The India Directory

On photos. The PM's photo above is his official portrait from pmindia.gov.in. For everyone else, sourcing a stable, hotlink-safe photo URL for each minister isn't something I can do reliably at scale — official sites and Wikipedia don't expose plain image links the way this tool can fetch — so the seal shows initials instead of risking a broken or mismatched photo. Happy to keep filling these in a few at a time if useful.

On this list. This covers the Prime Minister and the senior cabinet portfolios most relevant to a general directory — Home, Finance, Defence, External Affairs, and similar. It is not the full 70‑plus member Council of Ministers. Portfolios shift with reshuffles — Pralhad Joshi, for instance, took over Education from Dharmendra Pradhan on 25 July 2026 following the NEET‑UG controversy. For the authoritative, current list, see the Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers on pmindia.gov.in.

128 of 543 seats covered so far — Uttar Pradesh (80) and Maharashtra (48), both sourced from Wikipedia's official 2024 election-results tables and cross-checked against vote margins. The remaining 415 seats across 34 states and union territories are queued in data/mps-pending.json with a source link for each — every large-scale MP data source turned out to have its own quirks (broken pagination, blocked robots.txt, inconsistent table markup), so each state needs individual verification rather than one bulk pull. See the README for how this gets extended.