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:
BJP
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
TDP
Ram Mohan Naidu
Chandrashekhar Pemmasani
JDU
Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh
Ramnath Thakur (son of Karpoori Thakur)
LJP
Chirag Paswan
HAM
Jitan Ram Manjhi
Shiv Sena
Pratap Rao Jadhav
RLD
Jayant Chaudhary
Apna Dal
Anupriya Patel
RPI
Ramdas Athawale
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