The Second Modi ministry was the Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2019 general election which was held in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019. The results of the election were announced on 23 May 2019 and this led to the formation of the 17th Lok Sabha. The oath ceremony was arranged in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan at Raisina Hill. The heads of the states of BIMSTEC countries were invited as guests of honor for this ceremony.
On 7 July 2021, the government went through a ministry expansion with several big names dropped and new faces sworn in. Many current ministers were also given promotion for their good work.
Following the victory of the National Democratic Alliance in the 2024 general election, Prime Minister Modi and the council of ministers tendered their resignation to the President of India on 5 June 2024. However, they remained in office on caretaker basis until a new cabinet assumed office. On 9 June 2024, the new Cabinet of Third Modi ministry was sworn in with Modi again as Prime Minister.
History
The Second Modi ministry came into existence following the 2019 general election to the 17th Lok Sabha in which the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance emerged victorious winning 353 of the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha. On 31 May 2019, Narendra Modi was sworn-in as the Prime Minister for the second time by President Ram Nath Kovind along with his council of ministers. The council of ministers which was sworn-in into office on 31 May 2019 consisted of 24 ministers with cabinet rank, 9 ministers of state with independent charge, and 24 ministers of state.
On August 8, 2023, Gaurav Gogoi moved a no-confidence motion against the second Modi ministry in the Lok Sabha. The government defeated the motion.
Reshuffle and changes Since the formation of the ministry in May 2019, the council of ministers had undergone several major and minor changes under various circumstances. 12 November 2019: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister Arvind Sawant of Shiv Sena resigned from the cabinet after Shiv Sena's withdrawal from NDA. Prakash Javadekar was assigned the additional charge of his ministry. 18 September 2020: Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal of Shiromani Akali Dal resigned from the cabinet after Akali Dal's withdrawal from NDA in protest against three controversial farm laws. Narendra Singh Tomar was assigned the additional charge of the ministry. 23 September 2020: Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi died due to COVID-19 complications. 8 October 2020: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan of Lok Janshakti Party died after short illness. Piyush Goyal was assigned the additional charge of his ministry. 7 July 2021: A major cabinet reshuffle took place prior to which 12 ministers submitted their resignation. 15 ministers with cabinet rank and 27 ministers of state were inducted. Of the 15 cabinet ministers inducted, 7 ministers of state were promoted to cabinet rank. 6 July 2022: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Steel Minister Ramchandra Prasad Singh submitted their resignations prior to expiration of tenure as Rajya Sabha MPs. Smriti Irani was assigned the additional charge of Minority Affairs ministry while Jyotiraditya Scindia was assigned the charge of Steel ministry. 18 May 2023: Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju was appointed as Minister of Earth Sciences. Arjun Ram Meghwal was appointed as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice, while S. P. Singh Baghel was appointed as the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. 7 December 2023: Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Jal Shakti and Food Processing Industries Minister of State Prahlad Singh Patel, and Tribal Affairs Minister of State Renuka Singh Saruta resigned from the cabinet following their election to the state legislative assemblies; Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda assigned additional charge of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare ministry. Rajeev Chandrasekhar assigned additional charge as minister of state for Jal Shakti, Shobha Karandlaje as minister of state for Food Processing Industries, and Bharati Pawar as minister of state for Tribal Affairs. 19 March 2024: Food Processing Industries Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras of Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party resigned from the cabinet following seat-sharing disagreement; Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju assigned additional charge of the ministry.
