UP has the biggest share in Modi ministry. Here’s where other states stand

A look at which states ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government represent in Parliament after the Cabinet reshuffle.

The importance of Uttar Pradesh — the most populous state — remained visible as Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejigged his ministerial team on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted nine new ministers as he reshuffled his team on Sunday. (PTI Photo)

The state, where the BJP has come to power after 15 years, continues to have the highest number of members on the Union Council, with 12 ministers representing UP in Parliament. Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP bagged 71 out of 80 seats in the previous Lok Sabha poll, came under the party earlier this year when it defeated the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance.

Modi also represents UP in the Lok Sabha from Varanasi.

Another key Hindi-belt state, Bihar, will be represented by eight ministers in the revamped Union council of ministers. The party has added more ministers from Bihar after it entered into an alliance with Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).

The total number of ministers now stand at 75 (excluding the PM). There are 57 ministers from the Lok Sabha, while only 18 are from the Rajya Sabha.

Here is a list of the ministers according to the states they represent in Parliament:

◼ indicates Rajya Sabha MP . Cabinet ranks marked in bold. *MoS with independent

STATE	NAME
Andhra Pradesh	Suresh Prabhu
	Ashok G Raju
	Y.S. Chowdary
Arunachal Pradesh	Kiren Rijiju
Assam	Rajen Gohain
Bihar	Ram Vilas Paswan
	Ravi Shankar Prasad
	Radha Mohan Singh
	Dharmendra Pradhan
	Ram Kripal Yadav
	Giriraj Singh*
	Upendra Kushwaha
	Ashwini Choubey
	RK Singh*
Chhattisgarh	Vishnu Deo Sai
Goa	Sripad Yasso Naik*
Gujarat	Arun Jaitley
	Smriti Irani
	Haribhai Chaudhary
	Parshottam Rupala
	Jaswantsinh Bhabhor
	Mansukh Mandaviya
Haryana	C Birender Singh
	Rao Inderjit Singh*
	Krishan Pal
Himachal Pradesh	JP Nadda
Jammu and Kashmir	Jitendra Singh*

STATE	NAME
Jharkhand	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
	Sudarshan Bhagat
	Jayant Sinha
Karnataka	Sadananda Gowda
	Ananth Kumar
	Nirmala Sitharaman
	Ramesh Jigajinagi
	Anantkumar
Kerala	No representation
Madhya Pradesh	Sushma Swaraj
	Narendra S Tomar
	Thawar Chand Gehlot
	Prakash Javadekar
	MJ Akbar
	Virendra Kumar
Maharashtra	Nitin Gadkari
	Anant Geete
	Piyush Goyal
	Ramdas Athawle
	Hansraj Ahir
	Subhash Bhamre
Manipur	No representation
Meghalaya	No representation
Mizoram	No representation
Nagaland	No representation
Odisha	Jual Oram
Punjab	Harsimrat Kaur Badal
	Vijay Sampia
Rajasthan	Rajyavardhan Rathore*
	Arjun Ram Meghwal
	C. R. Chaudhary
	P.P. Chaudhary
	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

STATE	NAME
Sikkim	No representation
Tamil Nadu	P Radhakrishnan
Telengana	No representation
Tripura	No representation
Uttar Pradesh	Narendra Modi
	Maneka Gandhi
	Uma Bharati
	Rajnath Singh
	Mahesh Sharma*
	Manoj Sinha*
	V.K. Singh
	Santosh K Gangwar*
	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
	Satya Pal Singh
	Krishna Raj
	Anupriya Patel
	Shiv Pratap Shukla
Uttarakhand	Ajay Tamta
West Bengal	S.S Ahluwalia
	Babul Supriyo
Delhi	Harsh Vardhan
	Vijay Goel*
Puducherry	No representation
UNELECTED	Hardep Puri*
	A Kannanthanam*

TOTAL MINISTERS: PM + 75

RAJYA SABHJA: 18

Lok Sabha: 57

cabinet: 27

MoS Independent: 11

MoS: 37