Nitin Gadkari takes charge of Road Transport and Highways minister

 In Modi 2.0 Cabinet, Amit Shah has been appointed as the Home Minister. Rajnath Singh will now take over the Defence Ministry and Nitin Gadkari will be Minister of Road Transport and Highways. Smriti Irani will take charge as Minister for Women and Child Development. S Jaishankar to be new External Affairs minister. 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