🇮🇳 Union Council of Ministers
Government of India • Official list as of 2026
President
Ms. Droupadi Murmu
Vice-President
Mr. C.P. Radhakrishnan
Cabinet Ministers
The highest‑ranking members of the Union Council of Ministers, led by the Prime Minister.
Mr. Narendra Modi
Prime Minister
In‑charge of: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; All important policy issues; and all portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Mr. Rajnath Singh
Defence
Mr. Amit Shah
Home Affairs; Cooperation
Mr. Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Road Transport and Highways
Mr. Jagat Prakash Nadda
Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers
Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Development
Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance; Corporate Affairs
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
External Affairs
Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar
Housing and Urban Affairs; Power
Mr. H. D. Kumaraswamy
Heavy Industries; Steel
Mr. Piyush Goyal
Commerce and Industry
Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan
Education
Mr. Jitan Ram Manjhi
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh)
Panchayati Raj; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Mr. Sarbananda Sonowal
Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Dr. Virendra Kumar
Social Justice and Empowerment
Mr. Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu
Civil Aviation
Mr. Pralhad Joshi
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; New and Renewable Energy
Mr. Jual Oram
Tribal Affairs
Mr. Giriraj Singh
Textiles
Mr. Ashwini Vaishnaw
Railways; Information and Broadcasting; Electronics and Information Technology
Mr. Jyotiradiya M. Scindia
Communications; Development of North Eastern Region
Mr. Bhupender Yadav
Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Mr. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Culture; Tourism
Ms. Annpurna Devi
Women and Child Development
Mr. Kiren Rijiju
Parliamentary Affairs; Minority Affairs
Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri
Petroleum and Natural Gas
Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
Labour and Employment; Youth Affairs and Sports
Mr. G. Kishan Reddy
Coal; Mines
Mr. Chirag Paswan
Food Processing Industries
Mr. C R Patil
Jal Shakti
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Ministers who head their own departments and are not subordinate to a Cabinet Minister.
Rao Inderjit Singh
Statistics and Programme Implementation · MoS in Planning; Culture
Dr. Jitendra Singh
Science and Technology; Earth Sciences · MoS in PMO, Personnel, Pensions, Atomic Energy, Space
Mr. Arjun Ram Meghwal
Law and Justice · MoS in Parliamentary Affairs
Mr. Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao
Ayush · MoS in Health and Family Welfare
Mr. Jayant Chaudhary
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship · MoS in Education
Ministers of State
Junior ministers who assist Cabinet Ministers and work under their supervision.
Mr. Jitin Prasada
Commerce and Industry; Electronics and Information Technology
Mr. Shripad Yesso Naik
Power; New and Renewable Energy
Mr. Pankaj Chaudhary
Finance
Mr. Krishan Pal
Cooperation
Mr. Ramdas Athawale
Social Justice and Empowerment
Mr. Ram Nath Thakur
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Mr. Nityanand Rai
Home Affairs
Ms. Anupriya Patel
Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers
Mr. V. Somanna
Jal Shakti; Railways
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
Rural Development; Communications
Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Panchayati Raj
Miss Sushri Sobha Karandlaje
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Labour and Employment
Mr. Kirtivardhan Singh
Environment, Forest and Climate Change; External Affairs
Mr. B. L. Verma
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Social Justice and Empowerment
Mr. Shantanu Thakur
Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Mr. Suresh Gopi
Petroleum and Natural Gas; Tourism
Dr. L. Murugan
Information and Broadcasting; Parliamentary Affairs
Mr. Ajay Tamta
Road Transport and Highways
Mr. Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Home Affairs
Mr. Kamlesh Paswan
Rural Development
Mr. Bhagirath Choudhary
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Mr. Satish Chandra Dubey
Coal; Mines
Mr. Sanjay Seth
Defence
Mr. Ravneet Singh
Food Processing Industries; Railways
Mr. Durgadas Uikey
Tribal Affairs
Ms. Raksha Nikhil Khadse
Youth Affairs and Sports
Mr. Sukanta Majumdar
Education; Development of North Eastern Region
Ms. Savitri Thakur
Women and Child Development
Mr. Tokhan Sahu
Housing and Urban Affairs
Mr. Raj Bhushan Choudhary
Jal Shakti
Mr. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
Heavy Industries; Steel
Mr. Harsh Malhotra
Corporate Affairs; Road Transport and Highways