India got its second woman Defence Minister after Indira Gandhi on Sunday. Nirmala Sitaraman who was Minister of Commerce secured the Defence portfolio to become the first non-Prime Minister woman leader. Four ministers were elevated and nine new ministers of state inducted. They were administered the oath of secrecy in the Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Ram Nath Kovind. Here is the full list of new ministers –
- Nirmala Sitaraman – Defence
- Piyush Goyal – railway minister
- Suresh Prabhu –Commerce and Industry
- Uma Bharti- Drinking water and sanitation
- Dharmendra Pradhan – Skill development and Petroleum
- Nitin Gadkari – Water Resources, River Development Ganga Rejuvenation
- Narendra Singh Tomar – Mining
Ministers of State
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey – Health and Family Welfare
- Shiv Pratap Shukla – Finance
- Virendra Kumar – Women and Child Development, Minority affairs
- Anant Kumar Hegde – Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – agriculture
- Raj Kumar Singh – power, New and Renewable Energy
- Satya Pal Singh – HRD, Water Resource and Ganga Rejuvenation
- Alphons Kannanthanam – MoS (Independent Charge) Ministry of Tourism and MoS Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- Vijay Goel Parliamentary Affairs and Statistics and Program Implementation
- Hardeep Singh Puri – Housing and Urban Affairs
- Rajyavardhan Rathore Minister (Independent Charge) and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Full List of Cabinet Ministers
- Raj Nath Singh – Minister of Home Affairs
- Sushma Swaraj – Minister of External Affairs
- Nirmala Sitharaman – Minister of Defence
- Arun Jaitley – Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari – Minister of Road Transport and Highways; Minister of Shipping; and Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Gangs Rejuvenation
- Suresh Prabhu – Minister of Commerce and Industry
- V. Sadananda Gowda – Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation
- Uma Bharati – Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation
- Ramvilas Paswan – Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
- Maneka Sanjay Gandhi – Minister of Women and Child Development
- Ananthkumar – Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
- Ravi Shankar Prasad – Minister of Lawand Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
- Sagas Prakash Nadda – Minister of Health and Family Welfare
- Ashok Gajapathi Raja – Minister of Civil Aviation
- Anant Geete – Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Minister of Food Processing Industries
- Narendra Singh Tomar – Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Mines
- Chaudhary Birender – Minister of Steel
- Singh Jual Oram – Minister of Tribal Affairs
- Radha Mohan Singh – Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Smriti Zubin Irani – Minister of Textiles; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting
- Harsh Vardhan – Minister of Science and Technology; Minister of Earth Sciences; and Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Prakash Javadekar – Minister of Human Resource Development
- Dharmendra Pradhan – Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Piyush Goyal – Minister of Railways; and Minister of Coal
- Mukhtar Abbas – Naqvi Minister of Minority Affairs.
