Modi 3.0 Cabinet: Naidu's TDP To Nitish's JDU — Which Portfolios Did NDA Allies Get?

During its first Cabinet meeting, the Modi 3.0 government allocated portfolios to the Council of Ministers members who took the oath administered by President Droupadi Murmu on June 9.

Without any major reshuffle or big surprise, the BJP-led NDA government has retained Amit Shah as the Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh as the Defence Minister, Nitin Gadkari as the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nirmala Sitharaman as the Minister of Finance and S. Jaishankar as the Minister of External Affairs.

Among the 71 ministers sworn alongside PM Modi, 60 are BJP leaders, two each from the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal United, and one each from the Janata Dal (Secular), Hindustani Awam Morcha, Shiv Sena (SHS), Apna Dal (Soneylal), Rashtriya Lok Dal, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP-Ramvilas Paswan), and Republican Party of India.

Out of the total, there were 30 cabinet ministers, five ministers of state with independent charge, and 36 ministers of state.

Of these, five Cabinet berths went to allies—Janata Dal (Secular), Hindustani Awami Morcha, Janata Dal United, Telegu Desham Party and Lok Janashakti Party (Ram Vilas).

Five Ministers of State (independent charge)—Rao Inderjit Singh, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav and Jayant Chaudhary—were also sworn in.

While 30 MPs were inducted as Union Ministers, 41 others took oaths as Ministers of State (MoS).

Let's check out what portfolios the NDA allies got.

Minister of Heavy Industries; and Minister of Steel: HD Kumaraswamy (JD(S))

Minister of Food Processing Industries: Chirag Paswan (LJP(RV))

Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying: Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh (JDU)

Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM)

Minister of Civil Aviation: Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP)

Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao (Shiv Sena).

Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education: Jayant Chaudhary (Rastriya Lok Dal).

Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare: Ram Nath Thakur (JDU).

Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications: Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani (TDP).

Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers: Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal).

Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment: Ramdas Athawale (RPI).