New Appointments of Minister of Union Cabinet
Nine new Ministers of state were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers. Four Ministers of state were elevated to the cabinet rank. They are Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State For Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to them at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Here is the 9 New Ministers, who take oath–
- Former IFS officer Hardeep Puri
- Former Mumbai Police chief Satyapal Singh
- Former IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam
- Lok Sabha MP’s from Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar
- From Karnataka Anant Kumar Hegde
- From Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- From Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- From Bihar Raj Kumar Singh and
- Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla
Here is the Full list of Portfolios of changed Ministers
| Minister | Portfolio | Previously held portfolio |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | Cabinet Minister Skill Development and Petroleum Minister | MoS (independent charge) Oil Natural Gas and Petroleum Ministry |
| Piyush Goyal | Cabinet Minister Railway Ministry | MoS (independent charge) Power Ministry |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Cabinet Minister Defence Ministry | MoS (independent charge) Commerce and Industry Ministry |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Cabinet Minister Minority Affairs Ministry | MoS (independent charge) Minority Affirs |
| Suresh Prabhu | Cabinet Minister Commerce and Industry Ministry | Railway Ministry |
| Uma Bharti | Drinking Water and Sanitation | Water Resources, River Development Ganga Rejuvenation. |
| Ashwini Kumar Choubey | MoS Health & Family Welfare | – |
| Virendra Kumar | MoS Women and Child Development and Minority Affairs | – |
| Anantkumar Hegde | MoS Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. | – |
| Raj Kumar Singh | MoS (independent charge) Power | – |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | MoS (independent charge) Urban Development | – |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | MoS Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | – |
| Satya Pal Singh | MoS Human Resource Development and MoS Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. | – |
| Alphons Kannanthanam | MoS (independent charge) Tourism and MoS Ministry of Electronics & IT | – |
| Shiv Pratap Shukla | MoS Finance Ministry | – |
| Santosh Kumar Gangwar | MoS (independent charge) Labour and Employment | MoS Finance Ministry |
