37 Ministers dropped, 9 new faces in Modi 3.0 cabinet | get full list

BJP leader Narendra Modi took the oath as the Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive term on Sunday. This marks a historic achievement, as the list of ministers consist of 9 new faces starting from JP Nadda to Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Whereas, 37 ministers along with Smriti Irani ands Anurag Thakur were dropped. 

The new Cabinet includes 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 36 Ministers of State.

LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS:

• Rajnath Singh, who held the Union Defence Minister's post in the previous government, was sworn in on Sunday
• Amit Shah, who was the Union Home Minister in the Modi 2.0, was inducted into the new government\
• Nitin Gadkari, who held the post of Union Minister of Road and Transport, was part of the newly-formed NDA government
• JP Nadda, who is the BJP national chief, was the new entrant to the Narendra Modi-led Cabinet
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, has been given a Cabinet berth
• Nirmala Sitharaman, who held Finance portfolio previously, was part of new government
• Dr S Jaishankar, who was the External Affairs Minister, was part of Modi 3.0
• Manohar Lal Khattar, who quit as Haryana Chief Minister in March, was given Cabinet post
• HD Kumaraswamy, chief of JD(S), was sworn in as Union Minister in the PM Modi-led NDA government
• Piyush Goyal, who secured his first Lok Sabha term after defeating Congress candidate, was sworn in as Union Minister
• Dharmendra Pradhan, who was a Union minister in previous government, was sworn in as Union Minister again
• Jitan Ram Manjhi, founder of Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), took oath as a Union Cabinet Minister
• Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, leader from Nitish Kumar's JD(U), took oath as a Union Cabinet Minister
• Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP leader from Assam, was sworn-in as Union Minister
• Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, Telugu Desam Party leader, was included into Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government
• Dr. Virendra Kumar took oath as Cabinet Minister in the third term of PM Modi-led government
• Jual Oram was sworn-in as Union Minister in the Modi 3.0 Pralhad Joshi was sworn-in as Union Minister on Sunday
• Ashwini Vaishnaw, who held the Railways portfolio previously, took oath as Union Cabinet Minister
• Giriraj Singh was sworn-in as Union Minister in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government
• Jyotiraditya Scindia, who won his fifth term in Lok Sabha, was sworn in as Union Minister
• Bhupendra Yadav, who was Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, was included in Modi 3.0
• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who won his third term from Jodhpur Lok Sabha constituency, took oath as Union Cabinet Minister
• Annapurna Devi, a BJP leader, was sworn-in as Union Minister in the PM Modi-led NDA government
• Kiren Rijiju, who has been one of the key ministers in Narendra Modi cabinet since the BJP came into power in 2014
• Mansukh Mandaviya, who held the post of Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare in previous regime took oath on Sunday
• Hardeep Singh Puri, who has been a Rajya Sabha member since 2018, was sworn-in as Union Minister
• GK Reddy was sworn-in as Union Minister in the newly formed NDA government
• Chirag Paswan, whose party Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas (LJP-RV) allied with NDA, took oath in Modi 3.0
• CR Patil took oath as a Union Cabinet Minister in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government

LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE WITH INDIPENDENT INDIA: 

• Rao Inderjit Singh: Six-term MP, took oath as Union Minister of State (Independent Charge)
• Jitendra Singh: Udhampur MP, sworn in as MoS (Independent Charge)
• Arjun Ram Meghwal: Bikaner MP, took oath as MoS (Independent Charge)
• Prataprao Jadhav: Shiv Sena leader, part of Modi 3.0
• Jayant Chaudhary: RLD leader allied with NDA, given MoS (Independent Charge)

LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE:

• Jitin Prasada: Joined BJP in 2021, inducted as MoS
• Shripad Naik: Six-time North Goa MP, continued in Modi 3.0
• Pankaj Chaudhary: Held MoS (Finance) in Modi 2.0, took oath
• Krishan Pal Gurjar: Won from Faridabad, part of Modi 3.0
• Ramdas Athawale: Republican Party of India chief, sworn in as Union Minister
• Nityanand Rai: Won from Ujiyarpur, took oath as Union Minister
• Anupriya Patel: Apna Dal leader, sworn in as Union Minister
• V Somanna: Won from Tumkur, part of Modi 3.0
• Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani: TDP leader, took oath as Union Minister
• SP Singh Baghel: Fifth-term MP from Agra, part of Modi 3.0
• Shobha Karandlaje: Won from Bangalore North, sworn in as Union Minister
• Kirti Vardhan Singh: Three-time BJP MP, took oath as Union Minister
• BL Verma: Uttar Pradesh BJP vice president, part of Modi 3.0
• Shantanu Thakur: BJP MP from Bangaon, sworn in as Union Minister
• Kamlesh Paswan: Three-time MP from Bengal, sworn in as Union Minister
• Bandi Sanjay Kumar: Elected from Karimnagar, took oath as Union Minister
• Ajay Tamta: BJP leader from Uttarakhand, sworn in as Union Minister
• Dr. L Murugan: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha, sworn in as Union Minister
• Suresh Gopi: Actor-turned-politician, part of Modi government
• Ravneet Singh Bittu: Switched from Congress to BJP, took oath as Union Minister
• Sanjay Seth: Won from Ranchi, sworn in as Union Minister
• Raksha Khadse: Three-time Lok Sabha MP, part of Modi 3.0
• Bhagirath Choudhary: Won from Ajmer, took oath as MoS
• Satish Chandra Dubey: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha, sworn in as Union Minister
• Durgadas Uikey: BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh, part of Modi 3.0
• Sukanta Majumdar: West Bengal BJP chief, sworn in as Union Minister
• Savitri Thakur: BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh, part of Modi 3.0
• Tokhan Sahu: Won from Bilaspur, took oath as MoS
• Raj Bhushan Choudhary: Won from Muzaffarpur, sworn in as Union Minister
• Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma: Andhra Pradesh BJP leader, part of Modi 3.0
• Harsh Malhotra: Former Mayor of East Delhi, sworn in as Union Minister
• Nimuben Bambhaniam: Won from Bhavnagar, sworn in as Union Minister
• Murlidhar Mohol: Former Pune Mayor, part of Modi Cabinet
• George Kurian: BJP Kerala unit secretary, sworn in as Union Minister
• Pabitra Margherita: Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, sworn in as Union Minister

Narendra Modi returned as the Prime Minister as the NDA won 293 of the 543 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The BJP, however, was short of the majority mark in the Lok Sabha on its own, winning 240 seats. The magic number in the Lok Sabha is 272.