Who makes it to the new Modi 2.0 cabinet? Welcoming new faces, Modi Cabinet sticks to prominent leaders

30 May 2019 21:19:50

New Delhi, May 30: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes oath as the Prime Minister of India, the new government has finally put an end to all the speculations. Highlighting similar important faces, there were some ministers who will be missed but will have an esteem presence as a guiding source for the new comers. Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Nitin Gadkari are some of the ministers who made it to the Union Cabinet.

 

Notably, outgoing Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had requested to opt out of the incoming government owing to health concerns. Significantly, outgoing External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was reported to have received a call in the morning, was not a part of the new Modi government. Surprisingly, former foreign secretary S Jaishankar was confirmed to be a part of the incoming cabinet.

Cabinet Ministers:

Rajnath Singh: Rajnath Singh is a senior leader of the BJP and has served as the party president from 2005 to 2009 and 2013 to 2014.

Amit Shah: Amit Shah, who contested 2019 general election from Gandhinagar constituency in Gujarat, defeated C J Chavda of the Congress by a margin of over 5.5 lakh votes.

Nitin Gadkari: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, who contested from Nagpur constituency in Maharashtra, defeated Nana Patole of the Congress. He served as the Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in the first term of the Modi government.

DV Sadananda Gowda: BJP leader Sadananda Gowda served as the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation in the Government of India in the Narendra Modi cabinet from 2014 to 2019.

Nirmala Sitharaman: She is a member of the Rajya Sabha and she also served as the defence minister in the first term of the Modi government. She is India's second female defence minister.

Ram Vilas Paswan: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief served as the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

Narendra Singh Tomar: He served as the Minister of Rural Development, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Panchayati Raj and Mines in the Modi government.

Ravi Shankar Prasad: Ravi Shankar Prasad held the law and justice, and electronics and information technology portfolios in the first term of Narendra Modi government.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Kaur defeated Amrinder Singh Raja Warring of the Congress in Bhatinda constituency of Punjab by a margin of 21772 in the 2019 general elections.

Thawarchand Gehlot: Dr. Thawar Chand Gehlot served as the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment in the NDA Government.

S Jaishankar: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar served as the foreign secretary till 2018. He has also served as envoy to China in the past.

Smriti Irani: Smriti Zubin Irani has had quite a journey from being a reigning soap star to the political 'giant killer' who defeated Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in his bastion Amethi.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan: BJP leader Harsh Vardhan served as a minister at Ministry of Science and Technology (India), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Earth Sciences in the first term of the Modi government. He won the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat, defeating Jai Prakash Agarwal of the Congress by a margin of 2,28,145 votes.

Prakash Javadekar: Prakash Javadekar was given charge of the Human Resource Development Ministry in 2016 and was also the Minister State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and briefly held the portfolio of Information and Broadcasting.

Piyush Goyal: Piyush Goyal, who served as the minister of railways and the minister of coal in the Government of India in the recently concluded term of the Narendra Modi government. He was also the minister of state (independent charge) for power, coal, new and renewable energy (2014-2017) and mines (2016-17). He is a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Dharmendra Pradhan: BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan served as the Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship in the NDA Government from 2014 to 2019. He presently represents Madhya Pradesh in Rajya Sabha.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi became Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs on 26 May 2014 in Narendra Modi government. After the resignation of Najma Heptulla in 2016, he got independent charge of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

Pralhad Joshi: BJP leader Pralhad Joshi has been the member of the Lok Sabha since 2009. He represents Dharwad constituency in the Lower House.

Mahendra Nath Pandey: He served as the Uttar Pradesh BJP chief. He also served as the Minister of State (MoS) for HRD Ministery in the 2014 NDA government, before quitting the post to serve as the state unit chief in Uttar Pradesh.

Arvind Sawant: Sawant served as the MP of Mumbai South from 2014 to 2019. He defeated Mumbai Congress chief Milind Deora from Mumbai South constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Giriraj Singh: The veteran BJP leader defeated CPI(M) candidate Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai in Bihar.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: The BJP leader defeated Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot from Jodhpur Lok Sabha seat. He served as the former Minister of State for Agriculture.

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