The five-member Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth includes Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Road Transport and Highways and of MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.

Five Dalit candidates of the BJP had won from Karnataka in the recent Lok Sabha elections.

The prime minister would decide on the various cabinet committees such as Cabinet Committee on Security, Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs and Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.

The induction of Jaishankar as a Cabinet minister at a juncture when Sino-US relations are getting more complex, especially on trade and cyber-security, is an interesting choice.