Portfolios announced : Shah retains Home, DoNER to Scindia

NEW DELHI, Jun 10
A day after taking oath of office for a historic third consecutive term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assigned portfolios to his 71 Council of Ministers.
The new Union Cabinet held its first meeting at the PM's residence in the evening.
Cabinet Ministers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi - Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energ; Department of Space
Rajnath Singh - Ministry of Defence
Amit Shah - Ministry of Home Affairs; Ministry of Cooperation
Nitin Gadkari - Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Jyotiraditya Scindia-Ministry of Communications; Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
JP Nadda - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Shivraj Singh Chouhan - Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Ministry of Rural Development
Nirmala Sitharaman - Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Subrahmanyam Jaishan-kar - Ministry of External Affairs
Manohar Lal Khattar - Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Ministry of Power
JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy-Ministry of Heavy Industries; Ministry of Steel
Piyush Goyal-Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan - Ministry of Education
HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi-Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
JD(U) leader Lalan Singh-Ministry of Panchayati Raj; Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Sarbananda Sonowal-Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Virendra Kumar-Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
TDP leader Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu - Ministry of Civil Aviation
Prahlad Joshi-Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Jual Oram-Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Giriraj Singh - Ministry of Textiles
Ashwini Vaishnaw - Ministry of Railways; Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Jyotiraditya Scindia - Ministry of Communications; Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Bhupendra Yadav-Ministry of Environment and Forests
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Ministry of Tourism; Ministry of Culture
Annpurna Devi - Ministry of Women & Child Development
Kiren Rijiju - Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; Ministry of Minority Affairs
Hardeep Singh Puri - Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Mansukh Mandaviya - Ministry of Labour & Employment; Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
G Kishan Reddy - Ministry of Coal; Ministry of Mines
LJP(RV) Chirag Paswan - Ministry of Food Processing Industries
C R Patil - Ministry of Jal Shakti
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Rao Inderjit Singh - Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Ministry of Planning; Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
Jitendra Singh - Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; Minister of State in the Department of Space
Arjun Ram Meghwal - Ministry of Law and Justice; Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav - Ministry of Ayush; Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary - Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
Ministers of State
Jitin Prasada - MoS Ministry of Commerce and Industry; MoS Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Shripad Yesso Naik - MoS Ministry of Power; MoS Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Pankaj Chaudhary - MoS Ministry of Finance
Krishan Pal - MoS Ministry of Cooperation
RPI(A) leader Athawale Ramdas Bandu - MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ram Nath Thakur - MoS Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Nityanand Rai - MoS Ministry of Home Affairs
Anupriya Singh Patel - MoS Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; MoS Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
V Somanna - MoS Ministry of Jal Shakti; MoS Ministry of Railways
TDP MP Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani - MoS Ministry of Rural Development; MoS Ministry of Communications
S. P. Singh Baghel - MoS Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; MoS Ministry of Panchayati Raj
Shobha Karandlaje - MoS Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; MoS Ministry of Labour and Employment
Kirti Vardhan Singh - MoS Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; MoS Ministry of External Affairs
BL Verma - MoS Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Shantanu Thakur - MoS Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Suresh Gopi - MoS Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; MoS Ministry of Tourism
L. Murugan - MoS Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; MoS Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Ajay Tamta - MoS Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Bandi Sanjay Kumar - MoS Ministry of Home Affairs
Kamlesh Paswan - MoS Ministry of Rural Development
Bhagirath Choudhary - MoS Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Satish Chandra Dubey - MoS Ministry of Coal; MoS Ministry of Mines
Sanjay Seth - MoS Ministry of Defence
Ravneet Singh Bittu - MoS Ministry of Food Processing Industries; MoS Ministry of Railways
Durga Das Uikey - MoS Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Raksha Nikhil Khadse - MoS Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Sukanta Majumdar - MoS Ministry of Education; MoS Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.
Savitri Thakur - MoS Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Tokhan Sahu - MoS Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Raj Bhushan Choudhary - MoS Ministry of Jal Shakti
Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma - MoS Ministry of Heavy Industries; MoS Ministry of Steel
Harsh Malhotra - MoS Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; MoS Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Nimuben Bambhania - MoS Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Murlidhar Mohol - MoS Ministry of Cooperation; MoS Ministry of Civil Aviation
George Kurian - MoS Ministry of Minority Affairs; MoS Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Pabitra Margherita - MoS Ministry of External Affairs; MoS Ministry of Textiles
Mix of old hands and new faces
The PM Modi 3.0 council of ministers include representation from all corners of the country as well as social groups.
It has 27 ministers from Other Backward Classes, 10 from Scheduled Castes, 5 from Scheduled Tribes and 5 from minorities.
A record 18 senior ministers will be heading ministries.
Modi Cabinet 3.0 includes 43 ministers who have served 3 terms or higher in Parliament, with 39 having been ministers in central government before. The list includes multiple former chief ministers and 34 ministers who have served in state legislatures and 23 having worked as ministers in states.
There are also 33 first-timers in the ranks. Seven first-time ministers in the Modi government belong to the allies: TDP's K Rammohan Naidu and Chandrasekhar Pemmasani; JDU's Lalan Singh and Ram Nath Thakur, RLD's Jayant Chaudhary, LJP's Chirag Paswan and HD Kumaraswamy of the JD(S).
The new faces also include Suresh Gopi, the actor-turned-politician who scripted history by becoming the first BJP MP from Kerala.
BJP's NDA partners have got five cabinet ministerial berths this time, as against none in the outgoing government, given the party's dependence on allies for a majority in the Lok Sabha. While the outgoing council of ministers had two ministers of state from BJP's allies -- Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal (S) and Ramdas Athawale of the RPI(A) -- this time, there are two ministers of states with independent charge and four ministers of state (MoS).
Nine short of full strength
As per the Constitution of India, the total strength of the council of ministers cannot exceed 15% of the total number of Lok Sabha MPs.
The strength of the 18th Lok Sabha is 543 members and hence the council of ministers cannot be more than 81.
The 2024 Lok Sabha election results were announced by the Election Commission of India on June 4, the BJP won 240 seats and the Congress 99 seats. BJP had won 303 seats in the 2019 general elections and 282 seats in the 2014 general elections.
The NDA's tally is 293 seats -- well above the majority mark of 272 -- and opposition INDIA bloc 234.
First session
As per media reports citing sources, the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will begin from June 18 with President Droupadi Murmu expected to address a joint sitting of both Houses on June 21.
The MPs in the Lower House are expected to take oaths on June 18-19, following which the Speaker will be elected on June 20. TOI