Cabinet portfolios announced; Amit Shah becomes Home Minister; View full list here

Cabinet portfolios for Modi 2.0 government are finally announced and some names in the list are definitely surprising. As speculated, Amit Shah gets charge of Home Ministry, while Rajnath Singh will now become the Defence Minister, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced on Friday. Nirmala Sitharaman is the new Finance Minister now that Arun Jaitley has opted out of the new Cabinet.

The former foreign secretary turned minister S Jaishankar has got the External Affairs ministry while Smriti Irani will be the new Women and Child Development Minister along with retaining the Textile Ministry, according to a communiqué issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Nitin Gadkari will continue to be the Minister for Road Transport and Highways. Piyush Goyal has been given the charge of the ministries of Railways and Commerce while Ravi Shankar Prasad will continue to helm the Ministry of Law, Telecom as well as the IT Ministries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain DoPT, Atomic Energy as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated.

Modi was sworn in on Thursday as prime minister for a second term, helming a 58-member team of ministers, including him and BJP president Amit Shah who makes his debut in the Central government. A new Ministry of Jal Shakti has been created and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat will be its minister.