Modi cabinet portfolios: Shah gets Home, Rajnath Defence, Sitharaman Finance

Amit Shah has been given the Home Ministry, Rajnath Singh Defence and Nirmala Sitharaman Finance, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique issued on Friday, a day after a 57-member council of ministers took the oath along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Former foreign secretary S. Jaishankar takes over External Affairs from Sushma Swaraj, who was not included in the cabinet, while Piyush Goyal will run Commerce in addition to Railways.

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi keeps Atomic Energy, Space, and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, along with all key policy matters and any portfolio not given to a minister.

Cabinet ministers

• Rajnath Singh: Defence
• Amit Shah: Home Affairs
• Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways; MSMEs
• D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Nirmala Sitharaman: Finance; Corporate Affairs
• Ram Vilas Paswan: Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs
• Narendra Singh Tomar: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Development; Panchayati Raj
• Ravi Shankar Prasad: Law and Justice; Communications; Electronics and IT
• Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
• Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
• S. Jaishankar: External Affairs
• Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’: Human Resource Development
• Arjun Munda: Tribal Affairs
• Smriti Irani: Women and Child Development; Textiles
• Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare; Science and Technology; Earth Sciences
• Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Information and Broadcasting
• Piyush Goyal: Railways; Commerce and Industry
• Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas; Steel
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs
• Pralhad Joshi: Parliamentary Affairs; Coal; Mines
• Mahendra Nath Pandey: Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
• Arvind Sawant: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
• Giriraj Singh: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Jal Shakti

Ministers of state with independent charge

• Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Labour and Employment
• Rao Inderjit Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation; Planning
• Shripad Naik: AYUSH, and junior minister in Defence
• Jitendra Singh: North Eastern Region, and junior minister in the PMO, Personnel, Atomic Energy and Space
• Kiren Rijiju: Youth Affairs and Sports, and junior minister in Minority Affairs
• Prahalad Singh Patel: Culture; Tourism
• Raj Kumar Singh: Power; New and Renewable Energy, and junior minister in Skill Development
• Hardeep Singh Puri: Housing and Urban Affairs; Civil Aviation, and junior minister in Commerce
• Mansukh Mandaviya: Shipping, and junior minister in Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of state

• Home Affairs: G. Kishan Reddy and Nityanand Rai
• Finance and Corporate Affairs: Anurag Thakur
• External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs: V. Muraleedharan
• Parliamentary Affairs and Heavy Industries: Arjun Ram Meghwal
• Road Transport: General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
• Health: Ashwini Kumar Choubey
• Agriculture: Parshottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary
• Social Justice: Krishan Pal and Ramdas Athawale; Rattan Lal Kataria also holds Jal Shakti
• Rural Development: Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
• Steel: Faggansingh Kulaste
• Consumer Affairs: Raosaheb Danve
• Environment: Babul Supriyo
• Animal Husbandry: Sanjeev Balyan; Pratap Chandra Sarangi, who also holds MSMEs
• HRD, Communications and IT: Sanjay Dhotre
• Railways: Suresh Angadi
• Tribal Affairs: Renuka Singh Saruta
• Commerce: Som Parkash
• Food Processing: Rameswar Teli
• Women and Child Development: Debasree Chaudhuri

See also: Lok Sabha members and BJP.

Originally published on 31 May 2019. Rewritten on 9 October 2026.

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