The NDA Goverment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath on 9 June. This comes after the PM led two BJP governments for the last two terms consecutively. 71 Ministers were additionally given the oath along with the Prime Minister, who was sworn in by President Draupadi Murmu in a well attended ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.

Portfolios have been allotted to the new Ministers on 10 June, after the first meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of the 18th Lok Sabha. There is no changes in the crucial Cabinet Committee on Security team, as the Ministers in charge of Home, Finance, External Affairs and Defence continue to hold their portfolios from their previous term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also take additional responsibilities of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space and all important policy issues in addition to all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

Portfolio of Ministers

CABINET MINISTERS
Name	Portfolio	Party
Amit Shah	Home	BJP
Nirmala Sitharaman	Finance	BJP
Nitin Gadkari	Road & Highways	BJP
S Jaishankar	External Affairs	BJP
Ashwini Vaishnaw	Railway	BJP
Annpurna Devi	Women and Child Walfare	BJP
Bhupendra Yadav	Envrironment	BJP
C R Patil	Jal Shakti	BJP
Chirag Paswan	Food	LJP
Dharmendra Pradhan	Education	BJP
G Kishan Reddy	Coal and Mining	BJP
Gajendra Shekhawat	Tourism	BJP
Giriraj Singh	Textiles	BJP
H D Kumaraswamy	Heavy Industry	JDS
Hardeep Singh Puri	Petroleum	BJP
Jeetan Ram Manjhi	MSME	HAM
JP Nadda	Health	BJP
Jual Oram	Tribal Affairs	BJP
Jyotiraditya Scindia	Telecommunication	BJP
Kiren Rijiju	Parliamentry Affairs	BJP
Manohar Lal Khattar	Power, Housing, Urban	BJP
Mansukh Mandavia	Sports and Labour	BJP
Piyush Goyal	Commerce	BJP
Prahlad Joshi	Consumer Welfare	BJP
Rajeev Ranjan Singh	Panchayati Raj	JDU
Rajnath Singh	Defense	BJP
Ram Mohan Naidu	Civil Aviation	TDP
Sarbananda Sonowal	Shipping	BJP
Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Agriculture	BJP
Virendra Kumar Khatik	Social Justice & Empowerment	BJP
MINISTER OF STATE
Name	Portfolio	Party
Ajay Tamta	Road & Highways	BJP
Anupriya Singh Patel	Health and Chemical Fertilizers	ADS
Athawale Ramdas Bandu	Social Justice	RPI(A)
Bandi Sanjay Kumar	Home	BJP
Bhagirath Chaudhary	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare	BJP
Bhupathi Srinivasa Varma	Steel and Heavy Industries	BJP
BL Verma	Consumer	BJP
P Chandrasekhar	Rural Development	TDP
Durga Das Uikey	Agriculture	BJP
George Kurian	Minority Affairs, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, Dairying	BJP
Harsh Malhotra	Road & Highways	BJP
Jitin Prasada	Commerce & Industry; Electronics and Info Tech	BJP
Kamlesh Paswan	Rural Development	BJP
Kirti Vardhan Singh	Environment, Forest Climate Change; External Affairs	BJP
Krishan Pal Gurjar	Co-Operative	BJP
L Murugan	Information and Broadcasting	BJP
Murlidhar Mohol	Civil Aviation and Co-operative	BJP
Nimu Bambhaniya	Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	BJP
Nityanand Rai	Home	BJP
Pabitra Margherita	Textiles; External Affairs	BJP
Pankaj Chaudhary	Finance	BJP
Raj Bhushan Chaudhary	Jal Shakti	BJP
Raksha Nikhil Khadse	Sports	BJP
Ram Nath Thakur	Agriculture	JD(U)
Ravneet Singh Bittu	Food, Railways	BJP
S P Singh Baghel	Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Panchayati Raj	BJP
Sanjay Seth	Defence	BJP
Satish Chandra Dubey	Coal and Mining	BJP
Savitri Thakur	Women and Child Welfare	BJP
Shantanu Thakur	Ports, Shipping and Waterways	BJP
Shobha Karandlaje	MSME	BJP
Shripad Yesso Naik	Power, Renewable Energy	BJP
Sukanta Majumdar	Education & Development of North Eastern Region	BJP
Suresh Gopi	Petroleum, Natural Gas; Tourism	BJP
Tokhan Sahu	Housing & Urban	BJP
V Somanna	Jal Shakti; Railways	BJP
MINISTER OF STATE - INDEPENDENT CHARGE
Name	Portfolio	Party
Arjun Ram Meghwal	Law	BJP
Jayant Chaudhary	Education	RLD
Jitendra Singh	Commerce, Electronics	BJP
Prataprao G Jadhav	Ayush	SHS
Rao Inderjit Singh	Planning	BJP

Salient Features of the List of Ministers of the NDA Government:

• No Muslim MP eelvated as Minister
• George Kurian represents the Christian equation
• 30 Cabinet Ministers
  • 25 BJP; 1 each from HAM, JDS, JDU, LJP & TDP
  • 4 Bihar; 4 Gujarat; 3 each Madhya Pradesh & Odisha; 2 each Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka; 1 each Kerala, Andhra, Arunachal, Assam, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab, Telangana and UP.
• 36 Ministers of State
  • 32 from BJP; 1 each from JDU, RPI, TDP and ADS
  • 7 UP; 4 Bihar; 3 Maharashtra; 2 each from Andhra, Karnataka & West Bengal; 1 each from Assam, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttarakhand.
• 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge
  • 3 BJP; 1 each from RLD, SHS
  • 1 each from Haryana, Jammu Kashmir, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
• No Ministers from North Eastern States or Himachal Pradesh