Second Modi ministry

Second Modi ministry
Second Modi ministry
23rd Ministry of the Republic of India
Date formed	30 May 2019
People and organisations
Head of state	Ram Nath Kovind
Head of government	Narendra Modi
No. of ministers	57
Member parties	National Democratic Alliance; Bharatiya Janata Party ; Shiv Sena; Lok Janshakti Party; Shiromani Akali Dal; Apna Dal; Republican Party of India (A);
Status in legislature	Majority 335 / 543 (62%)
History
Election	2019
Outgoing election	2014
Legislature term	5 years
Predecessor	First Modi ministry

The 23rd Ministry of the Republic of India is the Council of Ministers headed by Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2019 general election which was held in seven phases in 2019. The results of the election were announced on 23 May 2019 and this led to the formation of the 17th Lok Sabha. The swearing-in ceremony was arranged in the courtyards of Rashtrapati Bhavan at Raisina Hill. The heads of the states of BIMSTEC countries were invited as guests of honor for this ceremony.

List of Council members

Council portfolios are as follows:^[1]

Cabinet Ministers


Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office
Prime Minister Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister.	Narendra Modi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Defence	Rajnath Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of External Affairs	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Home Affairs	Amit Shah	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Finance Minister of Corporate Affairs	Nirmala Sitharaman	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Nitin Gadkari	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Railways Minister of Commerce and Industry	Piyush Goyal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Textiles Minister of Women and Child Development	Smriti Irani	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Tribal Affairs	Arjun Munda	30 Mai 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Food Processing Industries	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	SAD
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Ram Vilas Paswan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	LJP
Minister of Law and Justice Minister of Communications Minister of Electronics and Information Technology	Ravi Shankar Prasad	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Steel	Dharmendra Pradhan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister of Rural Developement Minister of Panchayati Raj	Narendra Singh Tomar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Education	Ramesh Pokhriyal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment	Thawar Chand Gehlot	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Science and Technology Minister of Earth Sciences	Harsh Vardhan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry of Information and Broadcasting	Prakash Javdekar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Minority Affairs	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	Mahendra Nath Pandey	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Coal Minister of Mines	Pralhad Joshi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Jal Shakti	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries	Giriraj Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Arvind Sawant	30 May 2019	11 November 2019^[2]	SHS
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Prakash Javadekar^[2]	12 November 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Reference: Official Government of India publication, 31 May 2019

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)


Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Labour and Employment	Santosh Kumar Gangwar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Planning	Rao Inderjit Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.	Shripad Yesso Naik	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Development of North Eastern Region 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	Jitendra Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Youth Affairs and Sports Minister of State of Minority Affairs	Kiren Rijiju	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Culture Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Tourism	Prahlad Singh Patel	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Power Minister of State (Independent Charge) of New and Renewable Energy Minister of State of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	Raj Kumar Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Housing and Urban Affairs Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Civil Aviation Minister of State of Commerce and Industry	Hardeep Singh Puri	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Shipping Minister of State of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Mansukh L. Mandaviya	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP

Ministers of State


Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office
Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel	Faggan Singh Kulaste	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Arjun Ram Meghwal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways	V. K. Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment	Krishan Pal Gurjar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Raosaheb Danve	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs	G. Kishan Reddy	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare	Parshottam Rupala	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment	Ramdas Athawale	30 May 2019	Incumbent	RPI(A)
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Babul Supriyo	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries	Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology	Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs	Anurag Thakur	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways	Suresh Angadi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs	Nityanand Rai	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment	Rattan Lal Kataria	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	V. Muraleedharan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs	Renuka Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry	Som Parkash	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries	Rameswar Teli	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries	Pratap Chandra Sarangi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare	Kailash Choudhary	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development	Debasree Chaudhuri	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP

Outgoing Ministers

These are the Ministers which were part of the First Modi ministry but were not included in the Second Modi ministry. These includes Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Suresh Prabhu, Uma Bharti, Maneka Gandhi, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Radha Mohan Singh, Satyapal Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Jayant Sinha, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Ram Kripal Yadav, Alphons Kannanthanam, Jual Oram, Vijay Goyal, Chaudhary Birender Singh, S. S. Ahluwalia, Subhash Bhamre, Anant Geete, Hansraj Ahir, Sudarshan Bhagat, Vijay Sampla, P. P. Chaudhary, Ajay Tamta Anupriya Patel and Anantkumar Hegde.

Sushma Swaraj announced in November 2018 to not contest the 2019 General election due to her health related issues.^[3] Arun Jaitley also gave his ill health as reason for excluding from ministry.^[4] Uma Bharti became National Vice-President of BJP and did not contest the elections.^[5]

Demographics of the Council of Ministers

NDA Cabinet by Party

Party	# Cabinet Ministers	# Ministers of State (I)	# Ministers of State	Total number of ministers
Bharatiya Janata Party	22	9	23	54
Shiromani Akali Dal	1	0	0	1
Lok Janshakti Party	1	0	0	1
Republican Party of India (A)	0	0	1	1
Total	24	9	24	57

NDA Cabinet by State

State	# Cabinet Ministers	# Ministers of State(I)	# Ministers of State	Total number of ministers
Arunachal Pradesh	—	1	—	1
Andhra Pradesh	—	—	—	—
Assam	—	—	1	1
Bihar	3	1	2	6
Chhattisgarh	—	—	1	1
Goa	—	1	—	1
Gujarat	2	1	1	4
Haryana	—	1	2	3
Himachal Pradesh	—	—	1	1
Jharkhand	2	—	—	2
Karnataka	3	—	1	4
Kerala	—	—	—	—
Madhya Pradesh	4	1	2	7
Maharashtra	2	—	3	5
Manipur	—	—	—	—
Meghalaya	—	—	—	—
Mizoram	—	—	—	—
Nagaland	—	—	—	—
Orissa	—	—	1	1
Punjab	1	—	1	2
Rajasthan	1	—	2	3
Sikkim	—	—	—	—
Tamil Nadu	—	—	—	—
Telangana	—	—	1	1
Tripura	—	—	—	—
Uttar Pradesh	4	2	3	9
Uttarakhand	1	—	—	1
West Bengal	—	—	2	2
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	—	—	—	—
Chandigarh	—	—	—	—
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	—	—	—	—
Delhi	1	—	—	1
Jammu and Kashmir	—	1	—	1
Ladakh	—	—	—	—
Lakshadweep	—	—	—	—
Puducherry	—	—	—	—
Total	24	9	24	57

References

^ "Who Gets What: Cabinet Portfolios Announced. Full List Here". NDTV.com. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Prakash Javadekar gets heavy industries portfolio as Arvind Sawant quits". India Today. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
^ "Sushma Swaraj not to contest 2019 Lok Sabha poll". The Hindu. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
^ "Citing ill-health, Arun Jaitley opts out of ministerial position". The Hindu. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
^ "Uma Bharti won't contest Lok Sabha polls, BJP makes her national vice-president". India Today. 23 March 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

External links

[1] "Who Gets What: Cabinet Portfolios Announced. Full List Here". NDTV.com. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

[SSQuit-2] "Prakash Javadekar gets heavy industries portfolio as Arvind Sawant quits". India Today. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.

[3] "Sushma Swaraj not to contest 2019 Lok Sabha poll". The Hindu. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

[4] "Citing ill-health, Arun Jaitley opts out of ministerial position". The Hindu. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

[5] "Uma Bharti won't contest Lok Sabha polls, BJP makes her national vice-president". India Today. 23 March 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

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