of New Cabinet Ministers along with their portfolios:
Narendra Modi Prime Minister
and also in-charge of:
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;
Department of Atomic Energy;
Department of Space;
All important policy issues; and
All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
| CABINET MINISTERS | PORTFOLIOS |
| Raj Nath Singh | Minister of Defence |
| Amit Shah | Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation |
| Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Minister of Road Transport and Highways |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | Minister of External Affairs |
| Arjun Munda | Minister of Tribal Affairs |
| Smriti Zubin Irani | Minister of Women and Child Development |
| Piyush Goyal | Minister of Commerce and Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of Textiles |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | Minister of Education; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| Pralhad Joshi | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines |
| Narayan Tatu Rane | Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| Sarbananda Sonowal | Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of AYUSH |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Minister of Minority Affairs |
| Dr. Virendra Kumar | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Giriraj Singh | Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj |
| Jyotiraditya M. Scindia | Minister of Civil Aviation |
| Ramchandra Prasad Singh | Minister of Steel |
| Ashwini Vaishnaw | Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology |
| Raj Kumar Singh | Minister of Power; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs |
| Mansukh Mandaviya | Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| Bhupender Yadav | Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Labour and Employment |
| Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | Minister of Heavy Industries |
| Parshottam Rupala | Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying |
| G. Kishan Reddy | Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region |
| Anurag Singh Thakur | Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports |
Ministers of State
Pankaj Choudhary
Anupriya Singh Patel
Satya Pal Singh Baghel
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Shobha Karandlaje
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Darshana Vikram Jardosh
Meenakshi Lekhi
Annpurna Devi
A Narayanaswamy
Kaushal Kishore
Ajay Bhatt
BL Verma
Ajay Kumar
Chauhan Devusinh
Bhagwanth Khuba
Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Pratima Bhoumik
Subhas Sarkar
Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Bharati Pravin Pawar
Bishweswar Tudu
Shantanu Thakur
Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai
John Barla
Dr L Murugan
Nishith Pramanik
