New Delhi, 26 May, 2014

The President of India has appointed Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi as the Prime Minister of India. Further, as advised by the Prime Minister, the President has appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers:-

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Shri Raj Nath Singh

2. Smt. Sushma Swaraj

3. Shri Arun Jaitley

4. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

6. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda

7. Sushri Uma Bharati

8. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

9. Shri Gopinathrao Munde

10. Shri Ramvilas Paswan

11. Shri Kalraj Mishra

12. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

13. Shri Ananthkumar

14. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

15. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

16. Shri Anant Geete

17. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

18. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

19. Shri Jual Oram

20. Shri Radha Mohan Singh

21. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

22. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

23. Dr. Harsh Vardhan

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1. General V.K. Singh

2. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao

3. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

4. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

5. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

6. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

7. Shri Prakash Javadekar

8. Shri Piyush Goyal

9. Dr. Jitendra Singh

10. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara
He is BJP MP elected from the Davangere constituency of Karnataka for the third term successively since 2004.

2. Shri Manoj Sinha
BJP MP from Ghazipur district.

3. Shri Nihalchand
He is BJP MP from Ganganagar(SC) seat in Rajasthan.

4. Shri Upendra Kushwaha
He is OBC leader from Rashtriya Lok Samata Party in Bihar.

5. Shri Radhakrishnan P
He is BJP MP from southern most seat Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.

6. Shri Kiren Rijiju
He has been elected from north-east’s Arunachal Pradesh state on Arunchal Pradesh West seat.

7. Shri Krishan Pal
BJP’s Krishan Pal Gujjar won by a massive margin of 4,66,873 votes from Faridabad.

8. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
BJP MP from Muzaffarnagar. He is PhD Doctor.

9. Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava
A five-term tribal MP from central Gujarat’s general category Bharuch seat(Ahmed Patel fame). He has been minister too in Gujarat in the past.

10. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve
He is BJP MP from Jalna seat in Maharashtra.

11. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai
Chhattisgarh BJP president and BJP MP from Raigarh

12. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat
Tribal leader and BJP MP from Jharkhand

The President administered the oaths of office and secrecy to the above members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, today.

Note: Narendra Modi begins rule by keeping promise of “minimum government.” | 45-member council of ministers compared to UPA’s 77.