The document lists the names, portfolios, dates of assuming and leaving office, and political parties of various ministers in the Government of India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Key ministers mentioned include Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, Arun Jaitley as Finance Minister, Rajnath Singh as Home Minister, Smriti Irani as Human Resource Development Minister, Manohar Parrikar as Defence Minister, and Sushma Swaraj as External Affairs Minister. The document provides details of the various cabinet positions held by members of Modi's government since he assumed office in May 2014.

2. Portfolio Name of the
minister
Took office Left office Party
Prime Minister
Minister Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions
Department of atomic energy
Department of space
Mr. Narendra
Modi
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Home minister Mr. Rajnath
Singh
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Finance minister Mr. Arun
Jaitley
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Defence minister Mr. Arun
Jaitley
Mr. Manohar
Parrikar
26/5/2014
9/11/2014
9/11/2014
Incumbent
B.J.P.
B.J.P.

3. Portfolio Name of the
minister
Took office Left office Party
Minister of External Affairs
Minister of Overseas Indian
Affairs
Mrs. Sushma
Swaraj 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of information and
broadcasting
Mr. Arun Jaitley 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Railway minister Mr. Sadanand
Gowda
Mr. Suresh
Parbhu
26/5/2014
9/11/2014
9/11/2014
Incumbent
B.J.P.
B.J.P.
Minister of Urban
Development
Minister of Housing and
Urban Poverty Alleviation
Minister of Parliamentary
Affairs
Mr. M. Venkaiah
Naidu
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Road Transport
and Highways
Minister of Shipping
Mr. Nitin
Gadkari 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.

4. Portfolio Name of the
minister
Took office Left office Party
Minister of Law and Justice Mr. Ravi Shankar
Prasad
Mr. Sadanand
Gowda
26/5/2014
9/11/2014
9/11/2014
Incumbent
B.J.P.
B.J.P.
Minister of Water Resources,
River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation
Mrs. Uma Bharti 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Minority resources Mrs. Najma
Heptulla
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Rural Development
Minister of Panchayat Raj
Minister of Drinking Water and
Sanitation
Mr. Gopinath
Munde
Mr. Nitin Gadkari
Mr. Birendar
Singh
26/5/2014
4/6/2014
9/11/2014
3/6/2014
9/11/2014
Incumbent
B.J.P.
B.J.P.
B.J.P.

5. Portfolio Name of the
minister
Took office Left office Party
Minister of Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution
Mr. Ram Vilas
Paswan 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Micro, Small and
Large Enterprises
Mr. Kalraj Mishra 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Women and
Child Development
Mrs. Menka
Gandhi
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Chemicals and
Fertilizers
Mr. Anath Kumar 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Communications
and Information Technology
Mr. Ravi Shankar
Prasad
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Civil Aviation Mr. Ashok
Gajapati Raju
Puspati
26/5/2014 Incumbent T.D.P.
Minister of Heavy Industries
and Public Enterprise
Mr. Anant Geete 26/5/2014 Incumbent Shiv Sena
Minister of Food Processing
Industries
Mrs. Harsimrat
Kaur Badal
26/5/2014 Incumbent S.A.D.

6. Portfolio Name of the
minister
Took office Left office Party
Minister of Mines
Minister of Steel
Minister of Labour and
Employment
Mr. Narendra
Singh Tomar
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Tribal Affairs Mr. Jual Oram 26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Agriculture Mr. Radha
Mohan Singh
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Social Justice and
Empowerment
Mr. Thawar
Chand Ghelot
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Human Resource
Development
Mrs. Smriti
Irani
26/5/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Science and
Technology
Dr. Harsh
Vardhan
9/11/2014 Incumbent B.J.P.
Minister of Health and Family Dr. Harsh
Vardhan
Mr. J.P. Nadda
4/6/2014
9/11/2014
9/11/2014
Incumbent
B.J.P.
B.J.P.

8. Narendra Damodardas Modi was born 17 September 1950) is the 15th and
current Prime Minister of India, in office since May 2014.Modi, a leader of
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), previously served as the Chief Minister of
Gujarat state from 2001 to 2014. He is currently the Member of Parliament(MP)
from Varanasi.
Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which resulted in an outright
majority for the BJP in the Lok Sabha(the lower house of the Indian parliament)
– the last time that any party had secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha
was in 1984. Since then, Modi has also been credited for the BJP's electoral
victories in the states of Haryana and Maharashtra in October 2014.

9. Modi is a Hindu Nationalist and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS). He is a controversial figure both within India as well as
internationally as his administration has been criticized for failing to act to
prevent the 2002 Gujarat riots. Modi has been praised for his economic
policies, which are credited with creating an environment for a high rate of
economic growth in Gujarat. However, his administration has also been
criticized for failing to make a significant positive impact upon the human
development of the state. In his early Modi use to work at the tea stall of his
father.

10. Arun Jaitley (born 28 December 1952) is currently the Minister of Finance,
Minister of Corporate Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting of
India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has also
previously held the portfolios as the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Law
and Justice in the National Democratic Alliance government (1998–2004).In
the 2014 general election, he unsuccessfully contested as Bharatiya Janata
Party's candidate for Amritsar, where he was defeated by Indian National
Congress candidate, Captain Amarinder Singh.

11. Rajnath Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Union Minister of Home
Affairs in the Narendra Modi government. He previously served as the Chief
Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in
the Vajpayee Government. He has also served as the President of BJP twice,
2005-2009 and 2013-2014. He began his career as a physics lecturer and used
his long-term connections with the nationalist organization, Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh to become involved with the Janata Party.

12. Smriti Zubin Irani (née Malhotra, born 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician
and former model, television actress and producer. She represents
the Bharatiya Janata Party and is the incumbent Minister of Human Resource
Development of Government of India.

13. Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar( born 13 December 1955) is a
member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India, and Defence Minister in
the Government of India. Before being inducted into the Council of
Ministers of the Union Government on 9 November 2014, he was Chief
Minister of Goa, first from 2000 to 2005 (Goa's first BJP chief minister), and
later from March 2012 to November 2014. He was replaced by Laxmikant
Parsekar as Goa's CM. Parrikar had represented the Panaji constituency in
the Legislative Assembly of Goa when he was a player in the state politics.

14. Sushma Swaraj (born 14 February 1952) is an Indian politician and the
current Minister of External Affairs of India. She is the second woman to be
India's external affairs minister, first being Indira Gandhi. She has been
elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member
of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25, she became Haryana's youngest
cabinet minister and in 1998, also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short
term. In Indian general election, 2014, she won from Vidisha constituency
in Madhya Pradesh. She became the External Affairs Minister in union cabinet
on 26 May 2014. She retained her Vidisha parliamentary seat by over 400,000
votes in the 16th Lok Sabha in the general election held in May 2014.