2021 Indian cabinet reshuffle


On 7 July 2021 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out a reshuffle of his ministry. Modi carried out 3 cabinet reshuffles during his first ministry. The cabinet reshuffle of 2021 is the first cabinet reshuffle of the second Modi ministry.

Changes

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Anupriya Patel, Kapil Patil, Meenakshi Lekhi, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Darshana Jardosh, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Ramchandra Prasad Singh, Bharati Pawar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Nisith Pramanik, Shobha Karandlaje, Pratima Bhoumik, L. Murugan, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Pankaj Chaudhary, Kaushal Kishore, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Subhas Sarkar, Shantanu Thakur, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, S. P. Singh Baghel, Annapurna Devi Yadav, B. L. Verma, Devusinh Chauhan, Bhagwanth Khuba, Mahendra Munjapara, John Barla, Bishweswar Tudu and A. Narayanaswamy became new ministers.
Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, D. V. Sadananda Gowda, Santosh Gangwar, Sanjay Dhotre, Debasree Chaudhuri, Rattan Lal Kataria, Babul Supriyo, Thawarchand Gehlot and Pratap Sarangi left the Modi cabinet.
Anurag Thakur, G. Kishan Reddy, Kiren Rijiju, R. K. Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh L. Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala were promoted to cabinet rank ministers.

Subsequent changes

6 July 2022

A minor reshuffle of the ministry took place on 6 July 2022. Both Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Ramchandra Prasad Singh, whose tenure as members of the Rajya Sabha had come to an end, resigned from the ministry. Smriti Irani was assigned the additional portfolio of Minority Affairs while Jyotiraditya Scindia was assigned the additional portfolio of Steel.

18 May 2023

On 18 May 2023, Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju was appointed as the Minister of Earth Sciences, while the portfolio of Law and Justice was assigned to Arjun Ram Meghwal.

7 December 2023

On 7 December 2023, Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Singh Patel resigned from the ministry after being elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, and Renuka Singh Saruta resigned after her election to the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda was assigned the additional portfolio of Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare.

19 March 2024

Food Processing Industries Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras resigned from the ministry on 19 March 2024. Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju was assigned the additional portfolio.