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#NDA 3.0 : Portfolios Of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet Announced – No Change In Top Four – Amit Shah- Home, Rajnath Singh- Defence, S Jaishankar- External Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman – Finance ; See Full List

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s top four ministers — Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar — have retained their respective home, defence, finance and external affairs portfolios, according to an official statement.

The four are also part of the CCS ( Cabinet Committee on Security) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Among the new entrants to the Union cabinet, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been given the agriculture and rural development portfolios, Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda the health portfolio and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar the power portfolio. Hardeep Singh Puri Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

Nitin Gadkari will continue as road transport minister, while Dharmendra Pradhan will retain his education portfolio.

Kiren Rijiju has been moved from the earth sciences ministry to the parliamentary affairs ministry, while Arjun Ram Meghwal will continue as law minister.

Sarbananda Sonowal has retained the shipping portfolio, according to the statement.

Chirag Paswan to be Minister of Food Processing Industries.

H.D. Kumaraswamy to be Minister of Heavy Industries and Minister of Steel.

Murlidhar Mohol is now MoS Cooperation and Civil Aviation

Suresh Gopi is the new MoS Petroleum and Natural Gas and Tourism

Ram Nath Thakur becomes MoS Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Ashwini Vaishnaw to be Minister of Railways, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.

G Kishan Reddy gets Ministry of Coal and Mines . Jyotiraditya Scindia, Telecom and North East

Jayant Chaudhary becomes Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education.

Dr Mansukh Mandaviya gets the Ministry of Labour and Employment and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

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