Narendra Modi 3.0 Cabinet: BJP retains over two dozen ministers from last government | Check list of old faces

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets BJP MPs Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Union government (Image: PTI)

Of the 71 ministers sworn in in the Modi 3.0 government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained at least 31 ministers from the last cabinet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in on Sunday for a rare third consecutive term. The inauguration ceremony of Prime Minister Modi and his ministers was administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. A mix of old and new faces, the Union Cabinet for the 18th Lok Sabha comprises 30 ministers, five independent ministers of state and 36 ministers of state.

Of the 71 ministers sworn in in the Modi 3.0 government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained at least 31 ministers from the last cabinet, including big names like Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar and Nitin Gadkari. The Modi 3.0 cabinet has expanded to 72 members, including 30 ministers and 5 ministers of state (independent charge). The majority of seats are allocated to the BJP, with the rest going to allied parties.

Up to 5 ministerial positions have been allocated to allies, while 2 ministers of state have been appointed in charge independently and 4 are serving as ministers of state. The distribution of ministerial posts favors larger coalition partners including the JDU, TDP, LJP, JDS and HAM, with key figures securing ministerial posts. The latest Cabinet list shows the structure of Modi 2.0, which also included 72 ministers. The ministerial number has seen a gradual increase, from 58 in 2019 to 78 in 2021.

S. No	Name	Previous portfolio	Rank in Modi 3.0 cabinet
1	Amit Shah	Minister of the Interior and Minister of Cooperation	Cabinet Minister
2	Rajnath Singh	Defense Minister	Cabinet Minister
3	S Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs	Cabinet Minister
4	Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance, Minister of General Affairs	Cabinet Minister
5	Nitin Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Roads	Cabinet Minister
6	Mansoukh Mandaviya	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Cabinet Minister
7	Ashwini Vaishnaw	Minister of Communications, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology and Minister of Railways	Cabinet Minister
8	Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Education and Minister of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship	Cabinet Minister
9	Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary AffairsMinister of CoalMinister of Mines	Cabinet Minister
ten	Piyush Goyal	Minister of Consumption, Food and Public Distribution	Cabinet Minister
11	Jyotiraditya Scindia	Minister of Steel and Minister of Civil Aviation	Cabinet Minister
12	Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs	Cabinet Minister
13	Kiren Rijiju	Minister of Agri-Food Industries and Minister of Earth Sciences	Cabinet Minister
14	Sarbananda Sonowal	Minister of AYUSH and Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways	Cabinet Minister
15	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti	Cabinet Minister
16	G Kishan Reddy	Minister of Development of the North-East Region and Minister of Culture and Tourism	Cabinet Minister
17	Bhupender Yadav	Minister of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change and Minister of Labor and Employment	Cabinet Minister
18	Jitendra Singh	Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Minister of State in the Department of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy Minister of State in the Department from space	Minister of State (independent)
19	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of State at the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of State at the Ministry of Culture	Minister of State (independent)
20	L Murugan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Livestock and Dairying and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting	Minister of State
21	SP Singh Baghel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice	Minister of State
22	Nityanand Rai	Minister of State at the Ministry of the Interior	Minister of State
23	Shripad Yesso Naik	Minister of State at the Ministry of Tourism and Minister of State at the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways	Minister of State
24	Giriraj Singh	Minister of Rural Development Minister of Panchayati Raj	Minister of State
25	Rao Inderjit Singh	Minister of State (Independent Responsible) for Statistics and Program Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Planning and Minister of State at the Ministry of General Affairs	Minister of State
26	Shobha Karandlaje	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agro-based Industries and Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare	Minister of State
27	BLVerma	Minister of State at the Ministry of Development of the North-East Region Minister of State at the Ministry of Cooperation	Minister of State
28	Krishan Pal Gurjar	Minister of State at the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Minister of State at the Ministry of Energy	Minister of State
29	Annpurna Devi	Minister of State at the Ministry of Education	Cabinet Minister
30	Shantanu Thakur	Minister of State at the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways	Minister of State
31	Virendra Kumar Khatik	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment	Cabinet Minister

Meanwhile, the BJP's partners in the NDA were given five ministerial berths in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term, compared to none in the outgoing government, given the party's dependence on its allies to secure leadership. majority in the Lok Sabha.

The BJP had an absolute majority in the previous two terms, the 16th and 17th Lok Sabhas, which was reflected in the council of ministers with only a few alliance partners being given space.

While the outgoing council of ministers this time had two state ministers from BJP allies Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal (S) and Ramdas Athawale of the RPI(A), there are two state ministers with independent charge and four Ministers of State (MoS), including Patel and Athawale.

Sanstuti Nath

With around five years of experience on the desk as well as in reporting, Sanstuti Nath is a senior sub-editor at News18.com. She writes about Indian politics…Learn more

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