List of ministers Cabinet Ministers
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Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
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Ministers of State
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Demographics
Parties Party Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I/C) Ministers of State Total number of ministersBJP27 34070RPI (A)0011AD (S)0011Total2734272
States State Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I/C) Ministers of State Total number of ministers Name of ministersArunachal Pradesh1——1 Kiren RijijuAssam1—11 Sarbananda Sonowal Rameswar TeliBihar2—24 Giriraj Singh Raj Kumar Singh
Ashwini Kumar Choubey Nityanand RaiGoa——11 Shripad Yesso NaikGujarat4—37 Amit Shah S. Jaishankar Mansukh Mandaviya Parshottam Rupala
Darshana Jardosh Devusinh Chauhan Mahendra MunjaparaHaryana—112 Rao Inderjit Singh
Krishan Pal GurjarHimachal Pradesh1——1 Anurag Singh ThakurJharkhand1—12 Arjun Munda
Annpurna DeviKarnataka2—46 Nirmala Sitharaman Prahlad Joshi
Rajeev Chandrasekhar Shobha Karandlaje A. Narayanaswamy Bhagwanth KhubaMadhya Pradesh3—25 Dharmendra Pradhan Virendra Kumar Khatik Jyotiraditya Scindia
Faggan Singh Kulaste L. MuruganMaharashtra3—69 Nitin Gadkari Piyush Goyal Narayan Rane
Raosaheb Danve Ramdas Athawale V. Muraleedharan Kapil Patil Bhagwat Karad Bharati PawarManipur——11 Rajkumar Ranjan SinghOdisha1—12 Ashwini Vaishnaw
Bishweswar TuduPunjab——11 Som PrakashRajasthan2114 Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Bhupender Yadav
Arjun Ram Meghwal
Kailash ChoudharyTelangana1——1 G. Kishan ReddyTripura——11 Pratima BhoumikUttar Pradesh5—1015 Narendra Modi (Prime Minister) Rajnath Singh Smriti Irani Hardeep Singh Puri Mahendra Nath Pandey
V. K. Singh Niranjan Jyoti Sanjeev Balyan Pankaj Chaudhary Anupriya Singh Patel S. P. Singh Baghel Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma Kaushal Kishore B. L. Verma Ajay Mishra TeniUttarakhand——11 Ajay BhattWest Bengal——44 Subhas Sarkar Shantanu Thakur John Barla Nisith PramanikDelhi——11 Meenakshi LekhiJammu and Kashmir—1—1 Jitendra SinghTotal2734272
Demographics of former ministers Parties Party Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I/C) Ministers of State Total number of ministersBJP81817SS1001SAD1001LJP1001JD (U)1001RLJP1001Total131822
States State Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I/C) Ministers of State Total number of ministers Name of ministersBihar4——4 Ram Vilas Paswan Ravi Shankar Prasad Ramchandra Prasad Singh Pashupati Kumar ParasChhattisgarh——11 Renuka SinghHaryana——11 Rattan Lal KatariaJharkhand1——1 Mukhtar Abbas NaqviKarnataka1—12 D. V. Sadananda Gowda Suresh AngadiMadhya Pradesh2—13 Thawar Chand Gehlot Narendra Singh Tomar Prahlad Singh PatelMaharashtra2—13 Prakash Javadekar Arvind Sawant Sanjay Shamrao DhotreOdisha——11 Pratap Chandra SarangiPunjab1——1 Harsimrat Kaur BadalUttar Pradesh—1—1 Santosh Kumar GangwarUttarakhand1——1 Ramesh PokhriyalWest Bengal——22 Babul Supriyo Debasree ChaudhuriDelhi1——1 Harsh VardhanTotal131822
Initiatives
According to Shashi Tharoor, some noteworthy achievements are the rapid construction of infrastructure, including new ports, airports and highways, relying on private contractors; modernisation of the rail network of India; strengthening the social safety net for millions of poor Indians; providing toilets, cooking gas cylinders; cash transfers to farmers and access to electricity and drinking water in rural India; progress in technology diffusion; cheap data plans for android phones, connecting nearly a billion Indians to the Internet; enabling private companies to create commons online; stimulating growth in the startup culture, mainly in the tech domain, and several unicorns; digital money transfer via Unified Payments Interface (direct money transfers between bank accounts); reducing middlemen by paying social benefits directly to the accounts of beneficiaries and effective Indian diplomacy, all with high approval ratings.
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See also
National Democratic Alliance 2021 Indian cabinet reshuffle List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha Union Council of Ministers Premiership of Narendra Modi
References
External links
Website of Cabinet Secretariat of India Council of Ministers – Official Portal of the Indian Government