As Modi Cabinet 3.0 Retains PM's Core Team And Key Ministries, Here’s A Comparison With NDA 2.0

Cabinet Portfolio Allocation: In Modi's third term, 34 ministers were retained, including key figures like Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah. Annapurna Devi was promoted to Cabinet rank. Check a comparison below.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs the first meeting of his new Cabinet, attended by the newly-inducted ministers, at the prime minister's 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence, in New Delhi, Monday, June 10, 2024. ( Image Source :PTI )

 Cabinet Portfolio Allocation: Prime Minister Narendra Modi retained 34 ministers from his second council of ministers, including 19 with Cabinet berths. Among those who took the oath again were prominent figures such as Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, and S Jaishankar, deemed as PM Modi's core team. The senior leaders have retained their previous portfolios in a clear signal of continuity in the governance under NDA 3.0.

Annapurna Devi stands out as the only minister promoted from Minister of State to Cabinet rank. L Murugan, despite losing the Lok Sabha election, retained a berth in the council of ministers due to his membership in the Rajya Sabha.

Some ministers have been reinstated after a hiatus, including BJP chief J P Nadda, who served during Modi's first term. Similarly, Jual Oram and Ajay Tamta, who were previously ministers, have made a comeback after a gap.

Modi 2.0 vs NDA 3.0 Compared

Check the full list of ministers in NDA 2.0 vs NDA 3.0 below:

Cabinet Ministers

Names	Party	NDA 2.0 Portfolio	NDA 3.0 Portfolio
Rajnath Singh	BJP	Minister of Defence	Minister of Defence.
Amit Shah	BJP	Minister of Home Affairs	Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation.
Nitin Jairam Gadkari	BJP	Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.	Minister of Road Transport and Highways.
Jagat Prakash Nadda	BJP	N.A.	Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan	BJP	N.A.	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Minister of Rural Development.
Nirmala Sitharaman	BJP	Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs	Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	BJP	Minister of External Affairs	Minister of External Affairs.
Manohar Lal Khattar	BJP	N.A.	Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; and Minister of Power.
H. D. Kumaraswamy	JD(S)	N.A.	Minister of Heavy Industries; and Minister of Steel.
Piyush Goyal	BJP	Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry; and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Dharmendra Pradhan	BJP	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel.	Minister of Education.
Jitan Ram Manjhi	HAM	N.A.	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh	JD(U)	N.A.	Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
Sarbananda Sonowal	BJP	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; Cabinet Minister of AYUSH.	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
Virendra Kumar	BJP	N.A.	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu	TDP	N.A.	Minister of Civil Aviation.
Pralhad Joshi	BJP	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy.
Jual Oram	BJP	N.A.	Minister of Tribal Affairs.
Giriraj Singh	BJP	Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.	Minister of Textiles.
Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP	Minister of Railways	Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
Jyotiraditya M. Scindia	BJP	Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel	Minister of Communications; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region.
Bhupender Yadav	BJP	Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	BJP	Ministry of Jal Shakti	Minister of Culture; and Minister of Tourism.
Annpurna Devi	BJP	Minister of State for Education	Minister of Women and Child Development
Kiren Rijiju	BJP	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; and  Minister of Minority Affairs.
Hardeep Singh Puri	BJP	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Mansukh Mandaviya	BJP	Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers	Minister of Labour and Employment; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.
G. Kishan Reddy	BJP	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs	Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.
Chirag Paswan	LJP (Ram Vilas)	N.A.	Minister of Food Processing Industries.
C R Paatil	BJP	N.A.	Minister of Jal Shakti.
Anurag Singh Thakur	BJP	Minister of Sports, Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting	Dropped
D.V. Sadananda Gowda	BJP	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Dropped
Ramvilas Paswan	LJP	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution till death on 8 October, 2020	N.A.
Narendra Singh Tomar	BJP	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj	Dropped
Ravi Shankar Prasad	BJP	Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.	Dropped
Harsimrat Kaur Badal	SAD	Minister of Food Processing Industries.	Not In NDA
Thawar Chand Gehlot	BJP	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.	Karnataka Governor since 2021
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’	BJP	Minister of Education	Dropped
Arjun Munda	BJP	Minister of Tribal Affairs and Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare	Dropped
Smriti Zubin Irani	BJP	Minister of Women and Child Development, Minister of Minority Affairs since 2022	Dropped
Harsh Vardhan	BJP	Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.	Retired
Prakash Javadekar	BJP	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting Till 2021	Dropped
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	BJP	Minister of Minority Affairs till July 2022	N.A.
Mahendra Nath Pandey	BJP	Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.	Dropped
Arvind Ganpat Sawant	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise.	Not In NDA