Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi will meet his probable Cabinet ministers and MPs over a cuppa ahead of the oath-taking ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan at 7:15 pm. Most new joinees of the Modi 3.0 Cabinet, including Rajnath Singh, and Nitin Gadkari, have already started getting calls.
All MPs, who will take the oath of office along with Narendra Modi, have been invited to Modi’s residence for tea at 11:30 am.
According to sources, over a dozen BJP MPs have been named in the council of ministers’ list and another dozen are from the allies.
| LEADER | PARTY |
| Rajnath Singh | BJP |
| Nitin Gadkari | BJP |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal | BJP |
| Chirag Paswan | LJP |
| HD Kumaraswamy | JD(S) |
| Sarbananda Sonowal | BJP |
| Pralhad Joshi | BJP |
| Shivraj Singh Chouhan | BJP |
| Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani | TDP |
| Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu | TDP |
| Ramnath Thakur | JD(U) |
| Lalan Singh | JD(U) |
| Pratap Rao Jadhav | Shiv Sena |
| K Annamalai | BJP |
| Amit Shah | BJP |
| Jyotiraditya Scindia | BJP |
| ML Khattar | BJP |
| Chandrashekhar Choudhary | AJSU |
| Jayant Chaudhary | RJD |
| Mansukh Mandaviya | BJP |
| Ashwini Vaishnaw | BJP |
| Piyush Goyal | BJP |
| Kiren Rijiju | BJP |
| Raksha Khadse | BJP |
| Kamaljeet Sehrawat | BJP |
| Rao Inderjit Singh | BJP |
| Ramdas Athawale | Republican Party of India |
| Jitan Ram Manjhi | Hindustani Awam Morcha |
| Giriraj Singh | BJP |
| Bandi Sanjay | BJP |
| Suresh Gopi | BJP |
| G Kishan Reddy | BJP |
| Shobha Karandlaje | BJP |
| Harsh Malhotra | BJP |
According to sources, Rajnath Singh, the senior BJP leader who won from the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, is likely to continue as the Union Defence Minister.
Meanwhile, sources said Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena will not be a part of the NDA government.
The saffron party is likely to select new faces for the NDA government’s Cabinet as around 20 of its former ministers have lost in the Lok Sabha polls and new Rajya Sabha vacancies won’t be available soon.