Modi cabinet: Shah likely to get Finance, Rajnath MHA, Jaishankar MEA

PM Modi will be in charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister;

BJP chief Amit Shah.

New Delhi: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, it is learnt that several of the top ministers have been given the following portfolios: *PM Modi will be in charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister; *Rajnath Singh will be the Minister of Home Affairs; *Amit Shah will be the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs; *Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Minister of Shipping, Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation; *DV Sadanand Gowda, Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation; *Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Defence; *S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs; *Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology; *Ramesh Pokhriyal, Minister of Health and Family Welfare; *Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development; *Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Rural Development and Minister for Panchayati Raj; *Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.