Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah was appointed the minister of home affairs in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Cabinet on Friday. Rajnath Singh, who was the home minister in the previous government, will now be in charge of the defence ministry while Nirmala Sitharaman will be the minister of finance and corporate affairs. Former Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is the new minister of external affairs.

President Ram Nath Kovind allocated portfolios to the 57 ministers who took the oath of office at the Rashtrapati Bhavan the day before.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, all important policy matters and other portfolios not allocated to any minister.

Nitin Gadkari retained the road transport and highways ministry and has also been appointed the minister of micro, small and medium enterprises. Meanwhile, Smriti Irani has been appointed the minister of child and women development and minister of textiles.

The Council of Ministers has 24 Cabinet ministers, nine ministers of state with independent charge and 24 ministers of state. The first meeting of the new Cabinet is expected to take place later on Friday, according to reports.

Uttar Pradesh has the highest representation in the second Narendra Modi-led government with 10 ministers, followed by seven from Maharashtra and six from Bihar.

The Bharatiya Janata Party secured 303 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. The National Democratic Alliance has 353 seats in the Lower House.

Cabinet ministers

Narendra Modi: Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; all important policy matters; and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs
Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
DV Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemical and Fertilisers
Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs
Ramvilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: MInister of Social Justice and Empowerement
Dr. S Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank: Minister of Human Resource Development
Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
Smriti Zubin Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development; Minister of Textiles
Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare;’ Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways; and Ministter of Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: MInister of Minority Affairs
Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of MInes
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Arvind Sawant: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Giriraj Singh: Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Jal Shakti

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Rao Inderjit Singh: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Ministry of Planning.
Shripad Yesso Naik: Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and MoS in the Ministry of Defence.
Dr. Jitendra Singh: Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; MoS in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, and Department of Space.
Kiren Rijiju: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and MoS in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
Prahalad Singh Patel: Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Tourism.
Raj Kumar Singh: Ministry of Power, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and MoS in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Hardeep Singh Puri: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Civil Aviation; and MoS in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Mansukh L Mandaviya: Ministry of Shipping and MoS in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.

Ministers of State

Faggan Singh Kulaste: Ministry of Steel.
Ashwini Kumar Choubey: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Arjun Ram Meghwal: Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
VK Singh: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
Krishan Pal: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
G Kishan Reddy: Ministry of Home Affairs.
Parshottam Rupala: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Ramdas Athawale: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Ministry of Rural Development.
Babul Supriyo: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao: Ministry of Human Resource Development; Ministry of Communications; and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Anurag Singh Thakur: Ministry of Finance; and MoS in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa: Ministry of Railways.
Nityanand Rai: Ministry of Home Affairs.
Rattan Lal Kataria: Ministry of Jal Shakti and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
V Muraleedharan: Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
Renuka Singh Saruta: Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
Som Parkash: Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Rameswar Teli: Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Pratap Chandra Sarangi: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
Kailash Choudhary: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Debasree Chaudhuri: Ministry of Women and Child Development.