prime minister Modi and his cabinet

Portfolio Name of the minister

Took office Left office Party

Prime Minister Minister Personnel, Public Grievances and PensionsDepartment of atomic energyDepartment of space

Mr. Narendra Modi

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Home minister Mr. Rajnath Singh

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Finance minister Mr. Arun Jaitley

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Defence minister Mr. Arun Jaitley

Mr. Manohar Parrikar

26/5/2014

9/11/2014

9/11/2014

Incumbent

B.J.P.

B.J.P.

Portfolio Name of the minister

Took office Left office Party

Minister of External AffairsMinister of Overseas Indian Affairs

Mrs. SushmaSwaraj 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of information and broadcasting

Mr. Arun Jaitley 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Railway minister Mr. Sadanand Gowda

Mr. Suresh Parbhu

26/5/2014

9/11/2014

9/11/2014

Incumbent

B.J.P.

B.J.P.

Minister of Urban DevelopmentMinister of Housing and Urban Poverty AlleviationMinister of Parliamentary Affairs

Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Road Transport and HighwaysMinister of Shipping

Mr. Nitin Gadkari 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Portfolio Name of the minister

Took office Left office Party

Minister of Law and Justice Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad

Mr. Sadanand Gowda

26/5/2014

9/11/2014

9/11/2014

Incumbent

B.J.P.

B.J.P.

Minister of Water Resources,River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

Mrs. Uma Bharti 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Minority resources Mrs. Najma Heptulla

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Rural DevelopmentMinister of Panchayat RajMinister of Drinking Water and Sanitation

Mr. Gopinath Munde

Mr. Nitin Gadkari

Mr. Birendar Singh

26/5/2014

4/6/2014

9/11/2014

3/6/2014

9/11/2014

Incumbent

B.J.P.

B.J.P.

B.J.P.

Portfolio Name of the minister

Took office Left office Party

Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Micro, Small and Large Enterprises

Mr. Kalraj Mishra 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Women and Child Development

Mrs. Menka Gandhi

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Mr. Anath Kumar 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Communicationsand Information Technology

Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Civil Aviation Mr. Ashok Gajapati Raju Puspati

26/5/2014 Incumbent T.D.P.

Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise

Mr. Anant Geete 26/5/2014 Incumbent Shiv Sena

Minister of Food ProcessingIndustries

Mrs. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

26/5/2014 Incumbent S.A.D.

Portfolio Name of the minister

Took office Left office Party

Minister of MinesMinister of Steel Minister of Labour and Employment

Mr. NarendraSingh Tomar

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Tribal Affairs Mr. Jual Oram 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Agriculture Mr. Radha Mohan Singh

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Mr. Thawar Chand Ghelot

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Human ResourceDevelopment

Mrs. Smriti Irani

26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Science and Technology

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

9/11/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

Minister of Health and Family Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Mr. J.P. Nadda

4/6/2014

9/11/2014

9/11/2014

Incumbent

B.J.P.

B.J.P.

Narendra Damodardas Modi was born 17 September 1950) is the 15th and current Prime Minister of India, in office since May 2014. Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), previously served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat state from 2001 to 2014. He is currently the Member of Parliament(MP) from Varanasi.

Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which resulted in an outright majority for the BJP in the Lok Sabha(the lower house of the Indian parliament) – the last time that any party had secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha was in 1984. Since then, Modi has also been credited for the BJP's electoral victories in the states of Haryana and Maharashtra in October 2014.

Modi is a Hindu Nationalist and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He is a controversial figure both within India as well as internationally as his administration has been criticized for failing to act to prevent the 2002 Gujarat riots. Modi has been praised for his economic policies, which are credited with creating an environment for a high rate of economic growth in Gujarat. However, his administration has also been criticized for failing to make a significant positive impact upon the human development of the state. In his early Modi use to work at the tea stall of his father.

Arun Jaitley (born 28 December 1952) is currently the Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has also previously held the portfolios as the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Law and Justice in the National Democratic Alliance government (1998–2004).In the 2014 general election, he unsuccessfully contested as Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for Amritsar, where he was defeated by Indian National Congress candidate, Captain Amarinder Singh.

Rajnath Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Union Minister of Home Affairs in the Narendra Modi government. He previously served as the Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government. He has also served as the President of BJP twice, 2005-2009 and 2013-2014. He began his career as a physics lecturer and used his long-term connections with the nationalist organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to become involved with the Janata Party.

Smriti Zubin Irani (née Malhotra, born 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician and former model, television actress and producer. She represents the Bharatiya Janata Party and is the incumbent Minister of Human Resource Development of Government of India.

Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar( born 13 December 1955) is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India, and Defence Minister in the Government of India. Before being inducted into the Council of Ministers of the Union Government on 9 November 2014, he was Chief Minister of Goa, first from 2000 to 2005 (Goa's first BJP chief minister), and later from March 2012 to November 2014. He was replaced by Laxmikant Parsekar as Goa's CM. Parrikar had represented the Panaji constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Goa when he was a player in the state politics.

Sushma Swaraj (born 14 February 1952) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of External Affairs of India. She is the second woman to be India's external affairs minister, first being Indira Gandhi. She has been elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25, she became Haryana's youngest cabinet minister and in 1998, also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short term. In Indian general election, 2014, she won from Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh. She became the External Affairs Minister in union cabinet on 26 May 2014. She retained her Vidisha parliamentary seat by over 400,000 votes in the 16th Lok Sabha in the general election held in May 2014.