The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, appointed the following as members of the Council of Ministers:-

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Shri Virbhadra Singh

2. Dr. Farooq Abdullah

3. Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh

4. Shri Dayanidhi Maran

5. Shri A. Raja

6. Shri Mallikarjun Kharge

7. Kumari Selja

8. Shri Subodh Kant Sahay

9. Dr. M.S. Gill

10. Shri G.K. Vasan

11. Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal

12. Shri Mukul Wasnik

13. Shri Kantilal Bhuria

14. Shri M.K. Alagiri

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1. Shri Praful Patel

2. Shri Prithviraj Chauhan

3. Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal

4. Shri Salman Khursheed

5. Shri Dinsha Patel

6. Shrimati Krishna Tirath

7. Shri Jairam Ramesh

MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Shri Srikant Jena

2. Shri E. Ahamed

3. Shri Mullappally Ramachandran

4. Shri V. Narayanasamy

5. Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia

6. Shrimati D. Purandeswari

7. Shri K.H. Muniyappa

8. Shri Ajay Maken

9. Shrimati Panabaka Lakshmi

10. Shri Namo Narain Meena

11. Shri M.M. Pallam Raju

12. Shri Saugata Ray

13. Shri S.S. Palanimanickam

14. Shri Jitin Prasad

15. Shri A. Sai Prathap

16. Shri Gurudas Kamat

17. Shri Harish Rawat

18. Professor K.V. Thomas

19. Shri Bharatsinh Solanki

20. Shri Mahadev Khandela

21. Shri Dinesh Trivedi

22. Shri Sisir Adhikari

23. Shri Sultan Ahmed

24. Shri Mukul Roy

25. Shri Mohan Jatua

26. Shri D. Napoleon

27. Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan

28. Shri S. Gandhiselvan

29. Smt. Preneet Kaur

30. Shri Tusharbhai Chaudhary

31. Shri Sachin Pilot

32. Shri Arun Yadav

33. Shri Prateek Prakashbapu Patil

34. Shri R.P.N. Singh

35. Shri Shashi Tharoor

36. Shri Vincent Pala

37. Shri Pradeep Jain

38. Ms. Agatha Sangma

The President administered the oaths of office and secrecy to the above members of the Council of Ministers at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, today.

The release issued at 1900 hrs