Modi Cabinet 3.0: Gadkari, Jaishankar, Goyal Likely To Return

The next government at the Centre will Narendra Modi is set to take oath of office and secrecy for the third time as the Prime Minister of India on Sunday. With dignitaries from neighbouring nations and Indian Ocean in attendance, the names of the new Cabinet will be announced today.

Around 50 names are doing the rounds as tentative new Cabinet members, as per NDTV. Probable contenders for the posts see two posts each going to Chandrababu Naidu's TDP and Nitish Kumar's JDU. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party or its allies in the National Democratic Alliance are yet to make any official announcement on the matter so far.

Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Jitendra Singh, Rao Indrajit Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya, Kiran Rijiju, Sarbananda Sonowal, Nirmala Sitharaman, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Anupriya Patel, Hardeep Puri, Dharmendra Pradhan are names that are likely to get a third stint as Cabinet ministers.

S jaishankar, Jyotiraditya Scindia, JP Nadda are also likely to be part of the new government. Nadda, who held the health portfolio in the first Modi government, had succeeded Amit Shah as the BJP chief in the second term of the government. His tenure as the party supremo was set to end in September 2022, but was extended in view of the Lok Sabha elections.

Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur and Rajeev Chandrasekhar are likely to be denied a berth in the Modi 3.0 Cabinet.

This will also be the largest Cabinet since Atal Bihar Vajpayee-led NDA coalition government in 1998.

Here's a look at possible names that made the cut:

• Amit Shah

• Nitin Gadkari

• Rajnath Singh

• Ashwini Vaishnav

• Jyotiraditya Scindia

• S Jaishankar

• Piyush Goyal

• JP Nadda

• Arjun Ram Meghwal

• Nityanand Rai

• Mansukh Mandaviya

• Prahlad Joshi

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan

• BL Verma

• Shobha Karandlaje

• Sarbananda Sonowal

• Raksha Khadse

• Jitendra Singh

• Kiren Rijiju

• Rao Indrajit Singh

• Shantanu Thakur

• Bandi Sanjay

• G Kishan Reddy

• Hardeep Singh Puri

• Ravneet Singh Bittu

• Annapurna Devi

• Jitin Prasada

• Manohar Lal Khattar

• Harsh Malhotra

• Ajay Tamta

• Dharmendra Pradhan

• Nirmala Sitharaman

• Savitri Thakur

• Muralidhar Mohan

• CR Patil

• Shripad Naik

• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

• Giriraj Singh

• Krishanpal Gurjar

• Ram Mohan Naidu

• Chandrashekhar Pemmasani

• Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh

• Ramnath Thakur (son of Karpoori Thakur)

• Chirag Paswan

• Jitan Ram Manjhi

• Shiv Sena

• Pratap Rao Jadhav

• Jayant Chaudhary

• Anupriya Patel

• Ramdas Athawale