On 2 Cabinet committees in first list, Rajnath Singh now put on 6

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is a member of seven of the committees, barring the appointments committee, and replaces her mentor and predecessor Arun Jaitley in all these committees

The second stint of the Narendra Modi government has started with a tug of war between its top leadership, particularly on whether Defence Minister Rajnath Singh or Home Minister Amit Shah would be the number two to the prime minister.

Singh is the number two in the order of precedence of the council of ministers, as he was during the previous government. Shah, who has made a debut in the Cabinet, is the number three in the order of precedence.

However, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reconstituted eight Cabinet committees, with Shah being the only member of the Cabinet