Top 10 Ministers of Cabinet

Amit Shah

[Home Minister]

Amit Anil Chandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician and venture capitalist who wants to be the Minister of Interior Affairs. From 2014 to 2020, he was the BJP’s president.. (Bharatiya Janata Party). He was elected to the Lok Sabha in Gandhinagar (Gujrat) in the 2019 Indian national election. He was previously appointed in 2017 from Gujarat as a Rajya Sabha member of the national parliament.

He was appointed as the youngest massive Home Minister in history at the age of 54. He is the BJP’s campaign chairman and a close adviser to Narendra Modi. Shah was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Gujarat for a role that included Ahmedabad and Sarkhej (a by-election). He went on to hold the position until it was abolished in 2008 in the 1998, 2002, and 2007 elections, and was then appointed from neighboring Naranpura in 2012. Even during the 2014 General Elections, Amit Shah led the BJP in the world’s premier and most economically powerful state, Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its supporters won 73 of the 80 seats. As a result, Shah rose to national prominence and was elected as the BJP’s permanent president in July 2014.

Rajnath Singh

[Ministry of Defence]

Rajnath Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician who currently serves as the country’s Defense Minister. He was the former leader of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). As the Chief Minister (CM) of Uttar Pradesh and a Member of Parliament, he worked extensively in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cabinet. He was the Minister of Home Affairs during the first Modi government. He was also the President of the Bhartiya Janata Party twice, from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He is a senior BJP leader who started his career as an RSS Swayamsevak (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). He supports the Bhartiya Janata Party’s Hindu nationalist philosophy (BJP). Rajnath Singh was born in Bhabhaura, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, to Ram Badan Singh (father) and Gujarati Devi (mother). He was born into a farm family. He received his primary education at his town’s municipal school and went on to earn a master’s degree in physics with first-class honors from the University of Gorakhpur. From childhood, he was influenced by the philosophy of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He worked as a physics professor at K.B. Mirzapur PG College in Uttar Pradesh. Jaipal Singh is his only sibling. In 2000, he remained Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and was elected MLA of Haidergarh twice, in 2001 and 2002. He was succeeded as Chief Minister (CM) by Ram Prakash Gupta, who established the presidential law after Mayawati became Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister (CM).

Nirmala Sitharaman

• [Ministry of Finance]
• [Ministry of Corporate Affairs]

Nirmala Sitharaman (born August 18, 1959) is an Indian economist and politician who has served as India’s Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs since 2019. She has been a member of India’s upper house, the Rajya Sabha, since 2014. Sitharaman previously served as India’s Defence Minister, becoming the country’s second female defense minister as well as the country’s second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi and the first full-time female finance minister. She was the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, as well as the Minister of Commerce and Industry with independent charge. She previously worked as a national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sitharaman was ranked 37 on the Forbes 2021 list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. Nirmala Sitharaman was named the most powerful woman in India by Fortune.

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

[Ministry of External Affairs]

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat who has served as the Government of India’s Minister of External Affairs since 30 May 2019. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat. He previously held the position of Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977 and served in various capacities in India and abroad, including as High Commissioner to Singapore (2007–09) and Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2001–04), China (2009–2013), and the United States (2014–2015). Jaishankar was a key negotiator in the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement.

Jaishankar retired and joined Tata Sons as President, of Global Corporate Affairs.  He was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honor, in 2019.  On May 30, 2019, he was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Modi’s second ministry.  On May 31, 2019, he was appointed Minister of External Affairs. He is the first former Foreign Secretary to serve as Cabinet Minister in charge of the Ministry of External Affairs.

Narendra Singh Tomar

[Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare]

Narendra Singh Tomar (born 12 June 1957) is a politician from India who currently serves in the 17th Lok Sabha. He is the current Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister. During the First and Second Modi governments, he served as Minister of Rural Development, Minister of Panchayati Raj, Minister of Mines, and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. He is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s leader. He was also a member of the Fifteenth Lok Sabha from Morena from 2009 to 2014 and the Sixteenth Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019. He switched constituencies in 2019 and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from Morena.

