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

New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) 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.
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