The Union Cabinet expansion in Tuesday took the heaviest toll on the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Ministry with two of its junior ministers making way for the new faces. While Mohan Bhai Kundariya has been dropped another one Sanjiv Baliyan has been shunted out from the Ministry.
The three new faces who have joined the Ministry as Radha Mohan’s juniors include S S Ahulwalia, Parshottam Rupala and Sudarshan Bhagat. While Ahulwalia will have additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs, Rupala would also look after the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan has been shunted to the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga 
Rejuvenation as perhaps Uma Bharati is not performing the way she was expected to.
With NDA govt emphasis on agriculture and rural development at its focus the govt is taking no chance and is decorating the ministry with maximum number of ministers, said an insider. It has also increased the budget for farm production in an unprecedented way, reminded the source.
Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers
Cabinet Ministers
- Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
- Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs
- Arun Jaitley – Finance & Corporate Affairs
- M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information & Broadcasting
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways & Shipping
- Manohar Parrikar – Defence
- Suresh Prabhu – Railways
- D V Sadananda Gowda – Statistics & Programme Implementation
- Uma Bharati – Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Najma A Heptulla – Minority Affairs
- Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
- Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- Maneka Sanjay Gandhi – Women & Child Development
- Ananth Kumar – Chemicals & Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs
- Ravi Shankar Prasad – Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
- Jagat Prakash Nadda – Health & Family Welfare
- Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati – Civil Aviation
- Anant Geete – Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
- Narendra Singh Tomar – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj Drinking Water & Sanitation
- Chaudhary Birender Singh – Steel
- Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
- Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
- Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
- Smriti Zubin Irani – Textiles
- Harsh Vardhan – Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
- Prakash Javadekar – Human Resource Development
Ministers of State
- Rao Inderjit Singh – Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
- Vijay Goel – Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Shripad Yesso Naik – AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
- Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
- Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)
- Jitendra Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
- Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
- Mahesh Sharma – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
- Manoj Sinha – Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
- Anil Madhav Dave – Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
- VK Singh – External Affairs
- Santosh Kumar Gangwar – Finance
- Faggan Singh Kulaste – Health & Family Welfare
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
- SS Ahluwalia – Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
- Ramdas Athawale – Social Justice & Empowerment
- Ram Kripal Yadav – Rural Development
- Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary – Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- Giriraj Singh – Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- Hansraj Gangaram Ahir – Home Affairs
- GM Siddeshwara – Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
- Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi – Drinking Water & Sanitation
- Rajen Gohain – Railways
- Parshottam Rupala – Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Panchayati Raj
- MJ Akbar – External Affairs
- Upendra Kushwaha – Human Resources Development
- Radhakrishnan P – Road Transport & Highways Shipping
- Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
- Krishan Pal – Social Justice & Empowerment
- Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor – Tribal Affairs
- Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Vishnu Deo Sai – Steel
- Sudarshan Bhagat – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- YS Chowdary – Science & Technology, Earth Science
- Jayant Sinha – Civil Aviation
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information & Broadcasting
- Babul Supriyo – Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti – Food Processing Industries
- Vijay Sampla – Social Justice & Empowerment
- Arjun Ram Meghwal – Finance, Corporate Affairs
- Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey – Human Resource Development
- Ajay Tamta – Textiles
- Krishna Raj – Women & Child Development
- Mansukh L Mandaviya – Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilisers
