Modi 2.0: Portfolios for ministers announced, full list here

New Delhi: The Modi government on Friday announced the portfolios of the ministers in the cabinet. 

Putting all rumours to rest, the ministries were announced at around 1 PM.

The BJP won 303 seats out of 543 Lok Sabha seats, whereas the Congress managed to win on 52 seats. 

Here is the list 

Narendra Modi: Prime Minister and also in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and all important policy issues; and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister. 

Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence

Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs

Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Smriti Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Textiles

Ramvilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

DV Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting

Piyush Goyal: Railways ministry and Commerce and Industry ministry 

Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj

Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries

Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs

Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’: Minister of Human Resource Development

Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs

Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.

Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry

Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minister of Minority Affairs

Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines

Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Arvind Ganpat Sawant: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise

Giriraj Singh: Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisherie

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Jal Shakti

More information awaited