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Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election which gave the party a majority in the Indian lower
house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, the first time for any single party since 1984. Modi's
administration has tried to raise foreign direct investment in the Indian economy and reduced
spending on healthcare and social welfare programmes. Modi has attempted to improve efficiency in
the bureaucracy; he has centralised power by abolishing the Planning Commission. He began a high-
profile sanitation campaign, initiated a controversial demonetisation of high-denomination
banknotes and weakened or abolished environmental and labour laws.
nder Modi's tenure, India has experienced democratic backsliding.[f] Following his party's victory in
the 2019 general election, his administration revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. His
administration also introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act, which resulted in widespread
protests across the country
Affairs of the Government of India since 31 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and is a Member of
Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat. He has previously served as the Foreign Secretary
He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977 and during his diplomatic career spanning over 38 years, he served in different
capacities in India and abroad including as a High Commissioner to Singapore (2007–09) and as Ambassador to the Czech
Republic (2001–04), China (2009–2013) and USA (2014–2015). Jaishankar played a key role in negotiating the Indo-US
On retirement, Jaishankar joined Tata Sons as the President, Global Corporate Affairs.[4] In 2019, he was conferred with
Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour.[5] On 30 May 2019, he was sworn in as a cabinet minister in the second
Modi ministry.[6] He was made the Minister of External Affairs on 31 May 2019. He is the first former Foreign Secretary to
Amit Shah[2] (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs. He served as the
President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok
He has played an organizing and membership-promotional role in the elections of many states since 2014
In 2017, he was partly credited with the party victories in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat[6] and Manipur, A year later,
the BJP won 303 seats to get a majority in the 2019 Indian general election under Shah's leadership
Nirmala Sitharaman (born 18 August 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the current Minister of Finance and Corporate
Affairs of India. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, upper house of the Indian Parliament, since 2014. Sitharaman formerly
served as the Defence Minister of India, thereby becoming India's second female defence minister and also the second
female finance minister after Indira Gandhi and first full-time female Finance Minister.
Nirmala Sitharaman worked as a salesperson at Habitat, a home decor store in London's Regent Street.[30] She has served
as an assistant to Economist in the Agricultural Engineers Association in the UK. During her stay in the UK, she has also
served as a Senior Manager (R&D)[31] for PWC and briefly at the BBC World Service.[17]
She has also served as a member of National Commission for Women. Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2020–21 on
1 February 2020.
Nitin Jairam Gadkari (/nitin ɡʌdkʌˈri/ (About this soundlisten); born 27 May 1957) is an Indian politician and businessman from
Maharashtra[1] who is the current Minister for Road Transport & Highways and the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises[2] in the Government of India.[3] Gadkari earlier served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from
2009 to 2013.[4] He is also known for his work as the Public Works Department Minister of the State of Maharashtra, where,
under his leadership, a series of roads, highways and flyovers across the state were constructed – including the Mumbai-
Pune Expressway, India's first six-lane concrete, high-speed expressway.[5][6] Gadkari is closely associated with the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is headquartered in his home constituency of Nagpur.
Goyal became the Minister of Railways on 3 September 2017 taking charge from Suresh Prabhu.[20] Under his leadership,
Indian Railways established a ‘Zero Accident’ railway system and have seen no accidents for the past 22 months.[21][22] He
started 'Plan Bee', a method to prevent elephants from approaching the railway lines. It involves setting up of devices near
tracks, which emit the 'buzzing' sound of bees, saving elephants from train accidents.[23][24] He launched the first indigenous
semi-high speed train Vande Bharat Express between Delhi 2and Varanasi.[25][26] In all the mountain railways region of the
country, Goyal introduced Vista-Dome coaches, in an attempt to allow the passengers to enjoy the scenery of the hilly
Smriti Zubin Irani (née Malhotra; born 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician, former model, television actress, and producer.
Irani is a Minister in the Union Cabinet of India. She is serving in the cabinet of Narendra Modi as Minister of Textiles and was
given additional charge as Minister of Women and Child Development in the 2nd cabinet of Modi since May 2019. A
prominent leader within the Bharatiya Janata Party, she is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing Amethi.
Modi's newly elected government. He was put in charge of the Ministry of Railways.[15] He presented his maiden budget on 8
July 2014.
On 30 May 2019, Sadananda Gowda was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term
Sadanada Gowda has worked for the labour movement being the General Secretary of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Puttur
Division and President of Sullia Taluk Auto Rickshaw Drivers and Owners Union.
Arjun Munda defused the tension that was created due to the "Domicile movement"[9] in 2001–2002 and insisted that every
citizen of India had the fundamental right granted by the Indian Constitution to live and work in any part of the country.
During his tenure, Jharkhand got the 1st Lokayukta and the State successfully conducted the 34th National Games in 2011.A
32-year-long jinx was broken[clarification needed] when Jharkhand scripted history by conducting panchayat elections and
Ravi shankar prasad :As Minister in charge of Electronics and IT Ministry, Ravi Shankar Prasad encouraged electronics
manufacturing in India. In the year 2014, when Narendra Modi government took office, there were only two mobile phone
manufacturing units in India. In 2019, there were 268 mobile and ancillary manufacturing units in India. Under his leadership,
India became the second largest mobile phone producers in the world in 2019 from just two mobile factories in 2014.
