Modi 3.0: TDP's Rammohan Naidu gets civil aviation ministry; ML Khattar is new power minister

Key cabinet portfolios will remain unchanged under the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nirmala Sitharaman has retained the ministry of finance and corporate affairs while newly elected Lok Sabha MP Piyush Goyal retained the ministry of commerce and industry.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader (BJP) president Jagat Prakash Nadda has been allocated the ministry of health and family welfare and ministry of chemicals and fertilisers.

Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh also retained their previous roles as home minister and defence minister respectively.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been appointed as minister of agriculture and farmers welfare and minister of rural development.

Nitin Gadkari will remain the minister of road transport and highways while S Jaishankar will continue as minister of external affairs.

Former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been awarded two key portfolios of housing and urban affairs and ministry of power.

Janata Dal (Secular) leader H. D. Kumaraswamy has also been given two key portfolios of steel ministry and ministry of heavy industries. Former minister of heavy industries Mahendra Nath Pandey lost his seat to Samajwadi Party in UP.

Dharmedra Pradhan has been allocated the ministry of education. Jitan Ram Manjhi will be the minister of micro, small and medium enterprises.

BJP leader Sarbananda Sonowal retained the ministry of ports, shipping and waterways. Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu will replace Jyotiraditya M. Scindia as the minister of civil aviation.

Scindia will now the minister of communitations and minister of development of north eastern region.

Pralhad Joshi has bagged the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution and ministry of new and renewable energy.

Ashwini Vaishnaw will continue as minister of railways and minister of electronics and information technology (MeitY). He has also been given addition portfolio of ministry of information and broadcasting.

BJP MP from Jodhpur Gajendra Singh Shekhawat will be the minister of culture and tourism.

Hardeep Singh Puri has also retained the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.

Annpurna Devi replaces Smriti Irani, who lost to Congress’ Kishori Lal Sharma in Amethi, as the minister of women and child development.

G Kishan Reddy is the ministry of coal and mines.

Chirag Paswan has been appointed as minister of food processing industries.

Former health minister Mansukh Mandaviya has been appointed as minister of labour and employment and minister of youth affairs and sports.

Long-time Lok Sabha MP from Gurugram Rao Inderjit Singh will be minister of state (independent charge) of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation and minister of state (independent charge) of the ministry of planning.

BJP MP from J&K's Udhampur Dr. Jitendra Singh will be minister of state (independent charge) of the ministry of science and technology and minister of state (independent charge) of the ministry of earth sciences.

PM Modi has retained portfolios of ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy and department of space.