Cabinet Ministers
Of the following 33 ministers, 27 are from the Indian National Congress including the Prime Minister. The Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar heads the Nationalist Congress Party while the Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee heads the Trinamool Congress and Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New And Renewable Energy heads the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran, Telecom Minister A. Raja and the Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister M. K. Azhagiri are from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
[edit] Minister of State (Independent Charges)
A 'Minister of State with independent charge' is a junior Minister in the Federal (State) or Central Government of India but is in charge of a ministry, unlike Minister of State who is also a junior Minister but assists a cabinet minister. All the following seven ministers are from the Indian National Congress except for Praful Patel who is from the Nationalist Congress Party.
Sl. No. |
Name |
Responsible Ministries |
Age (in years) |
Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha |
Educational Qualification |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salman Khursheed | Minister of State of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Ministry of Minority Affairs | 57 | Lok Sabha, Farrukhabad Uttar Pradesh | B.A., M.A., B.CL. (Oxford University) | |
| 2 | Praful Patel | Minister of State of the Ministry of Civil Aviation | 52 | Lok Sabha, Bhandara-Gondiya, Maharashtra | B.Com. (University of Bombay) | |
| 3 | Krishna Tirath | Minister of State of the Ministry of Women and Child Development | 54 | Lok Sabha, North West Delhi (SC) (Delhi ) | M.A., B.Ed. (University of Delhi) | |
| 4 | Jairam Ramesh | Minister of State of the Ministry of Environment and Forests | 55 | Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh | B.Tech, IIT-B, MSM, Heinz College | |
| 5 | Prithviraj Chavan | Minister of State of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and in charge of Prime Minister's Office | 63 | Rajya Sabha, Maharashtra | B.E (Hons.), BITS Pilani; M.S, UC Berkeley | |
| 6 | Shriprakash Jaiswal | Minister of State of the Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | 65 | Lok Sabha, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh ) | Intermediate (D.A.V. College, Kanpur) | |
| 7 | Dinsha Patel | Minister of State of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | 72 | Lok Sabha, Kheda (Gujarat ) | Matriculate |
[edit] Ministers of State
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