Modi Cabinet 2.0: Who Won and Who Lost, The Complete List
In a major rejig of the Narendra Modi government following the expansion on Tuesday, Smriti Irani was replaced as Human Resource Development Minister by Prakash Javadekar, while Ravi Shankar Prasad was divested of Communications but given Law. Venkaiah Naidu received additional charge of the I&B Ministry.
Irani has been made Textiles Minister, replacing incumbent Santosh Gangwar who will be now the Minister of State for Finance. Former bureaucrat Arjun Meghwal, who was inducted in Tuesday's expansion, has also been made Minister of State in the crucial ministry, headed by Arun Jaitley.
Jaitley, who also held additional charge of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, divests it to Naidu. While Naidu retains his existing Urban Development and Housing portfolio, he will be replaced as Parliamentary Affairs Minister by Ananth Kumar, who remains Chemical and Fertiliser Minister.
Jayant Sinha, who was junior minister in the finance ministry, now becomes Minister of State for Civil Aviation, while Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha will hold the Communications portfolio as Minister of State (Independent Charge).
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Following is the new list of Council of Ministers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi - Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs
Arun Jaitley - Finance & Corporate Affairs
M Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information & Broadcasting
Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways & Shipping
Manohar Parrikar - Defence
Suresh Prabhu - Railways
D V Sadananda Gowda - Statistics & Programme Implementation
Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Najma A Heptulla - Minority Affairs
Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women & Child Development
Ananth Kumar - Chemicals & Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs
Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Civil Aviation
Anant Geete - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water & Sanitation
Chaudhary Birender Singh - Steel
Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani - Textiles
Harsh Vardhan - Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development

Ministers of State
Rao Inderjit Singh - Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Bandaru Dattatreya - Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik - AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge), Mines (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) Prime Minister's Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Mahesh Sharma - Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
Manoj Sinha - Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
V K Singh - External Affairs
Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Finance
Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health & Family Welfare
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
S S Ahluwalia - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice & Empowerment
Ram Kripal Yadav - Rural Development
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - Home Affairs
G M Siddeshwara - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water & Sanitation
Rajen Gohain - Railways
Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj
M J Akbar - External Affairs
Upendra Kushwaha - Human Resources Development
Radhakrishnan P - Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
(With PTI and IANS inputs.)
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