NEW DELHI: BJP Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S. Jaishankar were all kept in control of the four main ministries in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government : Home, Defence, Finance, and External Affairs.
The prime minister chairs the vital Cabinet Committee on Security, which is composed of the four ministries overseeing these responsibilities.
Former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been appointed to the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development, while J.P. Nadda, the President of the BJP, has returned to the Health Ministry, a position he held during the first term of the Modi administration before taking over the ruling BJP as working president in 2019 and then as president in 2020.
Nitin Gadkari, who is credited with expanding the nation’s highway system, is still in head of the Road Transport and Highways Ministry.
There are currently no Muslim ministers.
Manohar Lal Khattar, the former chief minister of Haryana, has been given the ministries of power and housing and urban affairs.
Not only has Ashwini Vaishnaw, a rising star in the administration, kept her positions overseeing the vital ministries of Railways, Electronics, and Information Technology, she also received the critical Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The Ministries of Education, Commerce, and Industry will remain under the leadership of Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal, respectively.
The Ministry of Natural Gas and Petroleum has been kept by Hardeep Singh Puri, whereas the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has been removed.
According to an official statement, President Droupadi Murmu followed Mr. Modi’s advice while assigning ministries to 72 members of the Union Council of Ministers, including the prime minister.
Arjun Ram Meghwal will stay in his position as Law Minister, and Sarbananda Sonowal will continue to lead the Shipping portfolio. Kiren Rijiju has been transferred from the Earth Sciences Ministry to the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry. The Environment Ministry is still under Bhupender Yadav’s control.
Among the five allies, Lalan Singh (Janata Dal-United) has the ministries of Panchayati Raj, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying; former Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has the ministries of Heavy Industries, and Steel; and Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM-Secular) has the ministries of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has been assigned to K. Rammohan Naidu of the TDP, while the Ministry of Food Processing Industries has been assigned to Chirag Paswan of the LJP (Ram Vilas).
Additionally, Amit Shah is still in charge of the Cooperation Ministry, while Sitharaman will still be in charge of Corporate Affairs.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has been kept by Virendra Kumar, while the new Minister of Tribal Affairs is Jual Oram. The cabinet consists of two women and one Muslim.
Agencies add: On Monday night, after Mr. Modi was sworn in for an unprecedented third term, his cabinet met for the first time and ministerial positions were assigned.During his ten years as prime minister, Mr. Modi has aggressively cultivated an image as a defender of the nation’s dominant Hindu faith, alarming minorities, notably the nation’s Muslim minority, which numbers over 200 million.
