Modi Sarkar 2.0 formation: Day ahead of swearing-in, PM meets Arun Jaitley | Live Updates

Just a day ahead of the swearing-in ceremony, PM Modi reaches Arun Jaitley's residence.

Ravishankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan, Prakash Javadekar have received calls from Prime Minister’s Office for swearing in tomorrow.

PM Modi will be visiting Arun Jaitley's home at 8:30 pm in Delhi. PM is likely to ask Arun Jaitley to reconsider his earlier decision and remain in Government. 

Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi where he expressed his inability to take up a ministerial post citing "serious health challenges." This is unprecedented as Arun Jaitley has himself requested the Prime Minister and requested for a "reasonable time" to recover from his illness. 

Congress President Rahul Gandhi to also attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath ceremony tomorrow.

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Ghulam Nabi Azad to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath ceremony tomorrow.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Jitender Singh, Prakash Javadekar, Mahesh Sharma, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Kiren Rijiju, Smriti Irani, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Jayant Sinha, Arjun Meghwal, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Ramkripal Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Lallan Singh, Ramchandra Singh, Anupriya Patel, Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Nirmala Sitharaman, second female defence minister of India, has been serving for the ministry since 2017. Now it is expected that Sitharaman will be made the Lok Sabha Speaker, presently held by Sumitra Mahajan. Sitharaman has served as the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Finance and the Minister for Commerce and Industry with independent charge. Prior to that, she has served as a national spokesperson for the BJP.

Having worked for five years as the BJP President, Amit Shah is now likely to be the Home Minister, replacing Rajnath Singh. Shah was MP of the Rajya Sabha from 2017 to 2019, the indirectly elected body of Parliament, co-representing Gujarat from which he resigned in Spring 2019 to contest the Gandhinagar seat in Gujarat in the directly elected, larger body of the Union Government, the Lok Sabha. He won the 15th contest for the seat in its public vote, a seat created in 1967, with 69.3% of the votes cast.

Having served as Home Minister for five years, it is likely that Rajnath Singh will now be given the charge of Defence Ministry. 

West Bengal Chief Minister will not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony tomorrow.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath-taking ceremony on May 30. 

Five Congress leaders, including Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, met Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) for reshuffling the cabinet to quell dissidence in the party and ensure the continuation of their year-old coalition government, a party official said on Wednesday.

"Our party leaders met Kumaraswamy at the state-run Kumarakrupa guest house in the city to discuss a cabinet reshuffle and ensure the continuation of the government," Congress spokesman Ravi Gowda said.

Besides Parameshwara, the party's state unit in-charge K.C. Venugopal, allies coordination committee chairman Siddaramaiah, state Home Minister M.B. Patil and state Water Resources Minister D.K. Shivakumar participated in the meeting.

"The outcome of the meeting will be discussed at the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting later in the day here to ensure all the legislators remain united to run the coalition government smoothly in the face of electoral setback in the recent Lok Sabha elections," said Gowda.

The Congress and the JD-S were routed by the BJP in the 28 parliamentary constituencies in the southern state. The BJP won 25 as against one each by the two parties.

The Samajwadi Party is preparing for a major revamp even as rumbling of dissent begin to emerge from the ranks following its poor performance in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav held a series of meetings over the past two days in the presence of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The senior Yadav is said to have told Akhilesh Yadav to make the party more broad-based instead of focusing only on backward castes.

The national Secretary of the Samajwadi Lohia Vahini, Shravan Kumar Tyagi, has posted an open letter to Akhilesh Yadav on the social media, asking him to get rid of sycophants and sideline those leaders who misbehave with party workers.

"The party office is filled with leaders who cannot even get 10 votes on their own," the SP leader wrote.

Meanwhile, two of the newly elected SP MPs have also blamed the alliance with the BSP for the party's defeat.

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath holds a meeting with a farmers' delegation in Bhopal.

Bengaluru: Meeting of Congress leaders underway

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on his oath-taking. 

Delhi Pradesh Congress leaders to meet party President Rahul Gandhi later today

Naveen Patnaik takes oath as the Chief Minister of Odisha for a fifth time.

Midnapore: Kin of BJP workers (who were killed in West Bengal in political violence) invited to the swearing-in ceremony of PM Narendra Modi. 

Bihar: RJD MLAs and MLCs to meet later today at Rabri Devi's residence in Patna.

Meeting will be chaired by Tejashwi Yadav. 

I think Vidhan Sabha elections will be held within 6 months to 1 year in West Bengal. The current govt will not be able to continue till 2021. There is a lot of dissatisfaction in TMC. The TMC govt is being run by police and CID pressure: Rahul Sinha, BJP National Secretary

Nearly a week after facing rout in the Lok Sabha elections, the Karnataka Congress legislators (MLAs) are meeting in Bengaluru on Wednesday to ensure the continuation of their year-old coalition government with the Janata Dal (Secular) as its ally, a party official said on Tuesday.

"The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) is meeting at a star hotel in the city on Wednesday in the presence of our senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and party's state unit in-charge K.C. Venugopal to review the poll results and stay united to sustain the government with the JD-S as our partner," party spokesman K.E. Radhakrishna said. 

The Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee will meet on Wednesday at party headquarters, a party spokesperson said. 

The meeting will be presided by the Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot in which AICC general secretary Avinash Pandey and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will also be present, he said. 

It will be the first executive committee meeting after the party's debacle in Lok Sabha polls wherein Congress could not win even a single seat out of the 25 parliamentary constituencies in the state. 

Party leaders said that the meeting will brainstorm on the reasons of party's poor performance in the recent polls.