Nitin Jairam Gadkari

[Ministry of Road Transport and Highways]

Nitin Jairam Gadkari: born May 27, 1957) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is currently the Minister of Road Transport and Highways in the Government of India.

He is also the longest-serving Minister for Road Transport and Highways, and has been in office for over 7 years.

From 2009 to 2013, Gadkari was the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).   He is also known for his work as the Public Works Department Minister of Maharashtra, where he oversaw the construction of a number of roads, highways, and flyovers throughout the state, including the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, India’s first six-lane concrete, and high-speed expressway. Gadkari is close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is headquartered in Nagpur, his home constituency. He is a lawyer by profession and currently represents the Nagpur constituency in the Lok Sabha. As part of the cabinet expansion on 7 July 2021, the portfolio for the Ministry of MSME that he held was reassigned to Narayan Rane, another BJP MP from Maharashtra.

Smriti Zubin Irani

[Ministry of Women and Child Development]

Smriti Zubin Irani (born March 23, 1976) is a politician from India and a former television actress and producer. She has been the Minister of Women and Child Development in India’s Union Cabinet since May 2019. She is a Member of Parliament from Amethi and a prominent leader within the Bharatiya Janata Party. She defeated Rahul Gandhi, the country’s main opposition leader and the president of the Indian National Congress, in the 2019 Indian general election to win the Amethi seat. For the previous four decades, members of the Gandhi family had represented the Amethi constituency. Irani was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat earlier in 2011Irani was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister in May 2019 at the age of 43, making her the Council of Ministers’ youngest minister in 2019. Irani speaks several Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, and Punjabi, thanks to her diverse family background. Her paternal family is Punjabi and Maharashtrian, while her maternal family is Bengali.

Kiren Rijiju

[Ministry of Law and Justice]

Kiren Rijiju is an Arunachal Pradesh-born Indian politician who is the Cabinet Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India.

Rijiju was born on November 19, 1971, in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, near Nafra, in the West Kameng district. Rinchin Kharu and Chirai Rijiju are his parents. His father was Arunachal Pradesh’s first pro-tem speaker, administering oaths to members of the First State Legislative Assembly. Rijiju received his B.A. from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. In addition, he received his graduate degree in law (L.L.B) in 1998 from the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. Kiren Rijiju was re-elected as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports, as well as Minister of State for the Ministry of Minority Affairs, in 2019.

When the cabinet was reshuffled in July 2021, he became Cabinet Minister of Law and Justice in the Second Modi Ministry.

Hardeep Singh Puri

• [Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas]
• [Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs]

Hardeep Singh Puri (born 15 February 1952) is an Indian politician and former Indian diplomat who currently serves in the Government of India as the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs.

He is an Indian Foreign Service officer from the 1974 batch who served as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013. Puri joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014, and in November 2020, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. Earlier in May 2019, he was appointed Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation, and Commerce and Industry. Puri previously served as the chairman of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee from January 2011 to February 2013 before joining the International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013.

Bhupender Yadav

• [Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change]
• [Ministry of Labour and Employment]

Bhupender Yadav (born 30 June 1969) is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Union Cabinet Minister for Labour and Employment, Environment, Forests, and Climate Change in the Government of India. He is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national general secretary. He has served as a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament since 2012, representing the state of Rajasthan. In April 2018, he was re-elected. Yadav was born on June 30, 1969, in Jamalpur, Pataudi, Gurgaon, Haryana. He graduated from Government College in Ajmer with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws.

He was appointed general secretary of the Akhil Bhartiya Adhivakta Parishad in 2000 and served in that capacity until 2009. He served as government counsel for the Liberhan Commission, which investigated the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, and the Justice Wadhwa Commission, which investigated the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines.

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