Kapil Sibal gets HRD, Raja gets Communications & IT, Moily is Law Minister

24/7 News Network: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh announced the portfolios for all his 78 Ministers. Kapil Sibal will be the new Human Resources & Development Minister, while Veerappa Moily will be the new Law Minister. In a surprising development, controversial Minister A Raja retained the Communications & IT portfolio, even though the PM was not so keen in giving him that portfolio after the 3G Spectrum Row.

Kamal Nath was given the Road Transport & Highways Ministry, while Murli Deora will continue to be the Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas. S Jaipal Reddy will be the Urban Development Minister. MK Azhagiri got the Chemicals and Fertilisers portfolio, while Textiles went to Dayanidhi Maran.

Ambika Soni will be the new Information & Broadcasting Minister, while Pawan Kumar Bansal will hold the Parliamentary Affairs portfolio. Ghulam Nabi Azad got the Health & Family Welfare portfolio. Anand Sharma was handed over the key portfolio - Commerce & Industry.

List of Cabinet Ministers with Portfolios:

1. Pranab Mukherjee - Finance

2. SM Krishna - External Affairs

3. P Chidambaram - Home

4. AK Antony - Defence

5. Sharad Pawar - Agriculture, Food & Civil Supplies, Public Distribution & Consumer Affairs

6. Mamata Banerjee - Railways

7. Kapil Sibal - HRD (Human Resources & Development)

8. Veerappa Moily - Law & Justice

9. S Jaipal Reddy - Urban Development

10. Murli Deora - Petroleum & Natural Gas

11. A Raja - Communications & IT

12. Kamal Nath - Road Transport & Highways

13. MK Azhagiri - Chemicals and Fertilisers

14. Dayanidhi Maran - Textiles

15. Meira Kumar - Water Resources

16. Sushil Kumar Shinde - Power

17. Ghulam Nabi Azad - Health & Family Welfare

18. Virbhadra Singh - Steel

19. Ambika Soni - Information & Broadcasting

20. Mallikarjuna Kharge - Labour & Employment

21. Anand Sharma - Commerce & Industry

22. BK Handique - Mines & North East Region Development

23. CP Joshi - Rural Development & Panchayati Raj

24. MS Gill - Sports & Youth Affairs

25. GK Vasan - Shipping

26. Vilasrao Deshmukh - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

27. Pawan Kumar Bansal - Parliamentary Affairs

28. Mukul Wasnik - Social Justice & Empowerment

29. Kantilal Bhuria - Tribal Affairs

30. Vayalar Ravi - Overseas Indian Affairs

31. Kumari Selja - Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Tourism

32. Dr. Farooq Abdullah - New and Renewable Energy

33. Subodh Kant Sahay - Food Processing


List of MoS (Independent Charge):

1. Praful Patel - Civil Aviation

2. Prithviraj Chavan - Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and MoS in Parliamentary Affairs

3. Sriprakash Jaiswal - Coal, Statistics and Programme Implementation

4. Krishna Tirath - Women and Child Development

5. Jairam Ramesh - Environment and Forests

6. Salman Khursheed - Minority Affairs, Corporate Affairs

7. Dinshaw Patel - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises


List of Ministers of State (MoS):

1. E. Ahamed - Railways

2. Shashi Tharoor - External Affairs

3. Jyotiraditya Scindia - Commerce & Industry

4. Srikant Jena - Chemical & Fertlisers

5. D. Purandeswari - HRD

6. Ajay Maken - Home

7. Namo Narain Meena - Finance

8. Agatha Sangma - Rural Development

9. Sisir Adhikari - Rural Development

10. Pradeep Jain - Rural Development

11. Bharat Singh Solanki - Power

12. Sultan Ahmed - Tourism

13. S.S. Palanimanickam - Finance

14. M.M. Pallam Raju - Defence

15. KV Thomas - Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

16. Dinesh Trivedi - Health & Family Welfare

17. Mohan Jatua - Information and Broadcasting

18. Mukul Roy - Shipping

19. D Napoleon - Social Justice & Empowerment

20. Jitin Prasada - Petroleum

21. Sachin Pilot - Communications & IT

22. Arun Yadav - Sports & Youth Affairs

23. Preneet Kaur - External Affairs

24. Mullappally Ramachandran - Home

25. Saugata Ray - Urban Development

26. A Sai Prathap - Steel

27. Gurudas Kamat - Communications & IT

28. Harish Rawat - Labour & Employment

29. Mahadev Khandela - Road Transport & Highways

30. S. Jagathrakshakan - Information and Broadcasting

31. S. Gandhiselvan - Health & Family Welfare

32. Tusharbhai Chaudhary - Tribal Affairs

33. Prateek Bapu Patil - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

34. RPN Singh - Road Transport & Highways

35. Vincent Pala - Water Resources

36. V. Narayanasamy - Parliamentary Affairs, Planning

37. KH Muniyappa - Railways

38. Panabaka Lakshmi - Textiles