Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Communications, leads the list with an asset declaration of Rs 5705.47 crores.
Besides big four, PM s core team of ministers have also retained their portfolios. Nitin Gadkari (road transport and highways), Piyush Goyal (commerce and industry), Dharmendra Pradhan (education), Sarbananda Sonowal (ports, shipping and waterways), Virendra Kumar (social justice and empowerment), Ashwini Vaishnaw (railways, electronics and information technology), Hardeep Puri (petroleum and natural gas) and Bhupender Yadav (environment, forest and climate change) will continue running the ministries they were handling in the last five years. Some of them have shed additional portfolios that were allocated when others left the council of ministers in the past.
NewswrapIndia: Following his historic third consecutive term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assigned portfolios to his 71-member council of ministers. The
Prime Minister Narendra Modi largely reposed faith in the team from his previous administration, retaining the same Big Four cabinet members who comprise the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) as portfolios were announced on Monday evening.
The allocation of portfolios to the Union Council of Ministers on Monday reflected change with continuity with several senior leaders retaining their portfolios of the previous BJP-led NDA government and some new faces also getting key ministries that have a direct impact at the grassroots.