Along with Narendra Modi, 45 other ministers took the oath of office in his
Council of Ministers on Monday May 26,2014
His Cabinet will have 24 Cabinet
Ministers, 10 Ministers of State with Independent Charge and 12
Ministers of State.
People watching the live telecast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony at BJP office in Mangalore.
People watching the live telecast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony in Ranchi.
Rajnath
Singh was the second minister to be sworn in, followed by Sushma
Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and M. Venkaiah Naidu, the top four members of Team
Modi.
Key
allies Ram Vilas Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party, Shiromani Akali
Dal's Harsimrat Kaur, Ashok Gajapati Raju of the Telugu Desam Party and
Shiv Sena's Anant Geete also got a place in the Council of Ministers
Neither L.K. Advani nor Murli Manohar Joshi found a place in the new Natrnfra Modi Cabinet
Both the oldest, Najma Heptulla(74) and the youngest member Smriti Irani(38) are women.
Most of the ministers come from Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra – the three states that helped the BJP
get a majority on its own
PM Narendra Modi shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif after taking his oath
India's newly appointed Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) is
congratulated by Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai after the former
took oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi
Narendra Modi's coronation saw India Inc's power parade at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Monday.
Indian billionaires turned up in full force.
Big names such as the Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil, with their wives
and mother Kokilaben, Essar's Shashi, Ravi and Prashant Ruia, Fortis'
Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh, Mittal brothers Sunil Rajan and
Rakesh, Kumar Mangalam Birla, infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani and his
wife, London-based business magnate Ashok Hinduja, and Suzlon's Tulsi
Tanti made an appearance
Five of the BJP's 11 alliance partners who won Lok Sabha seats, have
been included in the council of ministers for now. They include Uddhav
Thackeray's Shiv Sena, N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP),Ram Vilas Paswan's
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Parkash Singh Badal's Shiromani Akali Dal
(SAD), and Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party.
Uttar Pradesh, which sent 71 BJP members to the Lok Sabha, has the
largest representation in the Union Council of Ministers - nine
Maharashtra has 7 ministers; it sent 42 MPs belonging to the BJP-Shiv Sena combine to the Lok Sabha.
There are two ministers from north-eastern states, both BJP leaders -
Sarbananda Sonowal, who has been elected from Lakhimpur in Assam, and
Kiren Rijiju, who won from Arunachal West
There are two ministers who are not members of either House of
Parliament - Prakash Javadekar and Nirmala Sitharaman. They will have to
be brought into the Rajya Sabha or Lok Sabha in the next six months.
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Kerala and the soon-to-be-created Telangana have no ministers in Team Modi.
PMO website relaunched within seconds of Narendra Modi's swearing-in on Monday May 26,2014
Within seconds of Narendra Modi taking oath as tehe 15th Prime
Minister of India on Monday, the PMO website was relaunched carrying his
picture and profile.
"As we devote ourselves to take India's development journey to
newer heights, we seek your support, blessings and active
participation," Modi said in his first message on the website.
He added, "Together we will script a glorious future for India.
Let us together dream of a strong, developed and inclusive India that
actively engages with the global community to strengthen the cause of
world peace and development."
List of ministers with portfolios
1)Narendra Modi
- Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
- Department of Atomic Energy
- Department of Space
2)Rajnath Singh
- Home Affairs
3)Sushma Swaraj
- External Affairs
- Overseas Indian Affairs
4)Arun Jaitley
- Defence
- Finance
- Corporate Affairs
5)M Venkaiah Naidu
- Urban Development
- Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Parliamentary Affairs
6)DV Sadananda Gowda - Railways
7)Nitin Gadkari
- Road Transport and Highways
- Shipping
8)Ram Vilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
9)Ashok Gajapathi Raju - Civil Aviation
10)Anant Geete - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
11)Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment
12)Harsh Vardhan - Health and Family Welfare
14)Najma A. Heptulla - Minority Affairs
13)Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
15)Ravi Shankar Prasad - Communications and Information Technology and Law and Justice
16)Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
17)Maneka Sanjay Gandhi- Women and Child Development
18)Ananth Kumar - Chemicals and Fertilizers
19)Gopinathrao Munde - Rural Development ,Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation
20) Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries
21)Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs
22)Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture
23)Narendra Singh Tomar - Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
24)Smriti Zubin Irani - Human Resource Development
Ministers of State
Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
General VK Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge External Affairs
and Overseas Indian Affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao - Planning (Independent Charge),Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)
and Defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Textiles (Independent Charge)Parliamentary Affairs
and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik - Culture (Independent Charge),Tourism (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal - Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and - Sports (Independent Charge)
Prakash Javadekar - Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)and Parliamentary Affairs
Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent Charge),Coal (Independent Charge)and New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh
- Science and Technology (Independent Charge)
- Earth Sciences (Independent Charge)
- Prime Minister's Office
- Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
- Department of Atomic Energy
- Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman
- Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
- Finance
- Corporate Affairs
G.M. Siddeshwara
- Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha
- Railways
Nihalchand
- Chemicals and Fertilizers
Upendra Kushwaha
- Rural Development
- Panchayati Raj
- Drinking Water and Sanitation
Radhakrishnan P
- Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju
- Home Affairs
Krishan Pal
- Road Transport and Highways
- Shipping
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Agriculture
- Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava
- Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve
- Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai
- Mines
- Steel
- Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat
- Social Justice and Empowerment
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