In Cabinet reshuffle, Nirmala Sitharaman gets defence, Suresh Prabhu given commerce: List of new portfolios

The nine new members to be inducted in the Union council of ministers include four former senior bureaucrats and also BJP leaders from the states of Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh which go to polls in the near future.The new faces come from diverse backgrounds and have rich administrative experiences. Some of them have professional degrees or PhDs.The swearing-in ceremony was held at 10.30 am at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, a slight change from 10 am that was originally planned. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held discussions with BJP chief Amit Shah late in the evening to give apply touches to the exercise.The BJP-led government promoted four ministers, largely seen as performers, to the Cabinet, which also got a Muslim face with the induction of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.The elevation of Dharmendra Pradhan and Nirmala Sitharaman, Rajya Sabha MPs from Odisha and Karnataka, are also reflective of BJP's political calculation in these poll-bound states.Here is a table on the recent shuffle up in the Cabinet portfolios.

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	-