Within 24 hours of taking oath, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assigned portfolios to his 71 ministers, and most of them have already started taking charge of their ministries. Modi has opted for continuity. He has not made any big changes in the portfolios of most of his senior cabinet ministers. Amit Shah will continue to be Home Minister and Rajnath Singh will continue to be Defence Minister in Modi 3.0. Nityanand Rai and Bandi Sanjay Kumar have been made ministers of state for Home, while Sanjay Seth will work as MoS in Defence. Nirmala Sitharaman will continue with her Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolio, with Pankaj Choudhary as MoS in Finance and Harsh Malhotra as MoS in Corporate Affairs. S Jaishankar will continue to handle External Affairs, with Kirtivardhan Singh and Pabitra Margherita as MoS. Nitin Gadkari, who has done monumental work in the last 10 years in building highways, will continue as Road Transport and Highways Minister, with Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra working as MoS with him.
