On 9th June 2024, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 71 others were administered the Oaths of Office and Secrecy as members of the Council of Ministers. The oaths were administered by the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the presence of thousands of guests.
Of the 72, only 7 women found spots in the Union Council of Ministers in the new Indian Government. The previous NDA government featured 10 women ministers and among them two were in the cabinet – former union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and actor turned politician who had defeated Rahul Gandhi in Amethi seat, Smriti Irani.
In this new government, while Sitharaman has been retained, Irani has been removed.
There are 47,15,41,888 female voters in India. Women make up 48.9% of India’s total electorates.
Former union minister of state, Pratima Bhoumik, who is from Tripura, was also removed. Former minister of state Meenakshi Lekhi has also been removed.
The other women ministers are Savitri Thakur, Nimuben Bambhaniya, Raksha Khadse, Shobha Karandlaje and Anupriya Patel.
The portfolios are expected to be announced shortly.
Following is the complete list of the Council of Ministers in the Narendra Modi Government:
CABINET MINISTERS
- Raj Nath Singh
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Jagat Prakash Nadda
5.Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Nirmala Sitharaman
- Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- Manohar Lal Khattar
- H. D. Kumaraswamy
- Piyush Goyal
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Jitan Ram Manjhi
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh
- Sarbananda Sonowal
- Dr. Virendra Kumar
- Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu
- Pralhad Joshi
- Jual Oram
- Giriraj Singh
- Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
- Bhupender Yadav
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Annpurna Devi
- Kiren Rijiju
- Hardeep Singh Puri
- Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
- G. Kishan Reddy
- Chirag Paswan
- C R Patil
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)
- Rao Inderjit Singh
- Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao
- Jayant Chaudhary
MINISTERS OF STATE
- Jitin Prasada
- Shripad Yesso Naik
- Pankaj Chaudhary
- Krishan Pal
- Ramdas Athawale
- Ram Nath Thakur
- Nityanand Rai
- Anupriya Patel
- V. Somanna
- Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
- Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel
- Sobha Karandlaje
- Kirtivardhan Singh
- B. L. Verma
- Shantanu Thakur
- Suresh Gopi
- Dr. L. Murugan
- Ajay Tamta
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar
- Kamlesh Paswan
- Bhagirath Choudhary
- Satish Chandra Dubey
- Sanjay Seth
- Ravneet Singh
- Durgadas Uikey
- Raksha Nikhil Khadse
- Sukanta Majumdar
- Savitri Thakur
- Tokhan Sahu
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary
- Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
- Harsh Malhotra
- Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
- Murlidhar Mohol
- George Kurian
- Pabitra Margherita
