Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set forth to be sworn in for his third consecutive term today at 7:15 pm at Rahstrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. As per the sources, along with PM Modi, 30 other ministers will be sworn in initially.
Narendra Modi will be equaling the feat of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru who has won in 1952, 1957 and 1962 general elections.
The following are the list of leaders who received invitation from Prime Minister and are more likely to take oath today as the cabinet ministers.
1.Rajnath Singh
2.Nitin Gadkari
3.Amit Shah
4.Nirmala Sitharaman
5.Ashwini Vaishnaw
6.Piyush Goel
7.Mansukh Mandaviya
8.Arjun Meghwal
9.Shivraj Singh Chauhan
10.Bhupender Yadav
11.Suresh Gopi
12.Manohar Khattar
13.Sarvanda Sonowal
14.kiren Rijiju
15.Rao Inderjeet
16.Jitendra Singh
17.Kamaljeet Sehrawat
18.Raksha Khadse
19.G Kishan Reddy
20.Hardeep Puri
21.Giriraj Singh
22.Nityanand Rai
23.Bandi Sanjay Kumar
24.Savitri Thakur
25,Verma
26.Annapurna Devi
27.Ravneet Singh Bittu
28.Shobha Karandjale
29.Harsh Malhotra
30.Jitin Prasada
31.Bhagirath Chaudhary
32. Patil
33.Ajay Tamta
34.Dharmendra Pradhan
35.Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
36.S Jaishankar
37.Shantanu Thakur
38.Jyotiraditya scindia
39.Shripad Naik
40.Prahlad Joshi
41.Krishna Pal Gujjar
42.Sukanta Majumder
43.Kamlesh Paswan
44.L Murugan
45.Jual Oram
46.Virendra Kumar
47.SPS Baghel
48.V Somanna
49.Kurien
50.Sanjay Seth
51.Satish Dubey
52.Raj Bhushan Nishad
53.Durga Das Uikey
The total number of council members is expected to be ranging between 78 and 81. Ahead of the grand ceremony, the names of the anticipated cabinet members are going around with the claim to get a birth in the newly formed government. And all eyes are on new MPs who will make the final cut into the cabinet.
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Defying the exit polls that predicted a clean sweep for BJP with 300-400 seats, the saffron party far from its ‘400 paar’ only won 240 short of 32 seats required to the majority. Thus the party had to depend on its allies to form the government and therefore the allies in return are seeking lucrative ministerial posts for their parties.
As per the earlier Economic Time report, Ravneet Singh Bhittu, and Ramnath Thakur from JD(U) will be taking oath as a minister in the oath-taking ceremony.
Former Karnataka CM and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy and yet another two leaders from the state of Karnataka are expected to be sworn in as ministers today.
As per the reports, the ministerial berths are expected to go to JD(U) MP Lalan Singh, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Sunil Kumar and Kaushalendra Kumar.
The BJP leaders Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari are likely to be retained as ministers in the Modi 3.0 cabinet. As per the News 18 report, Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, the TDP winner from Srikakulam, and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, are likely to make the cut.
The other BJP leaders to be included are DK Aruna, D Arvind, Basavaraj Bommai, Biplab Dev, Suresh Gopi, Piyush Goyal, Prataprao Jadhav, Sanjay Jaiswal, Pralhad Joshi, Govind Karjol, PC Mohan, Bijuli Kalita Medhi, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jitin Prasad, Daggubati Purandeswari, Nityanand Rai, Eatala Rajender, Kishan Reddy, Kiren Rijiju, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Manmohan Samal, Bandi Sanjay, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Dushyant Singh, Jitendra Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Shantanu Thakur and Shivraj Singh Chauhan.
Other alliance partners likely to get berths include Chirag Paswan, Anupriya Patel, chief of Apna Dal Party; Jayant Chaudhary, chief of Rashtriya Lok Dal; and Jitan Ram Manjhi, chief of the Hindustani Awam Morcha.