New Delhi: A small and compact cabinet under Narendra Modi is set to be sworn in Monday, with BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, and Sushma Swaraj likely to get the top posts, according to party sources.
The cabinet is expected to be compact, and restructuring is expected in the government with some ministries likely to be merged.
List of ministerial probables:
Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Sadananda Gowda , Sushma Swaraj, M Venkaiah Naidu, Uma Bharti, Najma Heptullah, Gopinath Munde, Ram Vilas Paswan, Kalraj Mishra, Maneka Gandhi, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Anant Geete, Maneka Gandhi, Ananth Kumar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Narendra Singh Tomar, Jual Oram, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Smriti Irani, Radha Mohan Singh, Harsh Vardhan
Independent charge:
Gen (retd.) VK Singh, Santosh Gangwar, Rao Inderjit Singh, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goel, Jitendra Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman
Minister of State:
GM Siddeshwara, Manoj Sinha, Upendra Kushwaha, P Radhakrishnan, Kirron Kher, KP Gujjar, Dr Sanjeev Baliyan, Mansukhbhai Vasava, Raosaheb Dadarao Danve, Vishnu Deo Sai, Sudarshan Bhagat