SEVEN ex-chief ministers are part of the Modi Cabinet this time. Apart from Narendra Modi, the other six former CMs are Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal, Rajnath Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Jitan Ram Manjhi and HD Kumaraswamy.
While Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Manohar Lal (Haryana), Rajnath Singh (Uttar Pradesh)and Sonowal belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, Manjhi (Bihar) and Kumaraswamy( Karnataka) belong to the alliance partners, Hindustan Awam Morcha and Janata Dal (S) respectively.
Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat thrice before taking over as Prime Minister in 2014. Chouhan, popularly called ‘mama’ by his followers, was the CM of Madhya Pradesh, four times before he was replaced by Mohan Yadav after the Assembly polls recently. From being an RSS pracharak, Manohar Lal was the first chief minister of Haryana from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won from the Karnal constituency in the Lok Sabha election.
Rajnath Singh was the Chief Minister of UP for a brief stint of two years from 2000 to 2002. Manjhi, who heads the HAM, and Kumaraswamy had helmed Bihar and Karnataka for short stints. Sonowal was also the first CM from the BJP in Assam who made way for Himanta Biswa Sarma in 2021 although the party had won the assembly polls under his leadership.
Team Modi
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh
Amit Shah
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Jagat Prakash Nadda
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Nirmala Sitharaman
S Jaishankar
Manohar Lal
HD Kumaraswamy
Piyush Goyal
Dharmendra Pradhan
Jitan Ram Manjhi
Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh)
Sarbananda Sonowal
Virendra Kumar
Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu
Pralhad Joshi
Jual Oram
Giriraj Singh
Ashwini Vaishnaw
Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
Bhupender Yadav
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Annpurna Devi
Kiren Rijiju
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh Mandaviya
G Kishan Reddy
Chirag Paswan
CR Patil
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Rao Inderjit Singh
Jitendra Singh
Arjun Ram Meghwal
Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao
Jayant Chaudhary
Ministers of State
Jitin Prasada
Shripad Yesso Naik
Pankaj Chaudhary
Krishan Pal
Ramdas Athawale
Ram Nath Thakur
Nityanand Rai
Anupriya Patel
V Somanna
Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
SP Singh Baghel
Sobha Karandlaje
Kirtivardhan Singh
BL Verma
Shantanu Thakur
Suresh Gopi
L Murugan
Ajay Tamta
Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Kamlesh Paswan
Bhagirath Choudhary
Satish Chandra Dubey
Sanjay Seth
Ravneet Singh
Durgadas Uikey
Raksha Nikhil Khadse
Sukanta Majumdar
Savitri Thakur
Tokhan Sahu
Raj Bhushan Choudhary
Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
Harsh Malhotra
Nimuben Bambhaniya
Murlidhar Mohol
George Kurian
Pabitra Margherita
