NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already made it clear that he would take in a slim cabinet and also will have an age cut-off for his cabinet, inducting ministers who were under 75. He was on Monday sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India along with his key colleagues in the Cabinet.
Some of his key ministers are senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley who has been given the charge of finance ministry and additional charge of the defense ministry in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Apart from Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj has been given charge of ministry of external affairs and Rajnath Singh was given charge of the home ministry.
The list of ministers includes:
Sushma Swaraj Ministry of external affairs
Ananth Kumar Parliamentary affairs and additional charge of chemicals and fertilizers
Nitin Gadkari Surface transport ministry and shipping ministry
Sadanand Gowda Railways ministry
Venkaiah Naidu Urban development ministry and parliamentary affairs
Ravi Shankar Prasad Telecom ministry, law and justice ministry
Maneka Gandhi Women and child development ministry
Najma Heptulla Ministry of minorities
Smriti Irani – Human resource development ministry
Radha Mohan Singh Agriculture ministry
Nirmala Sitharaman Ministry of state for commerce
Piyush Goel – Minister of state power (independent)
Prakash Javadekar Minister of state information & broadcasting
Ram Vilas Paswan Food and civil supplies ministry
Rajnath Singh Minister for home affairs
Arun Jaitley Finance ministry and additional charge of the defence ministry
Uma Bharati Union minister for water resources and Ganga
Jual Oram Cabinet minister for tribal affairs.
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