Modi Cabinet 3.0: No change in top ministries, aviation goes to TDP; Full list of ministers and their portfolios
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New Delhi, June 11: PM Narendra Modi has allocated portfolios to his Cabinet colleagues who took oath on Sunday. There is no major change in top ministries as he has preferred continuity and given the Home Ministry to Amit Shah, Defence Ministry to Rajnath Singh, Finance to Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs to Jaishankar, and the Road and Highways Ministry to Nitin Gadkari.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been given the charge of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Aviation Ministry has been given to TDP's Rammohan Naidu. He will replace Jyotiraditya Scindia. JP Nadda is the new Health Minister.
The Modi 3.0 took shape on Sunday evening when Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister along with 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 36 Ministers of State (MoS). PM Modi's new Council of Ministers is 72-strong and comprises 11 ministers belonging to NDA partners - TDP, JDU, LJP, Shiv Sena, and others.
PM Modi has retained top ministers like Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, S Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman, and Hardeep Singh Puri. BJP National President JP Nadda, who was part of Modi 1.0, is also back in the Cabinet. Those joining Modi's council of ministers for the first time include Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal Khattar, and HD Kumaraswamy. Chouhan is a five-time MP from Vidisha, while Khattar has won from Karnal and Kumaraswamy from Mandya.
TDP's Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu and Chandrasekhar Pemmasani; JDU's Lalan Singh and Ram Nath Thakur, RLD's Jayant Chaudhary, LJP's Chirag Paswan and JDS's HD Kumaraswamy are seven first-time ministers from the BJP's allies.
Here is the full list-
