Second Modi ministry

The 23rd Ministry of the Republic of India is the Council of Ministers headed by Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2019 general election which was held in seven phases in 2019. The results of the election were announced on 23 May 2019 and this led to the formation of the 17th Lok Sabha. The swearing-in ceremony was arranged in the courtyards of Rashtrapati Bhavan at Raisina Hill. The heads of the states of BIMSTEC countries were invited as guests of honor for this ceremony.

Second Modi ministry
23rd Ministry of the Republic of India
Date formed30 May 2019
People and organisations
Head of stateRam Nath Kovind
Head of governmentNarendra Modi
No. of ministers57
Member partiesNational Democratic Alliance (India)
Bharatiya Janata Party
Lok Janshakti Party
Shiromani Akali Dal
Republican Party of India (A)
Status in legislatureMajority
History
Election(s)2019
Outgoing election2014
Legislature term(s)5 years
PredecessorFirst Modi ministry

List of Council members

Council portfolios are as follows:[1]

Cabinet Ministers

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
Prime Minister
Minister 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.
 Narendra Modi30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Finance
Minister of Corporate Affairs
 Nirmala Sitharaman30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
 Nitin Gadkari30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Railways
Minister of Commerce and Industry
 Piyush Goyal30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Textiles
Minister of Women and Child Development
 Smriti Irani30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers D. V. Sadananda Gowda30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal30 May 2019IncumbentSAD
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan30 May 2019IncumbentLJP
Minister of Law and Justice
Minister of Communications
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
 Ravi Shankar Prasad30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Minister of Steel
 Dharmendra Pradhan30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Minister of Rural Developement
Minister of Panchayati Raj
 Narendra Singh Tomar30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Minister of Science and Technology
Minister of Earth Sciences
 Harsh Vardhan30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
 Prakash Javdekar30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Mahendra Nath Pandey30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Minister of Coal
Minister of Mines
 Pralhad Joshi30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Giriraj Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Arvind Sawant30 May 201911 November 2019[2]SS
 Prakash Javadekar[2]12 November 2019IncumbentBJP
Reference: Official Government of India publication, 31 May 2019

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Planning
 Rao Inderjit Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
 Shripad Yesso Naik30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Development of North Eastern Region
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office
Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy
Minister of State in the Department of Space
 Jitendra Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Youth Affairs and Sports
Minister of State of Minority Affairs
 Kiren Rijiju30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Culture
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Tourism
 Prahlad Singh Patel30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Power
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of New and Renewable Energy
Minister of State of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
 Raj Kumar Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Housing and Urban Affairs
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Civil Aviation
Minister of State of Commerce and Industry
 Hardeep Singh Puri30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Shipping
Minister of State of Chemicals and Fertilizers
 Mansukh L. Mandaviya30 May 2019IncumbentBJP

Ministers of State

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel Faggan Singh Kulaste30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
 Arjun Ram Meghwal30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways V. K. Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Pal Gurjar30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Raosaheb Danve30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Parshottam Rupala30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale30 May 2019IncumbentRPI(A)
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Babul Supriyo30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Sanjeev Kumar Balyan30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development
Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
 Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
 Anurag Thakur30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways Suresh Angadi30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
 Rattan Lal Kataria30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
 V. Muraleedharan30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs Renuka Singh30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Som Parkash30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries Rameswar Teli30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
 Pratap Chandra Sarangi30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary30 May 2019IncumbentBJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri30 May 2019IncumbentBJP

Outgoing Ministers

These are the Ministers which were part of the First Modi ministry but were not included in the Second Modi ministry. These includes Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Suresh Prabhu, Uma Bharti, Maneka Gandhi, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Radha Mohan Singh, Satyapal Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Jayant Sinha, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Ram Kripal Yadav, Alphons Kannanthanam, Jual Oram, Vijay Goyal, Chaudhary Birender Singh, S. S. Ahluwalia, Subhash Bhamre, Anant Geete, Hansraj Ahir, Sudarshan Bhagat, Vijay Sampla, P. P. Chaudhary, Ajay Tamta and Anupriya Patel.

Sushma Swaraj announced in November 2018 to not contest the 2019 General election due to her health related issues.[3] Arun Jaitley also gave his ill health as reason for excluding from ministry.[4] Uma Bharti became National Vice-President of BJP and did not contest the elections.[5]

Demographics of the Council of Ministers

NDA Cabinet by Party

Party # Cabinet Ministers # Ministers of State (I) # Ministers of State Total number of ministers
Bharatiya Janata Party 22 9 23 54
Shiromani Akali Dal 1 0 0 1
Lok Janshakti Party 1 0 0 1
Republican Party of India (A) 0 0 1 1
Total 24 9 24 57

NDA Cabinet by State

State # Cabinet Ministers # Ministers of State(I) # Ministers of State Total number of ministers
Arunachal Pradesh 1 1
Andhra Pradesh
Assam 1 1
Bihar 3 1 2 6
Chhattisgarh 1 1
Goa 1 1
Gujarat 2 1 1 4
Haryana 1 2 3
Himachal Pradesh 1 1
Jharkhand 2 2
Karnataka 3 1 4
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh 4 1 2 7
Maharashtra 2 3 5
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Orissa 1 1
Punjab 1 1 2
Rajasthan 1 2 3
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana 1 1
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh 4 2 3 9
Uttarakhand 1 1
West Bengal 2 2
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Delhi 1 1
Jammu and Kashmir 1 1
Ladakh
Lakshadweep
Puducherry
Total 24 9 24 57

References

  1. "Who Gets What: Cabinet Portfolios Announced. Full List Here". NDTV.com. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  2. "Prakash Javadekar gets heavy industries portfolio as Arvind Sawant quits". India Today. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  3. "Sushma Swaraj not to contest 2019 Lok Sabha poll". The Hindu. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  4. "Citing ill-health, Arun Jaitley opts out of ministerial position". The Hindu. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  5. "Uma Bharti won't contest Lok Sabha polls, BJP makes her national vice-president". India Today. 23 March 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
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