The First Narendra Modi ministry is the Council of Ministers headed by Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2014 general election which was held in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May in 2014. The results of the election were announced on 16 May 2014 and this led to the formation of the 16th Lok Sabha. The Council assumed office from 27 May 2014.

The Council of Ministers included 10 female ministers, of whom 6 held the rank of Cabinet minister. This is the highest number of female Cabinet ministers in any Indian government in history. The only other government to appoint more than 1 female Cabinet minister, was the first UPA government from 2004 to 2009, which had 3 female Cabinet Ministers.

Background

The 2014 general election was held in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May, to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha. The results of the election were announced on 16 May 2014. On 20 May 2014, a meeting of the parliamentary party of BJP was organised at the Central Hall of the Parliament of India and Narendra Modi was elected as its leader. Subsequently, BJP president Rajnath Singh along with other leaders of the ally parties of NDA, met President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan and handed over the support letter of 335 members of parliament and claimed for the government formation. Following this, Mukherjee invited Modi and under the powers vested on him under Constitution of India, appointed him as the Prime Minister of India and sought his advice for the names of the members of the council of ministers of his government. On 9 November 2014, there was an expansion and reshuffling in his cabinet and 21 new cabinet ministers were sworn in.

History Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nripendra Misra as his Principal Secretary and Ajit Doval as National Security Advisor (NSA) in his first week in office. He also appointed IAS officer A.K. Sharma and Indian Forest Service officer Bharat Lal as joint secretaries in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Both officers were part of Modi's government in Gujarat during his tenure as Chief Minister.

On 31 May 2014, Prime Minister Modi abolished all existing Group of Ministers (GoMs) and Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoMs). A statement from the PMO explained, "This would expedite the process of decision making and usher in greater accountability in the system. The Ministries and Departments will now process the issues pending before the EGoMs and GoMs and take appropriate decisions at the level of Ministries and Departments itself". The UPA-II government had set up 68 GoMs and 14 EGoMs during its tenure, of which 9 EGoMs and 21 GoMs were inherited by the new government. The move was described by the Indian media as being in alignment with Modi's policy of "minimum government, maximum governance". The Indian Express stated that the GoMs and EGoMs had become "a symbol and an instrument of policy paralysis during the previous UPA government". The Times of India described the new government's decision as "a move to restore the authority of the Union Cabinet in decision-making and ensure ministerial accountability".

Newly appointed cabinet minister Gopinath Munde, who was in charge of the Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, and Drinking Water and Sanitation portfolios, died in a car crash in Delhi on 3 June 2014. Cabinet minister Nitin Gadkari, who is in charge of Road Transport and Highways, and Shipping, was assigned to look after Munde's portfolios on 4 June.

On 10 June 2014, in another step to downsize the government, Modi abolished four Standing Committees of the Cabinet. He also decided to reconstitute five crucial Cabinet Committees. These included the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) that handles all high-level defence and security matters, the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) that recommends to the President all senior bureaucratic appointments and postings, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) which is a sort of small cabinet and the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.

The Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers submitted their resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind on 24 May 2019, after the completion of their 5-year term. The President accepted the resignations and requested the Council of Ministers to continue until the new government assumed office.

List of ministers Council portfolios are as follows:

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Cabinet Ministers

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Demographics

Parties Party Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I/C) Ministers of State Total number of ministersBJP23113266LJP1001SS1001SAD1001RPI (A)0011AD (S)0011Total26113471

States StateCabinet MinistersMinisters of State (I/C)Ministers of StateTotal number of ministersName of ministersAndhra Pradesh1——1 Suresh PrabhuArunachal Pradesh——11 Kiren RijijuAssam——11 Rajen GohainBihar3227 Ram Vilas Paswan Ravi Shankar Prasad Radha Mohan Singh Giriraj Singh Raj Kumar Singh Ram Kripal Yadav Ashwini Kumar ChoubeyChhattisgarh——11 Vishnu Deo SaiGoa—1—1 Shripad Yesso NaikGujarat1—45 Smriti Irani Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Parshottam Rupala Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Mansukh MandaviyaHaryana1113 Chaudhary Birender Singh Rao Inderjit Singh Krishan Pal GurjarHimachal Pradesh1——1 Jagat Prakash NaddaJammu and Kashmir—1—1 Jitendra SinghJharkhand1—23 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sudarshan Bhagat Jayant SinhaKarnataka2—24 D. V. Sadananda Gowda Nirmala Sitharaman Ramesh Jigajinagi Anant Kumar HegdeMadhya Pradesh4—15 Sushma Swaraj Narendra Singh Tomar Thawar Chand Gehlot Dharmendra Pradhan Virendra Kumar KhatikMaharashtra4—37 Nitin Gadkari Anant Geete Prakash Javadekar Piyush Goyal Ramdas Athawale Hansraj Ahir Subhash BhamreOdisha1——1 Jual OramPunjab1—12 Harsimrat Kaur Badal Vijay SamplaRajasthan—257 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Alphons Kannanthanam Vijay Goel Arjun Ram Meghwal C. R. Chaudhary P. P. Chaudhary Gajendra Singh ShekhawatTamil Nadu——11 Pon RadhakrishnanUttar Pradesh54616 Narendra Modi (Prime Minister) Rajnath Singh Arun Jaitley Uma Bharati Maneka Gandhi Santosh Kumar Gangwar Mahesh Sharma Manoj Sinha Hardeep Singh Puri V. K. Singh Shiv Pratap Shukla Niranjan Jyoti Krishna Raj Anupriya Singh Patel Satya Pal SinghUttarakhand——11 Ajay TamtaWest Bengal——22 S. S. Ahluwalia Babul SupriyoDelhi1——1 Harsh VardhanTotal26113471

Demographics of former minister

Parties Party Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I/C) Ministers of State Total number of ministersBJP641121TDP1012RLSP0011Total741324

States StateCabinet MinistersMinisters of State (I/C)Ministers of StateTotal number of ministersName of ministersAndhra Pradesh1—12 Ashok Gajapathi Raju Y. S. ChowdaryAssam—1—1 Sarbananda SonowalBihar—112 Rajiv Pratap Rudy Upendra KushwahaGujarat——22 Mansukhbhai Vasava Mohan KundariyaKarnataka1—12 Ananth Kumar G. M. SiddeshwaraMadhya Pradesh1124 Najma Heptulla Anil Madhav Dave Faggan Singh Kulaste M. J. AkbarMaharashtra1—12 Gopinath Munde Raosaheb DanveRajasthan1—23 M. Venkaiah Naidu Nihalchand Sanwar Lal JatTelangana—1—1 Bandaru DattatreyaUttar Pradesh2—35 Kalraj Mishra Manohar Parrikar Sanjeev Balyan Ram Shankar Katheria Mahendra Nath PandeyTotal741324

See also National Democratic Alliance 2014 Indian cabinet reshuffle List of members of the 16th Lok Sabha Union Council of Ministers Premiership of Narendra Modi

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References

External links

Website of Cabinet Secretariat of India Council of Ministers – Official Portal of the Indian Government