Bandaru gets Labour and Sujana Science and Technology

Bandaru Dattatreya, who sworn in as Minister of State, (Independent charge) was given Labour and Employment portfolio and Sujana Chowdary (MoS) gets Science and Technology and Earth Sciences portfolios.

As predicted Manohar Parrikar was given Defense portfolio that was under Finance Minister Arun Jaitley until now. But, Arun Jaitley was now given additional charge of Information and Broadcasting. Earlier, it was held by Prakash Jawadekar. He was shifted to Forests and Environment ministry. Shivasena MP, who quits party and joins BJP after taking oath yesterday, was given Railways taking it from Sadananda Gouda. He was given Law ministry.

Here is the list of cabinet ministers after reshuffle:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also hold Personal, Public Grievances, Pensions, Space and Nuclear

Rajnath Singh: Home

Arun Jaitley: Finance, Company Affairs, Information and Broadcasting

Manohar Parrikar: Defense

Suresh Prabhu: Railways

D Sadananda Gouda: Law

Nithin Gadkari: Shipping, Road Transport and National Highways

M Venkaiah Naidu: Housing, Urban Development and Rural Poverty Elimination

Ashok Gajapathi Raju: Civil Aviation

Ravishankar Prasad: Communications and IT

JP Nadda: Health and Family Welfare

Dr. Harsha Vardhan: Science, Technology and Earth Sciences

Ramvilas Paswan: Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs

Chowdary Birendar Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking water and Sanitation

Anantha Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Anantha Kumar: Fertilizers and Chemicals

Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Sushma Swaraj: Foreign and NRI Affaris

Uma Bharati: Water Resources, Rivers Development and River Ganga Cleansing

Menaka Gandhi: Women and Child Welfare

Smrithi Irani: Human Resources

Najma Heftulla: Minority Welfare

Harsimrath Kour Badal: Food Processing

Narendra Singh Thomar: Steel and Mines

Jyual Oram: Tribal Affairs

Tavarchand Gehlat: Social Welfare

Radha Mohan: Agriculture

Ministers with Independent charge:

Nirmala Sitaraman: Commerce

Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment

VK Singh: foreign Affairs and Statistics

Sripada Nayak Ayush: Health and Family Welfare

Piyush Goel: Coal and Energy

Prakash Javadekar: Forests and Environment

Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas

Sarvanand Sonval: Sports and Youth Affairs

Jitendar Singh: PMP, Staff Training, Science, Technology, Nuclear, Earth Sciences and Space

Rao Indarjith Singh: Planning and Defense

Rajiv Prathap Rudy: Parliamentary Affairs, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Mahesh Sharma: Tourism, Civili Aviation and Cultural Affairs