NEW DELHI: Amit Shah will be the new Home minister while Rajnath Singh has been given the portfolio of Defence minister and Nirmala Sitharaman will be the new Finance minister.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday announced that the new formation saying Former foreign secretary turned minister S Jaishankar has been given the External Affairs ministry and Smriti Irani, the new Women and Child Development Minister along with retaining the Textile Ministry.
According to a communiqu issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan Nirmala Sitharaman will be the new Finance and Corporate Affairs minister while Nitin Gadkari will continue to be the Minister for Road Transport and Highways.
Piyush Goyal has been given the charge of the ministries of Railways and Commerce while Ravi Shankar Prasad will continue to helm the Ministry of Law, Telecom as well as the IT Ministries.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain DoPT, Atomic Energy as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated.
Modi was sworn in as prime minister for a second term on Thursday.
