Modi Cabinet 2.0: From Amit Shah to Anurag Thakur, here is the list of first-time ministers and their portfolios

BJP president Amit Shah and former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar are most prominent faces in considerable number of first-timers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet. While Shah got hold of Home Ministry, Jaishankar will helm External Affairs.

Modi's Cabinet has six new Cabinet ministers and close to 15 new Ministers of State. Here's how new faces have fared -

Former Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal will be handling HRD ministry.

Popular tribal leer and former chief minister of Jharkhand, Arjun Munda, me it to big league and will take care of  Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

Shiv Sena's Arvind Ganpat Sawant,  MP from Mumbai-South, will w be in-charge of Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

A lawmaker from Karnataka, Pralh Joshi, who won with one of highest margins in Karnataka, will he  Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs along with charge of Coal and Mines.

BJP MP from Chandauli, Mahendra Nath Pandey has been given post of Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in 17th Lok Sabha.

Under category of Ministers of State, new-inductee Anurag Thakur will be part of  Finance Ministry.

Debasree Chaudhuri from West Bengal will be MoS in Women and Child Development Ministry.

Talked about for his austere lifestyle, BJP MP from Odisha Pratap Chandra Sarangi will look after MSMEs and Ministry of Animal Husbandry.

Or new Ministers of State are - Prahal Singh Patel G Kishan Reddy, Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, Debasree Chaudhuri, Kailash Choudhary, Rameswar Teli Nityanand Rai, Rattan Lal Kataria, V Muraleedharan, Renuka Singh Saruta, Som Parkash and Angi Suresh Channabasappa.

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