Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, it is learnt that several of the top ministers have been given the following portfolios:
PM Modi will be in charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister;
Rajnath Singh will be the Minister of Home Affairs
Amit Shah will be the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Minister of Shipping, Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
DV Sadanand Gowda, Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Defence
S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Ramesh Pokhriyal, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development
Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Rural Development and Minister for Panchayati Raj
Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.