Samsung started the world's largest mobile phone manufacturing unit in Noida in 2018. Production of other consumer
Dharmendra Pradhan has been the longest serving Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas in the history of independent
India. Popularly called the "Ujjwala Man",[2] Pradhan is credited with the success of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana launched
by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas under which over 8 million LPG connections have been provided to women from
In a brief tenure as the Minister of Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan has been working on to facilitate augmentation of production
capacity, ensure growth of secondary steel sector, jobs creation, ensures value addition and import substitution.
Narendra Singh Tomar (born 12 June 1957) is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. He is the Minister of
Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Food Processing Industries in the Second Modi
ministry. Previously he was the Minister of Mines and Minister of Parliamentary Affair in the Government of India. He is a
leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of Fifteenth Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2013 from Morena and
Pokhriyal started his career as a teacher in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Saraswati Shishu Mandir.[11] He was
first elected to public office in the erstwhile undivided Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
On 30 May 2019, he was sworn in as Minister of Human Resource Development in the 2nd Modi Government.[13][3]
Following the ministry's name change to the Ministry of Education (India) in July 2020, he served under the title of Minister of
Education.[2]
Pokhriyal has written novels, stories and poems. He has authored 44 books in Hindi, some of which have been translated to
English as well as other Indian languages. They have been described by some critics and literature connoisseurs as "heavy
Thaawar Chand Gehlot (born 18 May 1948) is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Minister of Social Justice and
Empowerment in the NDA Government. He is currently the Leader of the House in the upper house of Indian Parliament. He
is a member of the Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee of the BJP.[2]
He is a member of the Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parliament, representing the state of Madhya Pradesh. He was
awarded an honorary doctorate by the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University of Social Sciences.[5] He formerly represented Shajapur
in the lower house of Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha from 1996 to 2009.
On 30 May 2019, Harsh Vardhan was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's second term government. He is put in charge of the Minister of Health and Family
Welfare, Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.[26][27] Dr.
Harshvardhan as a cabinet minister in Narendra Modi government, declared reservation for
academic calendar 2020-2021 in MBBS and BDS colleges for the children of COVID-19 workers
who died during COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Prakash Keshav javdekar .He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and currently serving as the Minister of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Heavy Industries and
Public Enterprises. Following the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 Indian General Election, Javadekar was
appointed Minister State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forests and Climate Change by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi. He was also appointed as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.[3]. avadekar is now the Human Resource and
Development Minister of India and also a veteran spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Before becoming a National
He became Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs on 26 May 2014 in Narendra Modi ministry.[8] After
resignation of Najma Heptulla on 12 July 2016, he got independent charge of the Ministry of Minority Affairs.[9][10].He took
oath as cabinet minister in Narendra Modi's cabinet on 30 May 2019 and continued with the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
According to Naqvi, a "baseless" campaign had been started by Congress party to prevent Indian Muslims from joining the
Bharatiya Janata Party. Naqvi has also said that he does not harbour the allegationNaqvi feels that Muslims don't desert other
Muslims if they are given important posts in the Bharatiya Janata Party.[13] For the party to increase support amongst the
Muslims; he opines that they should feel that they are "equal citizens of this country", and also "understand that the bill on
Muslim Personal Law will not take away their right to practise their religion"s of Congress that as BJP came to power, there
Pandey was born at Pakhanpur, Uttar Pradesh to Sudhakar Pandey and Chandrawati Pandey in a Brahmin family.[2][3] He
received a postgraduate degree in Journalism and completed his Ph.D in Hindi from Banaras Hindu University.[2] In 1973, he
was elected president of the students' union of C.M. Anglo Bengali College. Five years later, he became the general secretary
Pandey spent five months in prison during the Emergency.[5][6] In 1978, he joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[6] He
took part in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and was booked under the National Security Act by the Mulayam Singh
In the Cabinet announcement made on 31 May 2019, Pandey has been given the post of Minister of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship in the 17th Lok Sabha under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pralhad Venkatesh[2] Joshi (born 27 November 1962) is an Indian politician who is the current union Minister of Coal, Mines
and Parliamentary Affairs of India, since from 30 May 2019 and Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, since from 2004,
representing the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency. He was also the State President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka
(BJP) from 2014 to 2016. He served in the panel of chairpersons of Lok sabha (2014-2018)
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
He publicly supported Modi for Prime Minister for a long time. He was among the eleven BJP ministers who were dismissed
by Nitish Kumar as a result of breaking the JDU-BJP alliance. He was a member of the Bihar State Bharatiya Janata Party's
16-member state election committee and a State Minister (independent charge) of the "Ministry of Micro Small and Medium
Giriraj Singh
In May 2019, he became the Cabinet minister of the newly formed Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries after
defeating CPI candidate Kanhaiya Kumar in the 2019 Indian general election.[4][5]
Singh served in the government of Bihar as co-operative minister from 2005 to 2010 and as Animal Husbandry minister from
2010 to 2013. He has been a staunch supporter of Narendra Modi from the beginning. He publicly supported Modi for Prime
Minister for a long time. He was among the eleven BJP ministers who were dismissed by Nitish Kumar as a result of breaking