Modi cabinet 3.0: Jitin Prasada, SY Naik, Ramdas Athawale, Anupriya Patel among the ministers of state

Modi cabinet 3.0: Ministers of the newly-formed cabinet, helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took oath on Sunday. The ministry includes some of the bigwigs like Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dr S Jaishankar, JP Nadda, Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Jyotiraditya Scindia.

Apart from the 30 cabinet ministers, and five Ministers of State (Independent Charge), namely Rao Inderjit Singh, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao, and Jayant Chaudhary, there are 36 Ministers of State. 

Here’s a list of all the Ministers of State who took oath under Modi cabinet 3.0: 

1. Jitin Prasada
2. Shripad Yesso Naik
3. Pankaj Chaudhary
4. Krishan Pal
5. Ramdas Athawale
6. Ram Nath Thakur
7. Nityanand Rai
8. Anupriya Patel
9. V. Somanna
10. Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
11. Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel
12. Sushri Sobha Karandlaje
13. Kirtivardhan Singh
14. BL Verma
15. Shantanu Thakur
16. Suresh Gopi
17. Dr. L. Murugan
18. Ajay Tamta
19. Bandi Sanjay Kumar
20. Kamlesh Paswan
21. Bhagirath Choudhary
22. Satish Chandra Dubey
23. Sanjay Seth
24. Ravneet Singh
25. Durgadas Uikey
26. Raksha Nikhil Khadse
27. Sukanta Majumdar
28. Savitri Thakur
29. Tokhan Sahu
30. Raj Bhushan Choudhary
31. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
32. Harsh Malhotra
33. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
34. Murlidhar Mohol
35. George Kurian
36. Pabitra Margherita

Of the ministers, Ravneet Singh and George Kurian, are not members of either Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha and need to become a member of the parliament within six months of their oath-taking. 

The Rajya Sabha members who have been inducted as Ministers of State are Ramdas Athawale, Ramnath Thakur, B L Verma, L Murugan, Satish Chandra Dubey and Pabitra Margherita.