Modi Cabinet 2.0: Rajnath Singh is the new Defence Minister, full portfolio allocation of the second Narendra Modi-led NDA government out

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers took oath in the second consecutive term of the NDA government, the allocation of portfolios has been released.

The former Home Minister Rajnath Singh has been allocated the Defence Minister

On Thursday the BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow Parliamentary constituency took oath as the Union Minister in the PM Modi Cabinet 2.0. at the swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 30. 

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Union Home Minister and BJP candidate Rajnath Singh won the Lucknow seat with a margin of 3,47,302 votes, he was in the fray with SP's Poonam Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha's wife.

In 2014, Rajnath Singh won the election by a resounding 5,61,106 votes, defeating Rita Bahuguna Joshi by a margin of 2,72,749 votes. In third place, Nakul Dubey won a total of 64,449 votes. Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been contesting from Lucknow since 1991 till 2004. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Lalji Tandon won the elections with 2,04,028 votes continuing the BJP winning streak.

In 1999-2000, Singh was the Union Cabinet Minister for Surface transport and Agriculture Minister in 2003-04 in the former Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He also served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2000-2002 and the BJP president from 2005-09 and 2013-14.

A former professor of physics, Singh played a crucial role in putting forth Narendra Modi's name as a Prime Ministerial candidate. 

Here is the Portfolio allocation list of the second consecutive Narendra Modi-led NDA government:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space

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• Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
• Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs
• Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Minister of Water Resources, MSMEs
• DV Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Piyush Goyal : Minister of Railways, Commerce and Industry
• Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs
• Ram Vilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
• Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Minister of Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmer welfare Minister of Panchayati Raj
• Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice, and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, communications 
• Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries
• Thaawarchand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
• S Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
• Ramesh Pokhriyal: Minister of HRD
• Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs
• Smriti Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development
• Prakash Javedekar: Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Environment, Forest and Climate change
•  Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare