Prime Minister

Narendra Modi holds Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; the Department of Atomic Energy; the Department of Space; all important policy issues; and every portfolio not assigned to another minister.

Cabinet Ministers (29)

1. Rajnath Singh: Defence
2. Amit Shah: Home Affairs; Cooperation
3. Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways
4. J. P. Nadda: Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers
5. Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare; Rural Development
6. Nirmala Sitharaman: Finance; Corporate Affairs
7. S. Jaishankar: External Affairs
8. Manohar Lal Khattar: Power; Housing and Urban Affairs
9. H. D. Kumaraswamy: Heavy Industries; Steel
10. Piyush Goyal: Commerce and Industry
11. Jitan Ram Manjhi: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
12. Lalan Singh: Panchayati Raj; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
13. Sarbananda Sonowal: Ports, Shipping and Waterways
14. Virendra Kumar: Social Justice and Empowerment
15. K. Ram Mohan Naidu: Civil Aviation
16. Pralhad Joshi: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; New and Renewable Energy; Education (additional charge)
17. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
18. Giriraj Singh: Textiles
19. Ashwini Vaishnaw: Railways; Information and Broadcasting; Electronics and Information Technology
20. Jyotiraditya Scindia: Communications; Development of North Eastern Region
21. Bhupender Yadav: Environment, Forest and Climate Change
22. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Culture; Tourism
23. Annpurna Devi: Women and Child Development
24. Kiren Rijiju: Parliamentary Affairs; Minority Affairs
25. Hardeep Singh Puri: Petroleum and Natural Gas
26. Mansukh Mandaviya: Labour and Employment; Youth Affairs and Sports
27. G. Kishan Reddy: Coal; Mines
28. Chirag Paswan: Food Processing Industries
29. C. R. Patil: Jal Shakti

Ministers of State (Independent Charge) (5)

1. Rao Inderjit Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation; Planning (also MoS, Culture)
2. Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology; Earth Sciences (also MoS in the PMO, Personnel, Atomic Energy and Space)
3. Arjun Ram Meghwal: Law and Justice (also MoS, Parliamentary Affairs)
4. Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav: AYUSH (also MoS, Health and Family Welfare)
5. Jayant Chaudhary: Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (also MoS, Education)

Ministers of State (35)

1. Jitin Prasada: Commerce and Industry; Electronics and IT
2. Shripad Yesso Naik: Power; New and Renewable Energy
3. Pankaj Chaudhary: Finance
4. Krishan Pal Gurjar: Cooperation
5. Murlidhar Mohol: Cooperation; Civil Aviation
6. Ramdas Athawale: Social Justice and Empowerment
7. B. L. Verma: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Social Justice and Empowerment
8. Ram Nath Thakur: Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
9. Bhagirath Choudhary: Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
10. Nityanand Rai: Home Affairs
11. Bandi Sanjay Kumar: Home Affairs
12. Anupriya Patel: Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers
13. V. Somanna: Jal Shakti; Railways
14. Raj Bhushan Choudhary: Jal Shakti
15. Ravneet Singh Bittu: Railways; Food Processing Industries
16. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani: Rural Development; Communications
17. Kamlesh Paswan: Rural Development
18. S. P. Singh Baghel: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Panchayati Raj
19. Shobha Karandlaje: MSME; Labour and Employment
20. Kirti Vardhan Singh: Environment, Forest and Climate Change; External Affairs
21. Pabitra Margherita: External Affairs; Textiles
22. Shantanu Thakur: Ports, Shipping and Waterways
23. Suresh Gopi: Petroleum and Natural Gas; Tourism
24. L. Murugan: Information and Broadcasting; Parliamentary Affairs
25. Ajay Tamta: Road Transport and Highways
26. Harsh Malhotra: Corporate Affairs; Road Transport and Highways
27. Satish Chandra Dubey: Coal; Mines
28. Sanjay Seth: Defence
29. Durgadas Uikey: Tribal Affairs
30. Raksha Khadse: Youth Affairs and Sports
31. Sukanta Majumdar: Education; Development of North Eastern Region
32. Savitri Thakur: Women and Child Development
33. Tokhan Sahu: Housing and Urban Affairs
34. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma: Heavy Industries; Steel
35. Nimuben Bambhaniya: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Government and leadership. The Third Modi ministry took office on 9 June 2024, after the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won 293 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 general election. President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office. Rahul Gandhi (Congress) is the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Structure. The Council of Ministers has three tiers. Cabinet Ministers head the major ministries and sit in the Cabinet. Ministers of State (Independent Charge) run smaller ministries on their own. Ministers of State assist a Cabinet Minister. The original council had 72 members: the PM, 30 Cabinet ministers, 5 MoS (Independent Charge) and 36 MoS. After the two exits below, it now has 70 members: the PM, 29 Cabinet ministers, 5 MoS (IC) and 35 MoS. The Constitution caps the council at 15% of the Lok Sabha’s strength, which is 81 ministers.

Coalition makeup. The BJP holds most posts. Other parties with ministers are JD(U), TDP, JD(S), HAM, LJP (Ram Vilas), Shiv Sena, RLD, RPI (Athawale) and Apna Dal (Soneylal). The four top ministries are Home (Amit Shah), Defence (Rajnath Singh), Finance (Nirmala Sitharaman) and External Affairs (S. Jaishankar). Each of them kept the same portfolio from the previous government.

Changes since the 2024 line-up:

• George Kurian, MoS for Fisheries and Minority Affairs, resigned on 23 June 2026, and the President accepted it the same day.
• Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Education Minister on 25 July 2026. The President accepted his resignation and gave Pralhad Joshi additional charge of Education. The exit followed nationwide protests over exam paper leaks. Education has had no full-time Cabinet minister since, so Joshi now holds three ministries.