Modi Cabinet List: Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister for the third time, total 72 ministers in the government, see full list
Narendra Modi has been sworn in as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term. Along with him, 71 other MPs have been sworn in as ministers. Of these, 30 have been appointed as Cabinet Ministers, 5 with independent charge and 36 as Ministers of State. Modi, who ruled with absolute majority for the last two terms, is running a coalition government this time. They have been rewarded by inducting allies of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) into the cabinet. Besides, reliance has been placed on the experiences of senior leaders who were part of the previous government. Dressed in a white kurta, churidar pajama and a blue jacket, Modi, 73, took the oath in the name of God. Modi is the second Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to be sworn in for a third consecutive term. Amit Shah, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia and CR Patil were among the top 10 leaders who won the Lok Sabha elections with the highest margin of votes. Party president JP Nadda has returned to the cabinet after five years, while former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar are new faces in the Modi cabinet. Faces in Modi Cabinet – 1- Rajnath Singh, BJP, U.P. 2- Amit Shah, BJP, Gujarat 3- Nitin Gadkari, BJP, Maharashtra 4- JP Natta, BJP, Himachal Pradesh 5- Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP, Karnataka 6- S. Jaishankar, BJP, Gujarat 7- Shivraj Singh Chauhan, BJP, Madhya Pradesh 8- Piyush Goyal, BJP, Maharashtra 9- Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP, Odisha 10- HD Kumaraswamy, JDS, Karnataka 11- Manohar Lal Khattar, BJP, Haryana 12 – Jitan Ram Manjhi, HAM, Bihar 13- Lalan Singh, JTU, Bihar 14- Sarbananda Sonewal, BJP, Assam 15- Dr Virendra Kumar, BJP, Assam 16- Rammohan Naidu, TDP, Andhra Pradesh 17- Prahalad Joshi, BJP, Karnataka 18 – Jewel Oran, BJP, Odisha 19- Giriraj Singh, BJP, Bihar 20- Ashwini Vaishnav, BJP Odisha 21- Jyotiraditya Scindia, BJP, Madhya Pradesh 22- Bhupendra Yadav, BJP, Rajasthan 23- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, BJP, Rajasthan 24- Annapurna Devi, BJP, Jharkhand 25- Kiran Rijiju, BJP, Arunachal Pradesh 26- Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP, UP 27- Dr. Mansukh Mandavia, BJP, Gujarat 28- G Kishan Reddy, BJP, Telangana 29- Chirag Paswan, LJP RV, Bihar 30- CR Patil, BJP, Gujarat 31- Rao Inderjit Singh, BJP, Haryana 32- Jitendra Singh, BJP, Jammu 33- Arjun Ram Maghwal, BJP, Rajasthan 34- Prataprav Jadhav, Shiv Sena, Maharashtra 35- Jayant Chaudhary, RLD, UP 36- Jitin Prasad, BJP, UP 37- Sripad Yasho Naik, BJP, Goa 38- Pankaj Chaudhary, BJP, UP 39- Nithyanand Roy, BJP, Bihar 40- Anupriya Patel, BJP, Uttar Pradesh 41- V. Somanna, BJP, Karnataka 41- Dr. Chandrasekhar Bemmasani, TDP, Andhra Pradesh 43- SP Singh Bagel, BJP, Uttar Pradesh 44- Shoba Karandlaje, BJP, Karnataka 45- Kirtivardhan Singh, BJP, Uttar Pradesh 46- Banwari Lal Verma, BJP, Uttar Pradesh 47- Shantanu Thakur, BJP, West Bengal 48- Suresh Gopi, BJP, Kerala 49- L Murugan, BJP, Tamil Nadu 50- Ajay Tamtha, BJP, Uttarakhand 51- Pandi Sanjay Kumar, BJP, Telangana 52- Kamlesh Paswan, BJP , North State 53- Bhageerat Chaudhary, BJP, Rajasthan 54- Satish Chandra Dubey, BJP, Bihar 55- Sanjay Seth, BJP, Jharkhand 56- Ravneet Singh Bittu, BJP, Punjab 57- Durga Das (DD) Uike, BJP, Madhya Pradesh 58 – Defense Nikhil Gadse, BJP, Maharashtra 59- Sukanda Majumdar, BJP, West Bengal 60- Savitri Thakur, BJP, Madhya Pradesh 61- Dogan Sahu, BJP, Chhattisgarh 62- Rajbhushan Chaudhary, BJP Bihar 63- Bhupathi Raju Srinivas Verma, BJP , Andhra Pradesh 64- Harsh Malhotra, BJP, Delhi 65- Neemuben Bambania, BJP, Gujarat 66- Muralidhar Mohol, BJP, Maharashtra 67- George Gurion, BJP, Kerala 68- Babitra Margherita, BJP, Assam 69- Krishnapal Gurjar, BJP Haryana 70- Ramdas Atwale, RPI(A), Maharashtra 71- Ramnath Thakur, JDU, Bihar Modi-led party came to power in Gujarat in 2002, 2007 and 2012. After this, in 2014 and 2019, he was instrumental in bringing his party to victory and power at the centre. But this time the BJP's victory was different as it did not get a single majority. Fierce opposition to Modi for the first time Modi, who took office for the first time in 2014, now has to face strong opposition for the first time. Critics have also questioned the BJP's electoral defeats in several states. In particular, BJP's poor performance in Uttar Pradesh has been much debated. The Samajwadi-Congress alliance broke away from the BJP-led alliance in the state, which sent maximum 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha.
