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Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close aide and BJP president, has been given the charge of the home ministry while Rajnath Singh has been appointed as the minister of defence.
This comes a day after Modi’s new cabinet took oath as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a massive majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
One of the most prominent exclusions from the cabinet is of Arun Jaitley. In a letter addressed to Modi, Jaitley had said he does not want to be a minister in the new BJP government due to health reasons.
Here are the portfolios of the ministers in the new cabinet:
Ministry of Defence: Rajnath Singh
Ministry of External Affairs: S Jaishankar
Ministry of Finance: Nirmala Sitharaman
Ministry of Home Affairs: Amit Shah
Ministry of Human Resource Development: Ramesh Pokhriyal
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting: Prakash Javadekar
Ministry of Women and Child Development: Smriti Irani
