Published 16:00 IST, May 30th 2019
Here's the prospective list of NDA leaders who have received calls from BJP chief Amit Shah ahead of the Modi Cabinet's swearing-in
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to take the oath for the second consecutive term in office at the Forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 30 in the presence of over 8,000 guests from all across the world, all eyes are on who will be inducted into his new cabinet.
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to take the oath for the second consecutive term in office at the Forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 30 in the presence of over 8,000 guests from all across the world, all eyes are on who will be inducted into his new cabinet.
While there are speculations that a number of ministers will continue from the previous cabinet, there are also likely to be a lot of new inductees. Additionally, sources have also told Republic TV that NDA allies including JD(U) and LJP in Bihar, Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and Akali Dal in Punjab are set to get one ministerial berth each during PM Modi's swearing-in ceremony, with further berths to be decided in due course.
Also, ministers who will take the oath today will first be meeting Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi at 4:30 PM at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg ahead of the ceremony which is set to begin at 7 pm.
Meanwhile, a number of NDA leaders are said to have received phone calls from BJP chief Amit Shah inviting them to the residence of the Prime Minister for the meeting at 4:30 PM. Here are some of the leaders who will be attending, as per sources:
- Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bikaner MP
- Sadananda Gowda, Bengaluru North MP
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Rajnath Singh
- Prakash Javdekar, Rajya Sabha
- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Patna Sahib MP
- Suresh Angadi, Belgaum MP
- Babul Supriyo, Asansol MP
- Piyush Goyal, Rajya Sabha
- Nirmala Sitharaman, Rajya Sabha
- Dr Jitender Singh
- Ramdas Athavale
- Prahlad Joshi, Dharwad, Karnataka
- Anupriya Patel
- Smriti Irani, Amethi MP
- Nitin Gadkari, Nagpur MP
- Raveendranath, AIADMK, Theni MP
- Parshottam Rupala, Rajya Sabha
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rajya Sabha
- Kiren Rijiju, Arunachal West
- Mansukh Mandaviya, Palitana MP
- Rao Inderjit, Gurugram MP
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal
- Krishnapal Gurjar
- , Faridabad MP
- Anupriya Patel, Apna Dal
- Kailash Choudhary, Barmer MP
- Sanjeev Baliyan, Mujaffarnagar MP
- RCP Singh, JDU MP
- Nityanand Rai, Ujiyarpur MP
- Thawar Chand Gehlot, Shahjahanpur MP
- Debashree Chowdhury, Raiganj MP
- Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Haridwar MP
- Mansukh Vasava, Bharuch MP
- Rameshwar Teli, Dibrugarh MP
- Som Prakash, Hoshiarpur MP
- Santosh Gangwar
The National Democratic Alliance-led by PM Modi won a landslide victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by securing 353 seats out of 542 that went to polls.
The swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be of about 90 minutes and will be attended by an estimated over 8,000 guests, including leaders of all BIMSTEC countries.
14:07 IST, May 30th 2019