The full list of Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and Ministers of State is out. Rajnath Singh gets Ministry of Defence, Amit Shah becomes Home Minister.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi takes charge as the Union Minister for Minority Affairs, in New Delhi.
First-timers and their portfolios
- BJP MP from Chandauli, Mahendra Nath Pandey has been given the post of Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the 17th Lok Sabha.
- Under the category of Ministers of State, new-inductee Anurag Thakur will be part of the Finance Ministry.
- Debasree Chaudhuri from West Bengal will be the Minister of State in Women and Child Development Ministry.
- Former Uttrakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal will be handling the HRD ministry.
- Popular tribal leader and former chief minister of Jharkhand, Arjun Munda, made it to the big league and will take care of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
- Shiv Sena’s Arvind Ganpat Sawant, the MP from Mumbai-South, will now be the in-charge of Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
- A lawmaker from Karnataka, Pralhad Joshi, will head the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs along with the charge of Coal and Mines.
Source: Moneycontrol
